1. Moses Michael Coady was a Roman Catholic priest, adult educator and co-operative entrepreneur best known for his instrumental role in the Antigonish Movement.
19 Facts About Moses Coady
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Moses Coady determined he would get a good education so he could help people make their farms more profitable and give them a reason to stay on the land.
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Moses Coady would draw on an unusual combination of gifts, having 'the soul of a poet' and 'the mind of a mathematician'.
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Moses Coady followed Tompkins to Rome, where he studied theology and philosophy.
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Moses Coady lived in Havre Boucher during the early 1900s and served as the communities Parish Priest for 8 years.
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Moses Coady is accounted for on the 1903 Census as Moses Codie.
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Moses Coady put on special classes for students at risk of failing, and prided himself on being able to teach maths to anyone.
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Moses Coady honed his considerable oratorical skills and developed a talent for making complex concepts easily understood.
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The defining moment in Moses Coady's career came when he testified before a Canadian government commission in 1927.
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The Canadian Department of Fisheries asked Moses Coady to help the government "organize the fishermen".
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Moses Coady invested considerable energy in catalyzing and strengthening wholesale co-operatives around the Maritimes: including the United Maritime Fishermen, the United Fruit Companies of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Livestock Co-operatives.
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Moses Coady was featured on a national radio program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on co-operatives in 1940.
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In 1949 Moses Coady was asked to address the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
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Moses Coady argued that environmental problems stemmed from ignorance of science, concentration of rural land ownership in the hands of a few, and exploitation of land primarily for profit.
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Moses Coady was 70, and would continue to work nationally and internationally as Director Emeritus of the Extension Department, now with 25 staff, until his death.
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Moses Coady's only book, Masters of Their Own Destiny, was an expression of the philosophy of the movement.
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Moses Coady writes that although Coady tried to mask his feelings behind a veneer of faith in democracy and ordinary people, the veneer wore thin later in his life, and Coady's faith in others was replaced by a sense of betrayal and a tendency towards manipulation.
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The Rev Alexandre Boudreau, a co-operative leader from the region of Cheticamp in Cape Breton claimed that Moses Coady kept Acadians out of important positions in the Antigonish Movement.
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Moses Coady was radical enough in other words to be progressive, and, conservative enough to be sane.