E.C. Drury: Agrarian Idealist

by Charles Johnston and Charles M. Johnston

Book Overview

In a fiercely fought provincial election in 1919, a new political movement came to power in Ontario. The victorious party was the United Farmers of Ontario. Its leader, Ernest Charles Drury (1878-1968), became the province's eighth premier.

Idealistic agrarian reformer, staunch temperance man, free-trade advocate, Simcoe County 'yeoman, ' and progressive populist, Drury was a man of the people and of the land, inevitably tagged the Farmer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487592086
• ISBN13: 9781487592080
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher