List of women appointed to the Canadian Senate
Women have served in the Canadian Senate since Senator Cairine Wilson was first appointed to the Senate by the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1930.[1] Since then, women have represented every province and territory in the Senate except for Nunavut.
Women won the right to be appointed to the Senate in 1929 due to the Famous Five Persons Case (Edwards v Canada (AG)).
Appointed before 1993
Senator | Province | Took office | Left office | Party | Appointed on the advice of | Note |
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Cairine Wilson | Ontario | February 20, 1930 | March 30, 1962 | Liberal | William Lyon Mackenzie King | First woman appointed senator |
Iva Campbell Fallis | Ontario | July 20, 1935 | March 7, 1956 | Conservative | R. B. Bennett | [2] |
Marianna Beauchamp Jodoin | Quebec | May 19, 1953 | June 1, 1966 | Liberal | Louis St. Laurent | [3] |
Muriel McQueen Ferguson | New Brunswick | May 19, 1953 | May 23, 1975 | Liberal | Louis St. Laurent | [3] |
Nancy Hodges | British Columbia | November 5, 1953 | June 12, 1965 | Liberal | Louis St. Laurent | [3] |
Florence Elsie Inman | Prince Edward Island | July 28, 1955 | May 31, 1986 | Liberal | Louis St. Laurent | [3] |
Olive Lilian Irvine | Manitoba | January 14, 1960 | November 1, 1969 | Progressive Conservative | John Diefenbaker | [3] |
Josie Alice Quart | Quebec | November 16, 1960 | April 17, 1980 | Progressive Conservative | John Diefenbaker | [3] |
Mary Elizabeth Kinnear | Ontario | April 6, 1967 | April 3, 1973 | Liberal | Lester B. Pearson | [3] |
Thérèse Casgrain | Quebec | October 7, 1970 | July 10, 1971 | Non-affiliated | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Nancy Bell | British Columbia | October 7, 1970 | November 29, 1989 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Renaude Lapointe | Quebec | November 10, 1971 | January 3, 1987 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Margaret Norrie | Nova Scotia | April 27, 1972 | October 16, 1980 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Joan Neiman | Ontario | September 1, 1972 | September 9, 1995 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Florence Bird | Ontario | March 23, 1978 | January 15, 1983 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Margaret Jean Anderson | New Brunswick | March 23, 1978 | August 7, 1990 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Dalia Wood | Quebec | March 26, 1979 | January 31, 1999 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Yvette Boucher Rousseau | Quebec | March 27, 1979 | March 17, 1988 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Martha Bielish | Alberta | September 27, 1979 | September 26, 1990 | Progressive Conservative | Joe Clark | [3] |
Lorna Marsden | Ontario | January 24, 1984 | August 31, 1992 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | [3] |
Anne Cools | Ontario | January 13, 1984 | August 12, 2018 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | First black member, and longest serving member of the Senate[3][4] |
Joyce Fairbairn | Alberta | June 29, 1984 | January 18, 2013 | Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | First woman to serve as Leader of the Government of the Senate[3][5] |
Brenda Robertson | New Brunswick | December 21, 1984 | May 23, 2004 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Eileen Rossiter | Prince Edward Island | November 17, 1986 | July 14, 2004 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Mira Spivak | Manitoba | November 17, 1986 | July 12, 2009 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Ethel Cochrane | Newfoundland and Labrador | November 17, 1986 | September 23, 2012 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Solange Chaput-Rolland | Quebec | September 26, 1988 | May 14, 1994 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Nancy Teed | New Brunswick | August 30, 1990 | January 29, 1993 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Pat Carney | British Columbia | August 30, 1990 | January 31, 2008 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Mabel DeWare | New Brunswick | September 23, 1990 | August 9, 2001 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Janis Johnson | Manitoba | September 27, 1990 | September 27, 2016 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Thérèse Lavoie-Roux | Quebec | September 27, 1990 | March 12, 2001 | Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | [3] |
Since 1993
Current
Forty-eight women are currently (July 6, 2023) serving in the Senate.
See qlso
List of women elected to Canadian Parliament
References
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- ^ "Profile". Library of Parliament. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h "Party Standings in the Senate". Archived from the original on October 7, 2015.
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