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The Antigonish Movement blended adult education, co-operatives, microfinance and rural community development to help small, resource-based communities around Canada's Maritimes to improve their economic and social circumstances. A group of priests and educators, including Father Jimmy Tompkins, Father Moses Coady, Rev. Hugh MacPherson and A.B. MacDonald led this movement from a base at the Extension Department at St. Francis Xavier University (St. F.X.) in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

The credit union systems of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI owe their origins to the Antigonish Movement, which also had an important influence on other provincial systems across Canada. The Coady International Institute at St. F.X. has been instrumental in developing credit unions and in asset-based community development initiatives in developing countries ever since.

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Antigonish Movement

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The Antigonish Movement blended adult education, co-operatives, microfinance and rural community development to help small, resource-based communities...

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Antigonish County

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Antigonish County is a historical county and census division of Nova Scotia, Canada. Local government is provided by the Municipality of the County of...

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Moses Coady

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co-operative entrepreneur best known for his instrumental role in the Antigonish Movement. Credited with introducing "an entirely new organizational technique:...

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Participatory rural appraisal

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methods such as those of Paulo Freire and the study clubs of the Antigonish Movement. In this view, an actively involved and empowered local population...

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UNI Financial Cooperation

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Brunswick Credit Union League, created in 1938 as part of the popular Antigonish Movement, was divided into two separate entities. Factors that may[weasel words]...

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Pandurang Shastri Athavale

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spirit of collective, divine labour (bhakti), somewhat similar to the Antigonish Movement in Canada. Swadhyayees aim to fulfill Athavale's vision of eradicating...

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Community development

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development of co-operatives, credit unions and caisses populaires. The Antigonish Movement which started in the 1920s in Nova Scotia, through the work of Doctor...

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish

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Prior to the outbreak of the First World War, the highly influential Antigonish Movement, which combined adult education, co-operatives, microfinance and...

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History of Nova Scotia

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programs that required matching contributions from the provinces. The Antigonish Movement emerged offering a "middle way" to helping people distressed hit...

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Reserve Mines

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Sydney Airport is located in the western part of the community. The Antigonish Movement aided Reserve Mines in the mid-1930s when Father Jimmy Tompkins,...

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List of people from Cape Breton

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Moses Coady, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University Moses E. Kiley, Roman Catholic archbishop...

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Andrew Hogan

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where he became involved in the co-operative movement. St. F.X. was the home of the Antigonish Movement, started by Father Jimmy Tompkins and Rev. Dr...

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History of credit unions

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the other Anglophone provinces. The development tools used by the Antigonish Movement led by Coady injected a much stronger populist tone in credit union...

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History of cooperatives in Canada

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cooperatives in particular the credit unions gained huge support from the Antigonish movement through Jimmy Tompkins. In 1931 he made Roy Bergengren of the Credit...

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Higher education in Nova Scotia

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economic organization for disadvantaged groups in eastern Canada." The Antigonish Movement gave momentum to these programs, which reached out to the community...

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John Lorne Campbell

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Moses Coady, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Antigonish and the founder of the Antigonish Movement. Campbell was later to praise Fr. Coady's ideas...

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Events of National Historic Significance

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Slave River Rapids 1789, 1880s, 1940s Fort Smith, NT 1969 Antigonish Movement 1928 Antigonish, NS 1981 Siege of Quebec in 1775 1775–1776 Quebec, QC 1984...

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Mary Ellicott Arnold

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mining community establish cooperative housing. Arnold conferred with Antigonish Movement elders Moses Coady and Father Jimmy and she and Reed lived among...

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Canadian Credit Union Association

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Manitoba SaskCentral (represents credit unions in Saskatchewan) Antigonish Movement Desjardins Group Humanomics Ian MacPherson (historian) "About Us"...

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Jake Siemens

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to form study clubs similar to those that were organized by the Antigonish Movement and Moses Coady. And he was active in starting up the Winkler Co-op...

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45th Canadian federal election

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62.68% 12,342 20,634 5,104 – – 2,133 – – 40,213 NS Cape Breton—Canso—Antigonish Lib 19,259 45.43% 4,377 10.33% Con NDP 67.31% 19,259 14,882 6,252 – 206...

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Peter MacKay

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degree from Dalhousie University. MacKay represented the riding of Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough from 1997 to 2004, and the riding of Central Nova from 2004...

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