89-Moses Coady

 

 

Personal Data

Birth:                                               03 January 1882, Margaree

                                                        Valley, Cape Breton, Nova

                                                        Scotia

 

Death:                                             28 July 1959

 

 

Pictures

 

Education

1900-1901                    Provincial Normal College

1903                            St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

1905                            Urban College of the Propaganda Fide, Rome, Italy

1910                            Ordained a Roman Catholic priest, the Vatican, Rome, Italy

1915                            Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C

Degrees

Bachelor of the Arts 

Doctorate in Divinity (D.D.)

Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Master of Graduate Studies

 

Employment

1901-1903                       Principal of Margaree Forks High School

 

1910-1928	Professor and Principal, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
1928-1952	Director of the Extension Department, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

1921-1924                    Union Organizer of PEA

Awards and Honors

1949                        Addressed the Economic and Social Council of the United

                               Nations

 

Membership-Professional Organizations

PEA-Provincial Educational Association-organizer

Teachers’ Fragile Union

founding/editing the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Bulletin

 

Publications

1939   1951   1971

Masters of Their Own Destiny, Harper.   Would you be a leader? St. Francis Xavier University.   The man from Margaree: Writings and speeches of M. M. Coady, educator/reformer/priest.  McClelland and Stewart.

 

Professional Interest Areas

Keeping farmers working on the land

Antigonish Movement

Credit Unions (banking)

Scientific methods of planning and production

Co-operative entrepreneurship

Major Contributions to Adult Education

Antigonish Movement

Cooperative learning

Critical thinking

Study clubs

The Coady International Institute

 

Video Link to Coady Speech

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2964388085856485854#

 

 

 

 

Resources

History of the Coady Institute.  Accessed on 14 July 2008 @   http://www.coady.stfx.ca/history.cfm

Moses Coady.  Accessed on 14 July 2008 @ http://en.wikipedia.org/Moses_Coady

Moses Coady. Accessed on 14 July 2008 @ http://www.amazon.com

Masters of Their Own Destiny (n.d). Moses Coady.  Retrieved from http://coadyextension.stfx.ca/people/leaders/moses-coady/

Moses Coady Speech (n.d) Retrieved from http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2964388085856485854#