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	Agnes Macphail
		Macphail was born to Dougald McPhail and Henrietta Campbell in Proton Township in Grey County, Ontario, on March 24, 1890.
		Macphail was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Progressive Party of Canada for the Grey Southeast riding in the 1921 federal election.
		Macphail was responsible for Ontario's first equal pay legislation, passed in 1951, but was unable to continue her efforts when she was defeated in elections later that year.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/717/Agnes-Macphail.html (650 words)

	Agnes Macphail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Macphail was born to Dougald McPhail and Henrietta Campbell in Proton Township in Grey County, Ontario, on March 24, 1890.
		Macphail was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Progressive Party of Canada for the Grey Southeast riding in the 1921 federal election.
		In the 1943 provincial election, Macphail was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Ontario CCF representing the suburban Toronto riding of York East.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agnes_Macphail (853 words)

	Joy MacPhail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		MacPhail was first elected to the British Columbia Legislature in 1991 as the MLA for Vancouver-Hastings, and has served in the cabinets of three NDP premiers.
		MacPhail's final cabinet position in the Clark government was as Minister of Finance from 1998 to 1999, when she quit the Clark government at a time that it was suffering from increasing dissent and scandal.
		She was a harsh critic of the new BC Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell, often fueled by the Premier's refusal to grant MacPhail the status of Leader of the Official Opposition on the basis of her party's tiny representation, despite the fact that she led the only other party in the legislature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joy_MacPhail (396 words)

	Macphail, Agnes Campbell
		Macphail was the only woman in Canada to be elected to the House of Commons in 1921, the first year in which women had the vote (courtesy Library and Archives Canada).
		Macphail was the only woman elected to Canada's Parliament in 1921, the first federal election in which women had the vote.
		Macphail began as a country schoolteacher and was active in the Ontario agricultural CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT and the UNITED FARMERS OF ONTARIO.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005013 (452 words)

	Elections Canada On-Line \| About Elections Canada
		Agnes Campbell Macphail was born of Scottish descent in a three-room log house on March 24, 1890, in Proton Township in Grey County, in Ontario's rural Protestant heartland.
		Macphail was defeated in 1945, but returned to the legislature in the election of 1948, with the largest number of votes gained by any provincial candidate in Ontario's history.
		After Macphail lost her seat in the Ontario legislature, a campaign began to convince Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent to appoint her to the Senate, even though she had despised the unelected body and said it should be abolished.
	www.elections.ca /eca/eim/article_search/article.asp?id=108&lang=e&frmPageSize=&textonly=false (3249 words)

	CCHeritage - Agnes Macphail
		But Agnes was not celebrated primarily as a fighter for women’s suffrage; her campaigns were mainly for cooperation and against war, for a better deal for the farmers, and against the existing Canadian penal system.
		Agnes was born in 1890 in a three-room log house on a farm in Ontario.
		Agnes supported the Progressives’; anti-imperialism and their quest for Canadian autonomy, but it was her championing of the advancement of women, peace, and prison reform that really set her apart.
	www.ccheritage.ca /biographies/agnesmacphail.php (1227 words)

	Agnes Macphail@Everything2.com
		Agnes Macphail's legacy is not merely that she was a woman elected to do a task that had, up until her election, only ever been performed by men.
		Macphail was born and raised in a predominantly rural area and she subsequently grew up well aware of the troubles and problems (predominantly economic in nature) facing farmers in Canada.
		Agnes Campbell Macphail was a key figure in the evolution of Canadian parliament and remains an inspiration to women across the country that want to stand up for their communities (rural, like Macphail's, or otherwise) and make a positive difference for their country.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=682355 (1658 words)

	O'Malley / MacPhail
		Macphail was re-elected in the 1925, 1926, and 1930 federal elections.
		Another one of Macphail's issues was penal reform; her efforts led to the formation of the investigative Archambault Commission in 1936.
		MacPhail was also the first Canadian woman delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked with the World Disarmament Committee.
	www.fallengoddess.com /html/o_malley___macphail.html (2389 words)

	Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Transcript of Debates. Issue number: L043A - Thu 25 Jun 1992 / Jeu 25 Jun 1992
		Agnes Macphail should be remembered because she was born and raised locally, so coming from a rural community, being a politician of any sort wasn't to be expected.
		Agnes Macphail was a true Canadian hero, and this bill gives us an opportunity to celebrate her for all women, for all Ontarians and indeed for all Canadians.
		Agnes Macphail, as you heard, who ran for the Progressive Conservative Party at one stage and was a member, was also a member of the CCF and embraced the beliefs of the CCF and also much of the wonderful Liberal ideology that we of the Liberal Party embrace.
	www.ontla.on.ca /house-proceedings/transcripts/files_html/1992-06-25_l043a.htm (18773 words)

	Macphail, Agnes Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Macphail was elected to Parliament in 1921 in the first federal election in which women were permitted to run for election.
		She was a champion of the underdog, not only of struggling farmers but of miners who were on strike for better wages and all the poor and underprivileged.
		Macphail worked as a journalist after her electoral defeat.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0005013 (331 words)

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		Agnes Macphail was born sometime in 1890, in Guy County, Ontario.
		In 1912 Agnes Macphail was elected to the House of Commons, she was the first woman ever to sit in the Commons, and for 14 years she was the only woman there.
		Agnes Macphail died sometime in 1954 but she is still well known today for what she did while she was alive.
	www.k12.nf.ca /stmarks/grassroots/2001-02/biographies/social/macphail.htm (222 words)

	Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality by Joan Sangster (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because of her stature as an MP, Macphail was afforded an opportunity to speak to a wide audience, whether it was on the topic of Cape Breton miners, the needs of farmers, or women's equality.
		While Macphail's rural populism, her long-standing belief in the integrity of the family farm and her dislike of corporate interests are quite clearly articulated in her career, her views on women and feminism were sometimes more contradictory.
		Crowley implies that Macphail's success was ultimately her practical understanding that electoral and pressure politics, and especially gradual reform, were the only way to advance gender and social equality.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/723/macphail5.html (914 words)

	Agnes Campbell Macphail - Canadian Women in Government - Celebrating Women's Achievements
		Despite resistance to the nomination of a female candidate, Macphail triumphed in the 1921 federal general election to become the first woman ever elected to the House of Commons.
		Amid opposition and ridicule from fellow Parliamentarians, Macphail took a particular interest in both the representation of her rural constituents and the fight for penal reform.
		New MPPs were usually sworn in by alphabetical order; however, on February 23, 1944, Agnes Macphail was sworn in first, making her the first Ontario woman member, and Rae Luckock was sworn in as the second.
	www.collectionscanada.gc.ca /women/002026-826-e.html (484 words)

	CM Magazine: Agnes Macphail: Champion of the Underdog (Quest Library, 5).
		Macphail was born in 1890, absorbed talk of farmers' difficulties with her mother's milk, and grew up determined to get an education and to do something worthwhile with her life.
		In 1921, Agnes Macphail was selected by the United Farmers' party as their nominee to run for election to the House of Commons in the riding of South-East Grey in Ontario.
		This biography lacks excitement, somehow, and Agnes, despite her love of music and dancing, comes across as a somewhat stodgy character, a bit too admirable to be true.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol7/no11/macphail.html (690 words)

	Agnes Campbell Macphail - Canadian Women in Government - Celebrating Women's Achievements (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite resistance to the nomination of a female candidate, Macphail triumphed in the 1921 federal general election to become the first woman ever elected to the House of Commons.
		Amid opposition and ridicule from fellow Parliamentarians, Macphail took a particular interest in both the representation of her rural constituents and the fight for penal reform.
		New MPPs were usually sworn in by alphabetical order; however, on February 23, 1944, Agnes Macphail was sworn in first, making her the first Ontario woman member, and Rae Luckock was sworn in as the second.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-826-e.html (474 words)

	A Brief History of Agnes Macphail
		Agnes Macphail began her career as a country schoolteacher.
		In 1919 women gained the right to run for Parliament, and Macphail was elected in 1921, the first federal election in which women had the vote.
		In 1929, she became the first Canadian woman to be sent as a delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva, where she was an active member of the World Disarmament Committee.
	www.angelfire.com /cantina/mysiteonagnesmaphail (239 words)

	Agnes Macphail :: section15.ca
		Agnes never was prepared to let society’s view or treatment of women determine her direction or her actions.
		Agnes Macphail understood communities under stress - whether it was farmers or miners in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, or prison inmates or people living in the aftermath of war.
		To Macphail, feminism implied a willingness to human rights first, to tackle women’s special concerns as well as the questions that men confronted, and to challenge stereotypes with humour.” She fought for women to have equal access to divorce, for family allowance and old age pensions, and for pay equity.
	www.coolwomen.org /coolwomen/cwsite.nsf/vwWeek/35B5681AD8B50FC88525653F006D54B8?OpenDocument (1011 words)

	Agnes Macphail: Reformer. by Linda Rae (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During her long career as an elected representative (eighteen years an mp and five an mpp in Ontario), she was associated with a variety of issues which drew both the ire and admiration of the nation.
		Macphail's humanitarian appeal on behalf of the miners in Nova Scotia is immediately followed by her remarks on divorce.
		Once in Ottawa, Macphail's ideas were shaped and redefined by the implacable hostility she encountered; she was doubly isolated as a woman and as a radical agrarian.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/714/agnes19.html (746 words)

	Agnes Macphail Digital Collection: What's New
		One of Agnes Macphail's letters to her constituents in which she details the recent topics discussed in the House of Parliament, including the Budget and cadet training, and shares her opinions upon those subjects, as well as describing her social experiences as an MP in Ottawa.This letter was...
		Agnes Macphail's comment on a page of her 1952 scrapbook with two postcards of Scotland, titled: "Castle and Princes Street Edinburgh" with the MacGregor crest and family tartan background; and, "Edinburgh Castle and Ross Fountain" with Cameron crest and family tartan background.After a few days...
		Letter from Agnes Macphail to her constituents in Grey County.Ottawa, February 6, 1928 Dear Friends:- Before I always sent my letter to the Secretary of the Club, but this time I am trying the experiment of sending you each a letter, though I am sorry to say all of them are the same.
	images.ourontario.ca /macphail/WhatsNew.asp (1637 words)

	Macphail, Agnes Campbell \| UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography \| Find Articles at BNET.com
		Macphail, however, believed women were equal to men and spent her lifetime trying to prove it.
		Agnes Campbell Macphail was born March 24, 1890, in a primitive, three-bedroom log cabin in Proton Township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
		Macphail reported to the House of Commons in March of 1922 and tried to steer her way though the throng of parliament members gathered in front of the legislative chamber.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_gx5229/is_2003/ai_n19152745 (867 words)

	Musée McCord Museum - Agnes Campbell MacPhail
		Agnes Campbell Macphail (1890-1954) was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons.
		Macphail was born in Proton Township, Grey County, Ontario.
		After losing her federal seat in 1940, Macphail ran provincially in 1943 for the CCF in East York and became one of the first women elected to the Ontario Legislature.
	www.mccord-museum.qc.ca /en/collection/artifacts/C-006908 (277 words)

	Planning Division
		In 1921 Agnes Campbell Macphail, a Grey County, Ontario, schoolteacher, won the nomination as the United Farmers of Ontario (U.F.O.) candidate for South-East Grey.
		In the first federal election in which women had the vote, Macphail went on to win her riding, becoming the first woman to be elected to the Parliament of Canada.
		Macphail continued her political career by becoming one of the first two women to be elected to the Ontario legislature.
	city.owen-sound.on.ca /planning/collection-plaque.cfm?ID=105 (143 words)

	Agnes - Origin and Meaning of the name Agnes at BabyNamesWorld
		Agnes is often claimed to have an alternative meaning of "lamb," probably due to its similarity to the Latin "agnus." Agnes and its related forms were very popular in Europe before the Reformation, but later lost popularity in Protestant countries due to its association with a non-Biblical saint.
		St Agnes was a Roman virgin martyr, and is the patron saint of young girls.
		Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons.
	www.babynamesworld.com /meaning_of_Agnes.html (160 words)

	Planning Division
		In 1921 Agnes Campbell Macphail, a Grey County, Ontario, schoolteacher, won the nomination as the United Farmers of Ontario (U.F.O.) candidate for South-East Grey.
		In the first federal election in which women had the vote, Macphail went on to win her riding, becoming the first woman to be elected to the Parliament of Canada.
		Macphail continued her political career by becoming one of the first two women to be elected to the Ontario legislature.
	www.e-owensound.com /planning/collection-plaque.cfm?ID=105 (143 words)

	Virtual Exhibit Page 3
		Agnes Campbell Macphail of Artemesia Township, running as a candidate for the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO), became Canada's first female member of Parliament (MP) just two years after Canadian women had been granted both the right to vote and the right to be elected to the House of Commons.
		Biographers of Agnes Macphail include Terry Crowley, Doris Pennington, Margaret Stewart and Doris French, Rachel Wyatt, and most recently Donna Mann of Grey County, whose book on Agnes's childhood, Aggie's Storms, is directed to children.
		Agnes was fearless, stubborn, eloquent, honest, tireless, witty, democratic, inclusive, and the champion of those who others overlooked.
	www.greyhighlandsmuseum.com /exhibit3/vexmain3.htm (293 words)

	On This Day - Dec. 6, 1921 - CBC Archives
		In this radio excerpt, Macphail offers her thoughts on the absence of women in public life almost three decades after her historic win.
		Macphail represented the rural Ontario riding of Grey South East for the United Farmers of Ontario.
		• In 1943, Agnes Macphail, along with Margarette Rae Luckock, was one of the first two women elected to the legislative assembly of Ontario.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-1994-12753-10/on_this_day/politics_economy/twt (636 words)

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