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Abraham Albert Heaps (1885-1954)

Abraham Albert Heaps (1885-1954) is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Manitoba · 254 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg · location approximate

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Abraham Albert Heaps, Canadian labour leader, alderman, and parliamentarian, was born to Jewish parents in Leeds, England. He learned the upholstering trade and immigrated to Canada in 1910. In Winnipeg, he became the Upholsterer's Union delegate to and statistician for the Trades and Labour Council, and secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, the trades unionists' political organization. As a leader of the 1919 General Strike, Heaps was charged with seditious conspiracy and arrested. After pleading his own cause he was acquitted at a dramatic trial. Heaps served as a labour and social democratic alderman for North End wards, 1917-25. He was the Manitoba Independent Labour Party and then Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MP for Winnipeg North, 1925-40. Heaps was influential in the establishment of progressive social legislation in Canada including old age pensions and unemployment insurance.

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Abraham Albert Heaps, chef travailliste canadien, échevin et député, naquit de parents juifs à Leeds, en Angleterre. Après avoir appris le métier de tapissier en ameublement, il s'installa au Canada en 1910. À Winnipeg, il fut choisi comme délégué du syndicat des tapissiers au Conseil du Travail et du Commerce où il remplit la fonction de statisticien; il devint ensuite secrétaire du Comité de représentation travailliste, l'organisme politique des ouvriers syndiqués. L'un des organisateurs de la grève générale de 1919, Heaps fut accusé de conspiration séditieuse et arrêté. Il plaida sa propre cause au cours d'un procès émouvant et fut acquitté. De 1917 à 1925, Heaps exerça la fonction d'échevin sous l'étiquette sociale démocratique et travailliste pour le district du North-end de Winnipeg. Puis, de 1925 à 1940, il siégea au Parlement ou il représenta la circonscription de Winnipeg-Nord sous l'égide du parti travailliste indépendant du Manitoba, puis du parti social démocratique.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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