View source for Women in the 28th–32nd Canadian Parliaments

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
Women were first allowed to vote at the federal level in Canada in the [[1917 Canadian federal election|1917 general election]] in connection with military service, and were allowed to vote under the same conditions as men beginning on May 24, 1918. The next four elections saw only one woman elected: [[Agnes Macphail]]. The 1936 election saw two women in the House together for the first time. 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 only woman. Then 30th Parliament, elected in 1974, was another breakthrough, containing nine women MPs following the general election and rising to ten due to a by-election in 1976. The number of women in the House would not fall below ten again.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, [[Cairine Wilson]] was appointed as the first woman Senator in 1930. Additional women were added every few years, but it was not until two appointments in March 1979 that the Senate would even have ten women serving simultaneously.
== Members of the House of Commons==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!|Parliament
![[House of Commons of Canada|House members]]
!colspan="2"|Party
!Riding
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''[[28th Parliament of Canada]]'''<br/><small>0.4% women MPs</small>
|[[Grace MacInnis]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}}|&nbsp;
|New Democrat
|[[Vancouver Kingsway]], BC
|-
|style="text-align:center" rowspan="5"|'''[[29th Parliament of Canada]]'''<br/><small>1.9% women MPs</small>
|[[Monique Bégin]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Saint-Michel (electoral district)|Saint-Michel]], QC
|-
|[[Flora MacDonald (politician)|Flora MacDonald]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;
|Progressive Conservative
|[[Kingston and the Islands (federal electoral district)|Kingston and the Islands]], ON
|-
|Grace MacInnis
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}}|&nbsp;
|New Democrat
|[[Vancouver Kingsway]], BC
|-
|[[Albanie Morin]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Louis-Hébert (federal electoral district)|Louis-Hébert]], QC
|-
|[[Jeanne Sauvé]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Ahuntsic (federal electoral district)|Ahuntsic]], QC
|-
|style="text-align:center" rowspan="10"|'''[[30th Parliament of Canada]]'''<br/><small>3.8% women MPs</small>
|[[Ursula Appolloni]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[York South]], ON
|-
|Monique Bégin
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Saint-Michel (electoral district)|Saint-Michel]], QC
|-
|[[Iona Campagnolo]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Skeena (federal electoral district)|Skeena]], BC
|-
|[[Coline Campbell]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[West Nova|South Western Nova]], NS
|-
|[[Simma Holt]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Vancouver Kingsway]], BC
|-
|Flora MacDonald
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;
|Progressive Conservative
|[[Kingston and the Islands (federal electoral district)|Kingston and the Islands]], ON
|-
|Albanie Morin
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Louis-Hébert (federal electoral district)|Louis-Hébert]], QC
|-
|[[Aideen Nicholson]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity]], ON
|-
|[[Jean Pigott]]*
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;
|Progressive Conservative
|[[Ottawa—Carleton (electoral district)|Ottawa—Carleton]], ON
|-
|Jeanne Sauvé
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Ahuntsic (federal electoral district)|Ahuntsic]], QC
|-
|style="text-align:center" rowspan="10"|'''[[31st Parliament of Canada]]'''<br/><small>3.5% women MPs</small>
|Ursula Appolloni
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[York South—Weston (federal electoral district)|York South—Weston]], ON
|-
|[[Monique Bégin]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Saint-Léonard—Anjou]], QC
|-
|[[Céline Hervieux-Payette]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Mercier (federal electoral district)|Mercier]], QC
|-
|[[Pauline Jewett]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}}|&nbsp;
|NDP
|[[New Westminster—Coquitlam]], BC
|-
|[[Marie Thérèse Killens]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Saint-Michel (electoral district)|Saint-Michel]], QC
|-
|Flora MacDonald
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;
|Progressive Conservative
|[[Kingston and the Islands (federal electoral district)|Kingston and the Islands]], ON
|-
|[[Margaret Mitchell (Canadian politician)|Margaret Mitchell]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}}|&nbsp;
|NDP
|[[Vancouver East (federal electoral district)|Vancouver East]], BC
|-
|Aideen Nicholson
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity]], ON
|-
|Jeanne Sauvé
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Laval Centre|Laval-des-Rapides]], QC
|-
|[[Diane Stratas]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;
|Progressive Conservative
|[[Scarborough Centre (federal electoral district)|Scarborough Centre]], ON
|-
|style="text-align:center" rowspan="16"|'''[[32nd Parliament of Canada]]'''<br/><small>5.6% women MPs</small>
|Ursula Appolloni
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[York South—Weston (federal electoral district)|York South-Weston]], ON
|-
|[[Suzanne Beauchamp-Niquet]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean|Roberval]], QC
|-
|Monique Bégin
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Saint-Michel (electoral district)|Saint-Michel]], QC
|-
|Coline Campbell
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[West Nova|South West Nova]], NS
|-
|[[Pat Carney]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;
|Progressive Conservative
|[[Vancouver Centre]], BC
|-
|[[Eva Côté]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Rimouski (federal electoral district)|Rimouski]], QC
|-
|[[Judy Erola]]
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Nickel Belt (federal electoral district)|Nickel Belt]], ON
|-
|Céline Hervieux-Payette
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Mercier (federal electoral district)|Mercier]], QC
|-
|Pauline Jewett
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}}|&nbsp;
|NDP
|[[New Westminster—Coquitlam]], BC
|-
|Marie Thérèse Killens
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Saint-Michel (electoral district)|Saint-Michel]], QC
|-
|Flora MacDonald
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;
|Progressive Conservative
|[[Kingston and the Islands (federal electoral district)|Kingston and the Islands]], ON
|-
|[[Lynn McDonald]]*
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}}|&nbsp;
|NDP
|[[Broadview—Greenwood]], ON
|-
|Margaret Mitchell
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|background}}|&nbsp;
|NDP
|[[Vancouver East (federal electoral district)|Vancouver East]], BC
|-
|Aideen Nicholson
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity]], ON
|-
|Jeanne Sauvé
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;
|Liberal
|[[Ahuntsic (federal electoral district)|Ahuntsic]], QC
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> By by-election.
==Senators==
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
!Senator
!Parliaments
!Appointed on the advice of
!Term
!Designation
!colspan="2"|Party
|-
|[[Margaret Jean Anderson]]||30th–34th||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1978.03.23 - 1990.08.07||Northumberland-Miramichi, NB
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Ann Bell]]||28th–34th||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1970.10.07 - 1989.11.29 ||Nanaimo-Malaspina, BC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Martha Bielish]]||31st–34th||[[Joe Clark|Clark]]||1979.09.27 - 1990.09.26 ||Lakeland, AB
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;||Progressive Conservative
|-
|[[Florence Bayard Bird]]||30th–32nd||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1978.03.23 - 1983.01.15 ||Carleton, ON
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Thérèse Casgrain]]||28th||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1970.10.07 - 1971.07.10||Mille Isles, QC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|background}}|&nbsp;||Independent
|-
|[[Anne Cools]]||32nd– ||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1984.01.13 -  ||Toronto Centre-York, ON
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal (until 2004)
|-
|[[Joyce Fairbairn]]||32nd–34th ||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1984.06.29 - 2013.01.18  ||Lethbridge, AB
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Iva Campbell Fallis]]||17th–22nd||[[Richard Bedford Bennett|Bennett]]||1935.07.20 - 1956.03.07||Peterborough, ON
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;||Conservative
|-
|[[Muriel McQueen Fergusson]]||21st–29th||[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]||1953.05.19 - 1975.05.23||Fredericton, NB
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Nancy Hodges]]||22nd–26th||[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]||1953.11.05 - 1965.06.12||Victoria, BC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Florence Elsie Inman]]||22nd–33rd||[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]||1955.07.28 - 1986.05.31||Murray Harbour, PE
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Olive Lillian Irvine]]||24th–28th||[[John Diefenbaker|Diefenbaker]]||1960.01.14 - 1969.11.01||Lisgar, MB
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;||Progressive Conservative
|-
|[[Marianna Beauchamp Jodoin]]||21st–27th||[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]||1953.05.19 - 1975.05.23||Saurel, QC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Mary Elizabeth Kinnear]]||27th–29th||[[Lester Pearson|Pearson]]||1967.04.06 - 1973.04.03||Welland, ON
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Renaude Lapointe]]||28th–33rd||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1971.11.10 - 1987.01.03||Mille Isles, QC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Lorna Marsden]]||32nd–34th ||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1984.01.24 - 1992.08.31  ||Toronto Centre-York, Ontario
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Joan Neiman]]||28th–36th||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1972.09.01 - 1995.09.09||Peel, ON
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Margaret Norrie]]||28th–32nd||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1972.04.27 - 1980.10.16||Colchester-Cumberland, NS
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Josie Alice Quart]]||24th–28th||[[John Diefenbaker|Diefenbaker]]||1960.01.14 - 1969.11.01||Victoria, QC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|&nbsp;||Progressive Conservative
|-
|[[Yvette Boucher Rousseau]]||30th–33rd||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1979.03.27 - 1988.03.17 ||De Salaberry, QC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Cairine Wilson]]||16th–24th||[[William Lyon Mackenzie King|King]]||1930.02.15 - 1962.03.03 ||Rockcliffe, ON
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|-
|[[Dalia Wood]]||30th–36th||[[Pierre Trudeau|Trudeau, P.]]||1979.03.26 - 1999.01.31 ||	Montarville, QC
|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|&nbsp;||Liberal
|}
==See also==
*[[Women in Canadian politics]]
*[[Women in Canadian provincial and territorial legislatures]]
{{Canada parliaments}}
==External links==
*[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/prb0562-e.htm Women in Parliament] - Parliament of Canada
*[http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/SenatorsMembers_house.asp?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&Sect=hoccur#wh Current lists of women in the House of Commons] - Parliament of Canada
*[http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/SenatorsMembers_house.asp?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&Sect=hochist#wh Historical lists of women in the House of Commons] - Parliament of Canada
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