William Charles Good (February 24, 1876 – November 16, 1967) was a Canadian

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 politician and leader of the farmers' and co-operative movement in Canada.

Good joined the executive of the Farmers' Association in 1904. A proponent of farmers' unity, he founded the Canadian Council of Agriculture in 1909 with Ernest Charles Drury

Ernest Charles Drury

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 and E. A. Partridge and helped organize the United Farmers of Ontario

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 and its co-operative arm in 1914.

Good was a prominent member of the Progressive Party of Canada

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 and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in 1921 as one of its MPs and served until 1925 representing the riding of Brant

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. He was an advocate of electoral reform, tariff

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 reform, temperance and banking reform. He was elected president of the Co-operative Union of Canada in 1921 retaining that office until 1945.

He was a founding member of the Ginger Group

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 of radical MPs in 1924. Good, William Charleshttp://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003261

An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected in front of the Myrtleville House museum in Brantford, Ontario

Brantford, Ontario

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by the province to commemorate William Charles Good's role in Ontario's heritage.