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| Macphail, Agnes Campbell |
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(m kf l´) (KEY) , 1890–1954, Canadian legislator, b. Ontario. She was elected (1921) to the Canadian House of Commons as a representative of the United Farmers of Ontario and Labor, the first woman in Canada to enter Parliament; she served until her defeat in 1940. She later became a member of the Ontario legislature (1943–45; 1948–51). On the formation (1933) of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, she became a leading member of this party. | 1 | | See biography by M. Stewart and D. French (1959). | 2 |
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