Members of the Executive Council of Saskatchewan

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Attorneys-General of Saskatchewan, Premiers of Saskatchewan, List of premiers of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas, Thomas Walter Scott, Eric Cline, Charles Avery Dunning, Colin Thatcher, Brad Wall, W. Ross Thatcher, William John Patterson, Allan Blakeney, George Hara Williams, Grant Devine, Roy Romanow, James Garfield Gardiner, Lorne Calvert, Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, William Melville Martin, James Thomas Milton Anderson, Ron Osika, William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon, Chris Axworthy, David Steuart, E. M. Culliton, John Hewgill Brockelbank, John Archibald Maharg, John Henderson Lamont, Don Morgan, Joanne Crofford, Archibald Peter McNab, Janice MacKinnon, Frank Quennell, John Michael Uhrich, Thomas John Bentley, Jim Melenchuk, James Wilfred Estey, Robert Alexander Walker, Reginald John Marsden Parker, Maynard Sonntag, Cliff McIsaac, Premier of Saskatchewan. Excerpt: Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC, CC, SOM (20 October 1904 - 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social-democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first social-democratic government in North America and introduced single-payer health care to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, Douglas was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971. Tommy Douglas was born in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1904, the son of Annie (née Clement) and Thomas Douglas, an iron moulder who fought in the Boer War. In 1910, his family immigrated to Canada, where they settled in Winnipeg. Just before he left Scotland, Douglas fell and injured his right knee. Osteomyelitis set in and he underwent a number of operations in Scotland in an attempt to cure the condition. Later however, in Winnipeg, the osteomyelitis flared up again and Douglas was sent to hospital. Doctors there told his parents his leg would have to be amputated. Fortunately, a well-known orthopedic surgeon took an interest in his case and agreed to treat the boy for free if his parents would allow medical students to observe. After several operations, Douglas's leg was saved. This experience convinced him that health care should be free to all. "I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside", Douglas told an interviewer many years later. During World War I, the family returned to Glasgow. They came back to Winnipeg in 1919, in time for Douglas to witness the Winnipeg General Strike. From a rooftop vantage point on Main Street, he witnessed the police charging the strikers with clubs and guns, a streetcar being overturned and set on fire. He