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First Italian-Canadian woman elected to Parliament First woman elected to Parliament from Quebec (of 3) Minister of National Revenue (1976–1977) Minister of Health (1977–1979, 1980–1984) Flora MacDonald (1926–2015) Kingston and the Islands: October 30, 1972: November 20, 1988: Progressive Conservative [21] Minister of Foreign Affairs ...
Agnes Campbell Macphail (March 24, 1890 – February 13, 1954) [1] was a Canadian politician and the first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons. She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1921 to 1940; from 1943 to 1945 and again from 1948 to 1951, she served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the Toronto riding of York East.
The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise McKinney in the 1917 Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election. Although female representation in politics has increased since then, and political parties have ...
The 14th Canadian Parliament was the first Canadian parliament where a woman sat as a member. Women first became eligible to hold seats in the Canadian House of Commons on July 7, 1919. In the 1921 federal election, four women ran for seats in the House of Commons. Agnes Macphail was elected for a rural constituency in Ontario, becoming the ...
The first female premier was Rita Johnston in 1991 in British Columbia. Today, every Canadian jurisdiction has had at least one female premier except for Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan. The most women first ministers at any one time was six, for 277 days from 11 February to 15 November 2013.
She was the first Black Canadian woman to serve as a federal Minister of the Crown and Member of Parliament. Prior to entering politics in 1993, Jean Augustine had a career in education. [ 1 ] She enrolled in Toronto Teachers’ College, graduating with an Ontario teaching certificate in 1963.
Emily Murphy (born Emily Gowan Ferguson; 14 March 1868 – 26 October 1933) [1] was a Canadian women's rights activist and author.In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada and the fifth in the British Empire after Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, Jane Price, E. Cullen and Cecilia Dixon of Australia (all appointed to office in 1915).
Also first woman appointed a cabinet minister in Quebec, the first woman appointed acting premier, and the first woman judge to serve in the Quebec Provincial Court. First female MLA elected in New Brunswick: Brenda Robertson, New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA, 1967–1984; First female candidate in Prince Edward Island: