Progressive Conservative Party – Constituency Organization

Thin card covers, saddle stitched with staples, 42 pages, 5.5x7.5 in - 14x19 cm.

Front cover rubbed at top. Spine rubbed, bumped at head and heel. Staples rusting. Front cover verso and p.4 stamped by previous owner. Pages lightly age-tanned but clean.

Ahead of Canada’s 1949 federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party published an Organization Series of booklets to facilitate the creation/growth of local party cells. This first booklet in the series discusses local constituency organizations. From setting up an office to fielding election candidates to keeping track of voter lists, the booklet offers administrative advice for Progressive Conservative supporters organizing at the local level. While avoiding platform points, the volume provides insight into canvassing, promotional, and electoral processes endorsed by the Progressive Conservatives in the late 1940s. Laid in is a 1949 mailing on Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party stationary from Alvin Hamilton (Director of Organization, soon to be elected Saskatchewan’s Progressive Conservative Party leader) announcing a National Membership Drive. Lauding federal party leader George Drew, Hamilton’s letter requests recipients to sell membership tickets to build support for the Progressive Conservatives in Saskatchewan.