28 Facts About Ted Jolliffe

Edward Bigelow Jolliffe was a Canadian social democratic politician and lawyer from Ontario.

Ted Jolliffe was the first leader of the Ontario section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and leader of the Official Opposition in the Ontario Legislature during the 1940s and 1950s.

Ted Jolliffe was a Rhodes Scholar in the mid-1930s, and came back to Canada to help the CCF, after his studies were complete and being called to the bar in England and Ontario.

Ted Jolliffe was born at the Canadian Missionary hospital in Luchow, near Chunking on March 2,1909.

Ted Jolliffe was home-schooled in China by his mother until his early teens.

Ted Jolliffe was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto's Victoria College, the United Church College.

Ted Jolliffe became the head of the Victoria Student Council, and was a member of the Hart House Debates Committee.

Ted Jolliffe attended Christ Church, Oxford University for three years.

Ted Jolliffe helped form an overseas branch of the CCF at Oxford that year.

Ted Jolliffe was called to the bar in England, and was the first Canadian to win the Arden scholarship.

When Ted Jolliffe permanently returned from Oxford, he worked as the CCF's Ontario organizer and was called to the bar in Ontario and practised law in Toronto from 1938 onwards.

Ted Jolliffe was a candidate in the 1935 Canadian election in the Toronto riding of St Paul's, placing fourth.

Ted Jolliffe ran again in the 1940 federal election, this time in the York East electoral district.

Ted Jolliffe became the first leader of the Ontario CCF in 1942.

Ted Jolliffe won the York South seat, and became its Member of Provincial Parliament.

Ted Jolliffe's office was supposed to be investigating war-time 5th column saboteurs.

The fact that Ted Jolliffe knew about these 'secret' investigations as early as February 1944 led to one of the most infamous incidents in 20th-century Canadian politics.

Ted Jolliffe replied by giving a radio speech that accused Drew of running a political Gestapo in Ontario.

Ted Jolliffe's CCF went from 34 seats to 8, but almost garnering the same number of actual votes cast, though their percentage of the popular vote dropped from 32 to 22 percent.

Ted Jolliffe lost the election but did better than any other CCF candidate in Toronto or in the outlying Yorks.

Ted Jolliffe's motives regarding his accusations, as well as his choice of words, would be questioned for many years afterwards.

Ted Jolliffe again became Leader of the Opposition in Ontario and Member of Provincial Parliament for York South.

Ted Jolliffe lost his own seat and resigned as party leader in August 1953 in order to focus on his law practice.

Ted Jolliffe returned to his previous career as a labour lawyer, founding the firm Jolliffe, Lewis and Osler with fellow CCF activist and future New Democratic Party leader, David Lewis in 1945.

Ted Jolliffe then became active as a labour arbitrator until his retirement.

Ted Jolliffe was the first social democratic leader of the opposition in Ontario's Legislature in 1943.

Ted Jolliffe lived long enough to see Bob Rae and the NDP form the Ontario government in September 1990.

Ted Jolliffe died on March 18,1998, in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.