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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.
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 ...
Jean Augustine, first Black woman elected to the House of Commons. First Black woman elected to the House of Commons (first Black female MP) Jean Augustine, Etobicoke—Lakeshore, Liberal MP, 1993–2006 [22] First Black provincial legislator: Leonard Braithwaite, Etobicoke-York, Ontario Liberal MPP 1963–1975 [26] First Black MLA in British ...
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 ...
During the 16th Canadian Parliament, women sat as members for the first time in both the House of Commons and the Senate. Two women ran for seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1926 federal election but Agnes Macphail, first elected in 1921, continued to be the only woman elected. In February 1930, Cairine Wilson was named to the ...
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.
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 was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election. Although female representation in politics has massively increased since then, and political parties have ...
Ten women ran for seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1930 federal election but Agnes Macphail, first elected in 1921, continued to be the only woman elected. Cairine Wilson continued to sit as a member of the Senate. In July 1935, Iva Campbell Fallis became the second woman named to the Canadian senate. [1]