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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 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.
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.
She was the first woman to hold either office, and is to date the only woman to serve as speaker of the House of Commons. Sauvé was born in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan , and educated in Ottawa and Paris , prior to working as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Ellen Louks Fairclough PC CC OOnt (née Cook; [1] January 28, 1905 – November 13, 2004) was a Canadian politician. A Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1950 to 1963, she was the first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Cabinet. [2]
A by-election in 1941 saw a woman elected to the governing caucus for the first time. The 22nd federal election in 1953 was a slight breakthrough, electing four women, which was 1.5% of the House. Every Parliament thenafter would have at least two women at a time, except for the 28th Parliament from 1968 to 1972, in which Grace MacInnis was 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.