Radical journalist.
Born in Wrigley Corners, Upper Canada, he was raised near Galt and became a teacher, then a school principal. He entered journalism and in 1886 founded the Canada Labour Courier, which was associated with the Knights of Labor. In 1892, convinced that farmers and workers had a common goal, he created the Canada Farmers’ Sun. He founded one more paper, Citizen and Country, which was taken over by his son. Wrigley moved to Vancouver Island in 1902 to become a labour organizer and a socialist journalist. A series of strokes in 1904 led him to retire to Winnipeg, where a son had a business. He died there a few years later.
More information:
George Weston Wrigley, Dictionary of Canadian Biography XIII, 1,111-15.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
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