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Kenneth Bryden was born on 9 April, 1916, is a Canadian politician. Discover Kenneth Bryden's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
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Born 9 April, 1916
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Date of death 17 December, 2001
Died Place Toronto, Ontario
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1916

Walter Kenneth (Ken) Bryden (April 9, 1916 – December 17, 2001) was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation/NDP member of the Ontario legislature from 1959 to 1967, an economist, academic, civil servant and author.

Bryden was one of two sons born to Walter Bryden, a Presbyterian minister and theologian, and his wife, Violet Naismith Bannatyine.

1937

He grew up in Ontario and Saskatchewan and earned a BA (1937), MA (1940) and PhD (1969) from the University of Toronto as well as a BA from Oxford University in 1939.

An economist by training, Bryden worked for the federal Department of Labour during World War II.

He was an early supporter and strategist for the CCF federally, in Ontario and Saskatchewan.

1944

Following the election of the first CCF government in North America, in Saskatchewan, in 1944, Saskatchewan CCF Premier Tommy Douglas appointed Bryden deputy minister of labour.

Bryden drafted most of the province's labour laws which American union organizer Walter Reuther called the most advanced legislation in all of North America.

1949

In 1949, he moved to Ontario to become first director of research for the party's caucus in the Ontario legislature and became the party's provincial secretary in 1951.

1959

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1959 provincial election representing the riding of Woodbine in Toronto's east end and became deputy leader of the party under Donald C. MacDonald.

1961

Bryden was one of the forces behind the creation of the New Democratic Party of Canada in 1961.

as a merger of the CCF and the Canadian Labour Congress, and drafted its constitution and helped draft its program with David Lewis, Brewin and F. R. Scott.

As a political strategist, Bryden introduced the concept of door-to-door canvassing to Canada, which soon became a standard technique for all parties.

Historian Desmond Morton once characterized him as "the shrewdest political mind in the party."

1963

He was re-elected in 1963 before retiring in 1967.

As a Member of Provincial Parliament, Bryden advocated the creation of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, opposed the creation of the Provincial Sales Tax and supported expansion of Toronto's subway system.

Using their own money, Bryden and his federal counterpart Andrew Brewin opened the first constituency office in Canada.

1975

His wife, Marion Bryden, went on to serve as an MPP in the successor riding of Beaches—Woodbine from 1975 to 1990.

1984

After leaving the legislature, Bryden earned his PhD at the University of Toronto and then joined the faculty and taught political economy at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1984.

1990

He remained active in community life, serving as president of the Confederation of Resident and Ratepayers Associations and lobbying against the bulldozing of neighbourhoods to create high-rises and expressways and, in the mid-1990s, lobbied against the amalgamation of the city of Toronto.