Joseph W. Noseworthy
Joseph William Noseworthy (November 25, 1888 – March 30, 1956) was a Canadian politician. He was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the federal parliament from 1942 to 1945 and again from 1949 to 1956. He died in office on March 30, 1956. Background Noseworthy was born in Lewisporte, Newfoundland and grew up working on fishing boats and getting his education when he could. As a teenager he worked as a lumberman before obtaining his teaching certificate at the age of 18. In 1910, he entered Albert College in Belleville, Ontario and paid his tuition by working with Frontier College going into the bush and teaching lumberjacks how to read and continued working for Frontier College when he attended Victoria College in Toronto. Finishing his education at the age of 30, he sold insurance for a year before joining North Toronto Collegiate Institute as a history teacher. After seven years, he moved to Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute in the suburb of York, Toronto becoming head of the English department. Noseworthy became the President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation in 1938 serving a one year term. Politics He joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and was its candidate in