William Coaker
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title:
William Coaker
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Sir William Ford Coaker KBE was a Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union, the Fishermen's Union Trading Co., and the town of Port Union. A polarizing figure in Newfoundland politics and society, he was described as "the outstanding social reformer produced by Britain's Oldest Colony" by eventual Premier Joey Smallwood. Coaker is known for criticizing the truck system which dominated the fishery of Newfoundland in the eighteenth and early-nineteen
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Canadian politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Coaker
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2023-08-17T20:29:01Z
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