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George Stewart Henry (July 16, 1871-September 2, 1953) was a farmer, businessman and politician in Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1913 as a Conservative. From 1923 to 1930, he served as Minister of Highways in the government of George Ferguson, expanding on the highway system that was initiated by the previous government of Ernest C. Drury.


When Ferguson stepped down in 1930, barely a year into the Great Depression, Henry succeeded him as Conservative party leader and Premier of Ontario. Henry continued the programe of building roads, extending Ontario's highway system from 670 km to 3888 km.


Construction of Canada's first four lane controlled access superhighway, the Toronto to Niagara Falls Queen Elizabeth Way, is the most lasting achievement of the highway program. Henry was opposed to government intervention to deal with the economy. Aside from building roads, his government did little to alleviate public suffering during the Depression, such as unemployment in the cities, or the collapse of prices for farm products in the country. Henry's government, like the federal government of R.B. Bennett, established work camps for jobless men. They were established not so much to provide social welfare, but rather as social control, i.e., to evacuate this potentially radical element from the cities. The work camps also provided a source of labour for the construction of Henry's highway system.


In the 1934 election, George Henry sought a new mandate from the voters in his first election as Premier. Some felt the government had little to offer beyond more road construction, and the Tories were soundly defeated by the Ontario Liberal Party led by Mitchell Hepburn.


Henry's farm, now in the North York part of the City of Toronto, became a subdivision of suburban houses in the 1960s, called "Henry Farm". George S. Henry Academy is a public high school nearby.

Preceded by:
George Howard Ferguson
1923-1930

Premier of Ontario
1930-1934

Succeeded by:
Mitchell Hepburn
1934-1942

Preceded by:
George Howard Ferguson

Ontario Conservative Leaders

Succeeded by:
William Earl Rowe


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In it George made the argument that nearly all of the wealth created by social and technological advances in a free market economy is captured by land owners and monopolists via economic rents, and that this concentration of unearned wealth is the root cause of poverty.
George considered it a great injustice to restrict a man from using natural resources, and believed such restrictions were equivalent to slavery, a concept known as wage slavery.
Henry George's popularity declined in the 20th century; however, there are still many Georgist organisations in existence, and many people who do remain famous were heavily influenced by him, such as George Bernard Shaw, Leo Tolstoy, Sun Yat Sen, Herbert Simon [2], and David Lloyd George.
Henry George - definition of Henry George in Encyclopedia (1028 words)
Henry George (September 2, 1839 - October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, and the most influential proponent of the "Single Tax" on land.
In it George made the argument that nearly all of the wealth created by social and technological advances in a free market economy is captured by land owners and monopolists via rents, and that this concentration of unearned wealth is the root cause of poverty.
Henry George was familiar with the work of Karl Marx – and predicted that if Marx's ideas were tried the likely result would be a dictatorship.
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