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First American-Canadian woman elected to Parliament First Independent woman elected to Parliament First woman elected to Parliament from Yukon Dorise Nielsen (1902–1980) North Battleford: March 26, 1940: June 10, 1945: Unity [4] First English-Canadian woman elected to Parliament Only Labor-Progressive or Unity (i.e., Communist) woman elected ...
First female cabinetmember with a portfolio: Tilly Rolston [6] First female Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons: Jeanne Sauvé, 1980–1984; First female federal Justice Minister (Attorney General): Kim Campbell (Progressive Conservative) [3] First female Defence Minister: Kim Campbell, (Progressive Conservative) [3] First female Minister ...
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 ...
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva —appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.
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.
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;
Despite her dramatic loss in the election, Canadian women's magazine Chatelaine named Campbell as its Woman of the Year for 1993. [33] She published an autobiography, Time and Chance, (ISBN 0-770-42738-3) in 1996. The book became a Canadian bestseller and is in its third edition from the University of Alberta Bookstore Press (ISBN 000010132X).