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Cooke's Old World Shop Limited, formerly known as Cooke's Fine Foods, began as an Italian warehouse, operated in 1865 by William Begg and Co. It was a wholesale and retail grocery, wine and spirit business. J.S. Henderson took over and ran the business from the 1880's to 1924 when the store was purchased by Hugh Cooke, a longtime employee. During the 1930's, Cooke also operated a Red and White Store next door. A fire broke out in the store in 1925 but the building was fortunately saved. During World War II thousands of specialty baskets were shipped overseas. In 1966 John Cooke took over the operation of the store and wine and beermaking supplies were added to numerous specialty foodstuffs and fresh ground coffee.

The family includes W.H. Coombs, a teacher, and A.A. Coombs, a daguerreotype photographer.

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A.H. Cooper was a photographer based in Toronto, ON.

Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

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After the official founding of the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.) at Regina in 1933, the new party set out to establish provincial organizations. By the early 1940's, in Ontario, after a rough start, the Party had attracted a number of supporters and in the election of 1943 elected 34 members to the Legislature. For the next eight years the fortunes of the party fluctuated until in 1951 a snap election called by Premier Leslie Frost reduced C.C.F. representation in the Legislature to two seats. The decade of the 1950's became a period of revitalization in Ontario. In the meantime the national movement, which had suffered in the federal election of 1958, had agreed to enter into a more formal relationship with the trade union movement. The merger of the industrial unions and the craft unions into one central labour body (the Canadian Labour Congress) seemed to signal that the time was right to make an attempt to tie more union members to the party. Consultation between C.C.F and C.L.C. leaders resulted in the birth of the New Democratic Party (N.D.P.) in 1961. By 1967, with increased resources and more electoral sophistication the Party was once more able to emerge as a major force in Ontario politics, capturing 26 percent of the vote and securing 20 seats in the Legislature. In 1971, another provincial election was fought and for the first time the C.C.F.-N.D.P. was able to follow one relatively successful election, with another, retaining nineteen 19 seats in the Legislature under new party leader Stephen Lewis.

The Co-operative Supply Depot of Kingston grew out of the Co-operative Supplies Depot of Ottawa and was begun in 1969. The Kingston Co-Op was a community affair based upon the Direct-Charge principle; that is, there was no markup on goods sold and the organization was kept going through a weekly service charge and through the quarterly purchase of inexpensive shares by each family unit. Directors were elected by the general membership, with each member having only one vote regardless of shares held, at an annual general meeting. Meetings of the general membership were held, on average, four times a year. Due to waning membership and rising costs the Co-operative Supply Depot ceased functioning in 1971.

George Gibson Coote, 1880-1959, was born in Oakville, Ontario. In 1901 he was employed by the Bank of Hamilton and in 1906 was transferred to Nanton, Alberta to open a branch. He managed the branch until 1908 then homesteaded in the area. In 1910 he married Jeanette Louise McKinnon, ?-1951, and they had two sons, Donald H. and George F. He was active on the Council of Local Improvement District No. 8, and joined the United Farmers of Alberta in 1911. He was elected as the UFA Member of Parliament (MP) for Macleod in the 1921 federal election, and was re-elected to Parliament in 1925, 1926 and 1930. He joined the Progressives in the House, and became a member of the "Ginger Group". He was the group's financial critic and actively pressed for banking reforms. He was defeated in the 1935 federal election. In 1936 he was appointed director of the Bank of Canada. He also served as director of the Alberta Wheat Pool, 1936-1952, and secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Chamber of Agriculture, 1938-1939.