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Biography of Thomas Alexander Crerar
Name: Thomas Alexander Crerar
Birth Date: June 17, 1876
Death Date: April 11, 1975
Place of Birth: Molesworth, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupations: political leader
Thomas Alexander Crerar
Thomas Alexander Crerar (1876-1975) was a Canadian political leader who, using farmers' organizations as a power base, represented the Western point of view in Canada's government.Thomas Alexander Crerar was born at Molesworth, Ontario, on June 17, 1876. The family moved west to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, where Crerar was educated. After a stint of teaching in small rural schools, he turned to wheat farming and eventually to grain buying.In 1907 Crerar became president of the Grain Growers Grain Company, a farmers' organization that had been established to fight the railway monopolies and the Eastern-controlled elevator companies. The Grain Growers quickly established a position of power, and Crerar, who was president until 1929, acquired a reputation as an articulate spokesman for the Western point of view.Inevitably he was drawn into politics. During World War I Sir Robert Borden formed a Union government to ram conscription through Parliament. Crerar was one of several outsiders …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…few years, but its strength was broken.Returning to Parliament as a Liberal in 1935, Crerar entered the Cabinet of Mackenzie King as minister of immigration and minister of the interior. In 1936 he became minister of mines and resources, a portfolio he held until 1945. In this department Crerar played an important part in mobilizing Canadian industry for war, and he was always the leading spokesman for Manitoba in the government. Just before the end of World War II, Crerar was appointed to the Senate, where he remained as vigorous and outspoken as ever until his retirement in 1966 at the age of 90. Thomas Crerar died on April 11, 1975. Further Reading There is no biography of Crerar. The best book on the Progressive party is W. L. Morton, The Progressive Party in Canada (1950). Also important are Ramsay Cook, ed., The Dafoe-Sifton Correspondence, 1919-1927 (1966) and his The Politics of John W. Dafoe and the Free Press (1963).
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