Bruce Magnuson

Bruce Adolf H. Magnuson (February 21, 1909 – June 24, 1995) was a Canadian trade unionist and Communist leader.

Magnuson was born in the Swedish province of Värmland and grew up on his parents' farm. He immigrated to Canada in the spring of 1928 at the age of 19 and worked on farms in Saskatchewan before settling in the Lakehead district of northern Ontario in 1933 where he got involved in a bushworkers' strike led by the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada.

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Bruce Adolf H. Magnuson (February 21, 1909 – June 24, 1995) was a Canadian trade unionist and Communist leader who settled in the Lakehead district of northern Ontario in 1933, where he became involved in a bushworkers' strike led by the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada. He was elected president of Local 2786 Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union in 1940 and led the union until 1951, and in 1946 led a strike credited with establishing the union throughout northern Ontario's timber industry. As a Labor-Progressive and later Communist candidate, he ran several times in the region, including provincially in Port Arthur in 1945, 1951, 1955, and 1963, and federally in Port Arthur in 1953 against C.D. Howe and in Fort William in 1958.

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