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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 ...
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;
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.
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]
In Ottawa, her father would take her to see the bronze bust on Parliament Hill of Canada's first female Member of Parliament (MP), Agnes Macphail. [2] Sauvé studied at Notre Dame du Rosaire Convent in Ottawa, becoming head of her class in her first year, and continued her education at the University of Ottawa , working for the government of ...