Description
During the Great Depression, Moses Coady, a priest and an educator, set out to rescue people from poverty, dependency and despair.
Based at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Coady and his followers laid the foundations for the co-operative and credit union movements that now play a significant role in the social and economic life of people around the world.
Moses Coady, Canada's Rural Revolutionary tells the story of this genuine Canadian hero and his remarkable legacy known as The Antigonish Movement — an innovative experiment in community development that applied Catholic social teaching to rural economics in order to enable a more just and humane society.
Includes 8 pages of archival photographs.
About the author
Jim Lotz is an acclaimed interpreter of the life and work of Moses Coady. His over 25 books include Canada's Forgotten Arctic Hero: George Rice and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, 1881-1884, Cape Breton Island (with his wife Pat), Father Jimmy: Life and Times of Jimmy Tompkins (with Michael R. Welton), and Jim's autobiography called Sharing the Journey. In 2006, Pat developed dementia. Jim nursed her with unfailing love and patience until her death in 2012, then wrote Pilgrim Souls to help others treading the same path.