Jimmy Tompkins (priest), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Antigonish Movement leader
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Place of Birth: Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Jimmy Tompkins (priest)
- Reverend James John Tompkins (7 September 1870 – 5 May 1953) was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the Antigonish Movement, a progressive effort that incorporated adult education, cooperatives and rural community development to aid the fishing and mining communities of northern and eastern Nova Scotia, Canada.
- The Antigonish Movement later evolved into the Extension Department (now the Coady International Center) of St.
- Francis Xavier University.
- Father Tompkins believed in the emancipating power of education and sought to improve economic conditions through study groups and co-operative action.
- "It is not enough to have ideas, we have to put legs on them", he often said.
- He started the first regional library in Nova Scotia along with the first credit union and a cooperative housing association in Reserve Mines that was dubbed "Tompkinsville".
- Father Tompkins was the Spiritual founder of the Antigonish Movement.
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