"The teachings of Lenin and the experiences of Lenin's party have been powerful influences in the development of the Communist Party of Canada. The Great October Revolution, carried through to victory by the Bolshevik Party under Lenin's leadership, inspired the founding of the Canadian party. In the long struggle which followed to achieve for our party a Leninist character, and in a number of crucial periods since then, the teachings of Lenin and the example of the Bolshevik Party have been always both the main inspiration and the guiding light for the members of it who fought for Leninism." Timothy "Tim" Buck (January 6, 1891 - March 11, 1973) was a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada (known from the 1940s until the late 1950s as the Labour Progressive Party). Together with Ernst Thalmann of Germany, Maurice Thorez of France, Palmiro Togliatti of Italy, Earl Browder of the United States, and Harry Pollitt of Britain, Buck was one of the top leaders of the Joseph Stalin-era Communist International."