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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 ...
First Tamil-Canadian Female elected in Canada Juanita Nathan, elected York School Board Trustee for Markham Wards 7 and 8; First Tamil-Canadian and Tamil Female elected House of Commons Rathika Sitsabaiesan, elected Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River, Ontario from 2011 to 2015
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.
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947) is a former Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 1993 until November that same year. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada.
Representation by women has been a significant issue in Canadian politics since 1900. 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.
List of female first ministers in Canada; P. List of women elected to Canadian Parliament; Women in the 28th–32nd Canadian Parliaments;
Hilda Kari was the first woman directly elected to the National Parliament in 1989. [186] Somalia: 1979: 18 women [9] South Africa: 1933: Leila Reitz [187] South Korea: 1946: Hwang Shin-duk Park Hyun-sook Park Seung-ho Shin Eui-kyung [188] The four were appointed members. Louise Yim became the first woman elected to parliament in 1949 [189 ...
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.