Colleagues, party stalwarts gather to commemorate Don Cody’s political career
It was 1952 when a teenaged Don Cody first dipped his toes into the political world.
Cody’s father asked him to accompany him to a federal nomination convention in rural Saskatchewan. Hugh Alexander Bryson of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was nominated to represent the riding of Humboldt – Melfort – Tisdale that night.
“I will never forget the guys that were in federal politics at that time,” Cody said, listing off stalwarts of the CCF like Merv Johnson and Hazen Argue.
Cody later worked as a telegraph operator for Canadian Pacific Railway and moved on to be a claims adjuster for SGI in Regina. He stayed with the government insurance company until 1967 when he took on similar positions with the Co-op Insurance Services.