Ray Stevenson

Raymond Leslie Stevenson (December 17, 1919 – August 24, 2004 ) was a Canadian writer and political activist. He was an executive member of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People and Associate and Editor of Northstar Compass – the organization's print publication. Stevenson worked on Northstar Compass for over thirteen years. Stevenson was an executive member of the World Peace Congress and a trade union organizer.

Stevenson was a member of the Communist Party of Canada from 1940 to 1998,

Political career and activism He was active in the Communist Party's Dominion Communist-Labor Total War Committee, which campaigned for a "yes" vote in the 1942 referendum on conscription, i.e. in favour of its introduction (see Conscription Crisis of 1944). In his final years, he was an executive member of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People.

Death Stevenson died on August 24, 2004, at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto after a long illness, at the age of 84. His ashes were scattered in his native Manitoba at the site of his first school. He was survived by his wife Lil Greene. Stevenson left $5,000 to Northstar Compass; the publication used it to start the "Ray Stevenson Sustaining Fund", taking donations to keep the publication going.