Margaret Mary Macdonald Explained

Margaret Mary Macdonald
Birth Date:November 11, 1910
Birth Place:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death Date:February 3, 1968
Office:Member of Parliament for King's
Term Start:1961
Term End:1963
Predecessor:John Augustine Macdonald
Successor:John Mullally
Occupation:teacher, secretary

Margaret Mary Macdonald was a Canadian politician. On May 29, 1961 she became the first woman to represent Prince Edward Island in the House of Commons of Canada.[1]

She first won representation for the electoral district of King's at the House of Commons in a by-election in 1961, a seat vacated by the death of her husband John Augustine Macdonald.[2] Macdonald retained her seat in the 1962 federal election. She was defeated by Liberal John Mullally in the 1963 federal election.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Women in Politics Across Canada, Select Table of Firsts (Chronological) . . 2007-10-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929093410/http://stillcounting.athabascau.ca/table2-1.php . 2007-09-29 .
  2. Conrad . Margaret . April 1, 2003 . Addressing the democratic deficit: Women and political culture in Atlantic Canada . Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice . 27 . 2 . 82–89 . January 5, 2024.