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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = 
| name             =William Charles Good
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| image            =William Charles Good.jpg
| constituency_MP  =[[Brant (electoral district)|Brant]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      =[[John Harold]]
| successor        = [[Franklin Smoke]]
| term_start       = 1921
| term_end         = 1925
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1876|2|24}}
| birth_place      = Near [[Brantford, Ontario]], Canada{{sfnm |1a1=Macpherson |1y=2013 |2a1=Thomas |2y=1973 |2p=1}}
| death_date       = {{nowrap| {{death date and age|1967|11|16|1876|2|24}} }}
| death_place      = [[Paris, Ontario]], Canada{{sfn|Macpherson|2013}}
| spouse           = 
| party            = [[Progressive Party of Canada]]
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'''William Charles Good''' (February 24, 1876 – November 16, 1967),{{sfn|Macpherson|2013}} also known as '''W.&nbsp;C. Good''', was a [[Canadian]] politician and leader of the farmers' and [[co-operative]] movement in Canada.

Good {{citation needed span |date=October 2019 |text=joined}} the executive of the Farmers' Association in 1904.{{sfn|Macpherson|2013}} A proponent of farmers' unity, he helped found the Canadian Council of Agriculture in 1909 with [[Ernest Charles Drury]] and [[Edward Alexander Partridge|E.&nbsp;A. Partridge]] and helped organize the [[United Farmers of Ontario]] and its co-operative arm in 1914.{{sfn|Macpherson|2013}}

Good was a {{citation needed span |date=October 2019 |text=prominent}} member of the [[Progressive Party of Canada]] and was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in 1921 as one of its MPs and served until 1925 representing the riding of [[Brant (electoral district)|Brant]].{{sfn|Thomas|1973|p=17}} He was an advocate of electoral reform, [[tariff]] reform, temperance and banking reform.

In June 1922, he introduced legislation in the House of Commons that would have seen [[Instant-runoff voting]] used in each riding where more than two candidates were competing and he also called for demonstration multi-member districts in to provide experience of [[proportional representation]]. However the bill was defeated <ref>The UFA, June 1, 1922</ref>

He was elected president of the [[Co-operative Union of Canada]] in 1921, retaining that office until 1945. He was a founding member of the [[Ginger Group]] of radical MPs in 1924.

An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected in front of the Myrtleville House museum in [[Brantford, Ontario|Brantford]], [[Ontario]], by the province to commemorate William Charles Good's role in Ontario's heritage.<ref>[http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_ABC/Plaque_Brantford29.html Ontario Plaque]</ref>

== Archives ==
There is a William Charles Good [[fonds]] at [[Library and Archives Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Finding aid to William Charles Good fonds, part 1|url=http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002295.pdf|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Finding to William Charles Good fonds, part 2|url=http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000043.pdf|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> Archival reference number is R4238.

== Electoral record ==
{{1921 Canadian federal election/Brant}}

==References==
===Footnotes===
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===Bibliography===
{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}
* {{cite encyclopedia
|last=Macpherson
|first=Ian
|year=2013
|title=William Charles Good
|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-charles-good
|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia
|location=Toronto
|publisher=Historica Canada
|access-date=October 4, 2019
}}
* {{cite thesis
|last=Thomas
|first=Roy
|year=1973
|title=The Ideas of William Charles Good: A Christian and Agrarian Reformer; The Formative Years, 1896–1919
|degree=MA
|location=Ottawa
|publisher=University of Ottawa
|hdl=10393/22085
|hdl-access=free
}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=2991}}

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[[Category:1876 births]]
[[Category:1967 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian Christian socialists]]
[[Category:Canadian cooperative organizers]]
[[Category:Ginger Group MPs]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario]]
[[Category:Members of the United Church of Canada]]
[[Category:Progressive Party of Canada MPs]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]


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