Author: Woodsworth, James S. [Shaver]
Title: Strangers Within Our Gates, or Coming Canadians
Description: Toronto, F. C. Stephenson, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 331. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and b&w pastedown photo to front board. Many tables, photos, illustrations, etc. Edgewear, bookplate and ink notation to front endpaper, one page sliced out and laid-in, and showing paperclip indent and rust, some ink underlines and ticks to margins. "Observing the grim results of industrial capitalism in Canada and Britain, Woodsworth concluded that his church's stress upon personal salvation was wrong. Moving from middle-class pulpits to a city mission, All People's, Winnipeg, he worked with immigrant slum dwellers 1904-13.. By 1914 he had become a controversial supporter of trade-union collective bargaining and an ardent democratic socialist - on Fabian and British Labour Party lines. He was also adamantly pacifist, seeing war as a product of capitalist and imperial competition, and he was fired from a governmental social-research position in 1917 for openly opposing conscription." - Canadian Encyclopedia. Despite his then-progressive stance, through a 21st century lens, the ideas and terminology herein are difficult to read; as such this is an important, neglected, piece of Canadian history. Introduction by J. W. Sparling; Author's Preface.The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Canada; The Young People's Forward Movement Department Text-Book No. 5. Scarce. Peel 3353. .

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