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Coady
Paperback
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9781772621266
Publisher: Conundrum Press
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Unlike other biographical work on Moses Coady and the Antigonish Movement,
Cape Breton native Donald Calabrese uses archival material and the Coady papers
to focus on private misgivings and personal struggles in addition to
his contributions to the co-operative movement and social justice.
Moses Coady (1882-1959), was a Roman Catholic Priest born in Margaree, Nova Scotia who famously inspired and led The Antigonish Movement: the co-operative education / economic movement that spread internationally during the mid-twentieth century. COADY explores Moses Coady's personal triumphs and misgivings alongside a contemporary historian's attempt to reconcile the spirit of Twentieth Century revolutionary economics with the vanishing political resistance of post-industrial Atlantic Canada. The Antigonish Movement blended adult education, co-operatives, microfinance and rural community development to help small, resource-based communities around Canada's Maritimes to improve their economic and social circumstances. A group of priests and educators, including Coady, led this movement from a base at the Extension Department at St. Francis Xavier University (St. F.X.) in Antigonish, NS. The credit union system owes its origins to the Antigonish Movement. Coady argued that if workers took the time to understand their circumstances and assumed the risks of co-operative action, they could achieve economic security and greater freedom and self-realization. Coady is metahistory that asks questions about how we mythologize our
past and form our cultural identities.
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