A. A. Heaps, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

A. A. Heaps

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1885

Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1954

Profession: politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About A. A. Heaps

  • Abraham Albert Heaps (December 24, 1885 – April 4, 1954), known as A.
  • A.
  • Heaps, was a Canadian politician and labour leader.
  • A strong labourite, he served as MP for Winnipeg North from 1925 to 1940. Born in Leeds, England, Heaps emigrated to Canada in 1911 and worked in Winnipeg as an upholsterer.
  • He was one of the leaders of the Winnipeg general strike of 1919 and was a Labour alderman on the Winnipeg City Council from 1917 to 1925.
  • He ran for the House of Commons of Canada as a Labour candidate in 1923 in the riding of Winnipeg North but was defeated.
  • He was elected in the 1925 election and joined J.
  • S.
  • Woodsworth as the only Labour MPs in Parliament.
  • The Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie King was elected with a minority government.
  • Heaps and Woodsworth agreed to support the Liberals in exchange for the government creating Canada's first old age pension.
  • Heaps and Woodsworth joined other left-wing MPs to form the Ginger Group. He was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1932, and was a charter member of the CCF's caucus. One of the few Jews in Parliament, Heaps pushed the government to allow Jewish refugees from the Nazis into Canada, but with little success.
  • He was defeated in the 1940 election by Charles Stephen Booth from the Liberal Party due to a strong candidacy in Winnipeg North by the Communist Party's candidate. Heaps died in England while visiting family and was buried in his birthplace of Leeds. His son, Leo Heaps, wrote a 1984 biography about him called The Rebel in the House: The Life and Times of A.A.
  • Heaps MP and was an unsuccessful New Democratic Party candidate in the 1979 federal election for the riding of Eglinton—Lawrence.
  • His grandson, Adrian Heaps, was elected to Toronto City Council in 2006.

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