Background
William Gwynne Davies was born on February 11, 1916 in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada. He moved to Regina with his family at the age of seven.
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Career
He represented Moose Jaw City from 1956 to 1967 as a Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) member and Moose Jaw Wakamow from 1967 to 1971 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Davies worked as an office boy at the Regina Daily Star. He was present at the Regina Riot of 1935, where he was tear gas-ed by police.
During the 1940s, he worked at the Swift Canadian slaughterhouse in Moose Jaw and helped organize the plant for the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
He served on the Federal Wartime Labour Relations Board and the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board. Davies was executive secretary for the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour for 25 years.
Davies served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Works and as Minister of Public Health. Medicare was introduced in Saskatchewan while he held the Public Health portfolio. Davies published a book of poetry called The Buffalo Stone.
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