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	Ellen Fairclough - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Fairclough was also the first female Acting Prime Minister of Canada from February 19 to February 20, 1958.
		Fairclough was active in the Consumers Association of Canada, the Girl Guides, the I.O.D.E., the United Empire Loyalist Association, and the Zonta Club of Hamilton and Zonta International, before, during and after her stay in office.
		Ellen Fairclough, External links, 1905 births, 2004 deaths, Companions of the Order of Canada, People from Hamilton, Ontario, Members of the 18th Ministry in Canada, Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Ontario, Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs and Postmasters General of Canada.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ellen_Fairclough (638 words)

	Hamilton Community Foundation - Ellen Fairclough
		The late Ellen Fairclough's contributions to public life are widely known: her groundbreaking leadership as Canada's only female Member of Parliament in 1950 and her status as the country's first female federal cabinet minister in 1957.
		Ellen was no stranger to Hamilton Community Foundation, having served as a board member and chair of the board in the 1970s.
		When Ellen passed away in late 2004 at the age of 99, a share of the residue of her estate was added to the fund.
	www.hcf.on.ca /pages/giving/donorstories/educational/fairclough.htm (404 words)

	Ellen Louks Fairclough - Canadian Women in Government - Celebrating Women's Achievements
		Prior to her election as an M.P., Ellen Fairclough held executive positions in various organizations: Consumers' Association of Canada, Girl Guides, I.O.D.E., United Empire Loyalist (U.E.L.) Association, Zonta Club of Hamilton and Zonta International.
		Fairclough was a delegate to the inauguration of the Federation of British West Indies Parliamentarians, April, 1958, and an Ambassador Extraordinary to the inauguration of President Frondizi of Argentina, May, 1958.
		Ellen Fairclough for the significant contribution she made to Canadian political life, for being, 20 years ago today, the only woman in Canadian political history to serve as Acting Prime Minister, and requests that the Speaker write a letter of congratulations to the Hon.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-824-e.html (486 words)

	Fairclough, Ellen Louks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ellen Fairclough was the first woman to be a federal CABINET minister in Canada.
		Others before her had been members of the Cabinet in provincial legislatures, but she was the first to serve as a Cabinet minister in the HOUSE OF COMMONS.
		Fairclough has received several honours and awards in recognition of her work, including the Dame of Grace, Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaler (1985), the Persons Awards (1989); the title "Right Honourable" (1992), and Companion of the Order of Canada (1995).
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	Ellen Fairclough
		The Right Honourable Ellen Louks Fairclough (January 28, 1905–November 13, 2004) was the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet.
		Fairclough, who was born in Hamilton, Ontario, was a chartered accountant by training, and ran an accounting firm prior to entering politics.
		As Immigration Minister in 1962, Fairclough introduced new regulations that mostly eliminated racial discrimination in immigration policy.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/e/el/ellen_fairclough.html (377 words)

	Saturday's Child: Memoirs of Canada's First Female Cabinet Minister. by Jill Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ellen Fairclough was Canada's first female cabinet minister, appointed in 1957 by John Diefenbaker.
		Fairclough 'was a pioneer in virtually everything she did' (xiii), and her text is a 'good read' (viii).
		Fairclough's chapter on her cabinet years is titled 'Endless Days,' and her capacity for work in these demanding jobs shows her to be a true 'Saturday's Child' who works hard for a living.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/774/child9.html (746 words)

	Ellen Fairclough - TheBestLinks.com - February 19, February 20, Hamilton, Ontario, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1950 by-election afer being defeated in the 1949 Canadian election.
		In 1958 she became Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and then from 1962 until her defeat in 1963 she was Postmaster General.
		She was granted the rare hounour of being sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada with the title Right Honourable in 1992, one of very few people who had been neither Prime Minister of Canada, Governor General, nor Chief Justice of Canada to have the title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Ellen_Fairclough.html (272 words)

	Groupe CNW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fairclough was the first woman federal cabinet minister, the first woman in Canadian political history to serve as Acting Prime Minister and the only female postmaster general.
		And though she retired from the give-and-take of active political life, Ellen Fairclough continued to be a key player in her native Hamilton.
		Fairclough the title "Right Honourable", in recognition of her service, including the two-day period she was Acting Prime Minister of Canada.
	www.newswire.ca /fr/releases/archive/June2005/17/c3161.html?view=print (664 words)

	Equal Voice - What's New
		Fairclough was a trailblazer, clearing the path for many female politicians who followed her.
		Fairclough, an accountant between 1935 and 1957, served on the boards of many agencies, foundations and charities and received numerous honours, including being named to the Order of Canada in 1980.
		Fairclough was predeceased by her husband Gordon and son Howard.
	www.equalvoice.ca /news_ellen_112304.htm (385 words)

	Paying tribute to a political pioneer - Parry Sound
		Fairclough was a trailblazer on many social and political fronts, and she cleared the path for the many female politicians who followed her.
		Ellen was just two months shy of her 100th birthday, and her life was a full one.
		During her parliamentary career, Ellen represented the country on several occasions at official events abroad, acting as an advisor to the Canadian delegation to the United Nations and representing Canada at the 1955 Conference of Parliamentarians from NATO countries in Paris.
	www.parrysoundnorthstar.com /1101327406/printable (652 words)

	Ellen Fairclough
		Ellen Louks Fairclough (born January 28 1905) was the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet.
		Fairclough was a chartered accountant by training and ran an accounting firm prior to entering politics.
		She was granted the rare hounour of being sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada with the title Right Honourable in 1992.
	www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/e/el/ellen_fairclough.html (227 words)

	Amazon.ca: Saturday's child: Memoirs of Canada's first female cabinet minister: Books: Ellen Louks Fairclough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ellen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister.
		Fairclough discusses the political factors that led to her appointment to the Diefenbaker cabinet as well as other factors, including family values and the opportunities available in the bustling industrial city of Hamilton, that served as the context for her successes.
		The source of much media attention during her political career, Ellen Fairclough was often the only woman in a room full of men and, on one occasion, was asked to leave a cabinet meeting because the topic of discussion - sexual assault - might be too rough for her sensitive ears.
	www.amazon.ca /Saturdays-child-Memoirs-Canadas-minister/dp/0802007368 (931 words)

	Ellen Fairclough \| Canadian Political Leader
		Ellen Fairclough was the first female to be appointed to a cabinet position in the federal government.
		In 1975, Fairclough was named "Woman of the Year" by the Province of Ontario.
		Fairclough was given special recognition by the House of Commons in 1978 for her parliamentary contribution.
	www.canada-heros.com /fairclough_ellen.html (161 words)

	CIC Canada \| Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977
		This was Ellen Fairclough, the vivacious Member of Parliament from Hamilton, Ontario, who in 1957 had become the first woman to serve as a federal Cabinet Minister when the Prime Minister appointed her Secretary of State during his initial term in office.
		Unfortunately, Fairclough's political fortunes took a drubbing during her first two years in Citizenship and Immigration, largely because of problems triggered by a deepening recession and the large influx of unskilled sponsored workers and sponsored family workers without paid employment.
		He congratulated Ellen Fairclough for placing "immigration policy in its proper context as part of foreign policy" and speculated that the new regulations were ahead of public opinion and more liberal than those the Minister could have obtained had she tabled a new Immigration Act.
	www.cic.gc.ca /english/department/legacy/chap-6.html (3495 words)

	Ellen Louks Fairclough Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Born in Hamilton, Ontario, on Jan. 28, 1905, Ellen Louks was the daughter of Norman Ellsworth Cook and Nellie Bell Louks.
		In 1949 in the general election Fairclough won the nomination as the Progressive Conservative candidate for a seat in the House of Commons from the constituency of Hamilton West, but she failed to unseat the incumbent.
		Fairclough's efforts in the House of Commons, however, were not confined to one area.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ellen-louks-fairclough (756 words)

	Stamp Quest \| Stamps : Ellen Fairclough
		She was elected, and in 1957 Ellen Fairclough became the first woman to serve the federal government as a cabinet minister.
		Ellen Fairclough served in cabinet from 1957 until 1963.
		This year, Canada Post recognized her part in that achievement with a domestic rate (50¢) stamp issued on June 21, the day Ellen Fairclough became Canada’s first woman cabinet minister.
	www.postescanada.ca /personal/collecting/stampquest/eng/ellen-e.asp (184 words)

	babble: Honours for Canada's first female Cabinet Minsiter
		Ellen was from the MP from Hamilton West and served as a Minsiter in the government of John Diefenbaker.
		Fairclough's nephew, Sam Woosey, of Vankleek Hill, was surprised to see his aunt's name was not on the list of Liberal and Conservative figures so honoured, although the Ontario Conservative government in 1982 dedicated a provincial building in her honour in Hamilton.
		Fairclough, first elected to the House of Commons in Hamilton West in a 1950 byelection, became a secretary of state in John Diefenbaker's minority government in 1957, making her the first female minister in Canadian and Commonwealth history.
	www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic&f=1&t=005933&go=newer (1924 words)

	Ellen Louks Fairclough - ZDNet
		Ellen Louks Fairclough, PC, CC, FCA (January 28, 1905–November 13, 2004) was the; first female member of the Canadian Cabinet.
		Fairclough was also the first female Acting Prime Minister of Canada from February 19 to February 20, 1958.
		Fairclough was active in the Consumers Association of Canada, the Girl Guides, the I.O.D.E., the United Empire Loyalist Association, and the Zonta Club of Hamilton and Zonta International, before, during and after her stay in office.
	ellen-louks-fairclough.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Ellen_Louks_Fairclough (731 words)

	Fairclough, The Honourable Ellen L., Canadian Women as Citizens
		Fairclough is Canada's first woman cabinet minister; she is our first guest speaker from the Federal Cabinet in this club year, and today is our first Ladies Day for 1957-58--all of which makes this a most happy occasion.
		Currently, she is Hamilton's best known and most respected political figure--having earned her spurs there in the City Council, of which she was an Alderman for four years and a Controller for one, before being elected to the House of Commons in May, 1950.
		FAIRCLOUGH: When, last July, your President invited me to address this club, he suggested that I might speak to you on a subject descriptive of my own personal place in the Government of this country and my reactions thereto.
	www.empireclubfoundation.com /details.asp?SpeechID=587&FT=yes (3189 words)

	Ellen Fairclough Right Honourable January 28 Canadian Cabinet Hamilton, Ontario Member of Parliament equal pay Prime ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Right Honourable Ellen Louks Fairclough PC,CC (January 28, 1905–November 13, 2004) was the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet.
		Ellen Fairclough Ellen Fairclough, an M.P. from 1950, she was the first woman federal minister, serving as Secretary of State, Minister of Citizenship and later as Postmaster General.
		Fairclough, Ellen Fairclough, John Fairley, Eleanor (ABT 1835 - 1891) Fairley, Ralf (1914 - 15 JUL 1957) Fairley, William Fairly, June (Private -) Farish, Jane (1872 -) Farish...
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	Ellen Louks Fairclough - Les femmes canadiennes dans le gouvernement - Femmes à l'honneur : leurs réalisations
		Ellen Louks Fairclough - Les femmes canadiennes dans le gouvernement - Femmes à l'honneur : leurs réalisations
		Fairclough a représenté le Canada à plusieurs reprises à l'occasion de manifestations officielles à l'étranger, notamment à titre de conseillère de la délégation canadienne aux Nations Unies en octobre 1950 et de représentante du Canada à la conférence des parlementaires des pays de l'OTAN à Paris en 1955.
		Fairclough a été déléguée à l'inauguration de la Federation of British West Indies Parliamentarians, en avril 1958, et ambassadrice extraordinaire à l'assermentation du président Frondizi en Argentine en mai 1958.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /femmes/002026-824-f.html (450 words)

	Debates - Issue 17 - November 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yes, honourable senators, Ellen Fairclough was a trailblazer and will be remembered for her many accomplishments, but it was who she was, her character, that truly set her apart.
		Ellen Fairclough is one of those Canadian women whose lives have left a mark not only on their own era but on the history of this country.
		Ellen Fairclough was a recipient of the Order of Canada and had the title of Right Honourable bestowed on her by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
	www.parl.gc.ca /38/1/parlbus/chambus/senate/deb-e/017db_2004-11-23-E.htm?Language=E&Parl=38&Ses=1 (15643 words)

	DGCFO : Ellen Fairclough
		Née en 1905, Mme Fairclough a commencé sa carrière politique à titre de conseillère municipale dans sa ville natale de Hamilton, en Ontario.
		Mme Fairclough a continué de jouer un rôle important au sein de divers organismes après avoir quitté le gouvernement.
		Ellen Louks Fairclough a créé un précédent pour une génération qui non seulement a vécu du changement, mais l'a suscité.
	www.citizenship.gov.on.ca /owd/french/students/fairclough.htm (558 words)

	Ellen Fairclough -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fairclough, who was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Hamilton, Ontario) Hamilton, Ontario, was a (A British accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter) chartered accountant by training, and ran an accounting firm prior to entering politics.
		She was a member of (Click link for more info and facts about Hamilton City Council) Hamilton City Council from 1945 to 1950.
		In 1958, she became Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and from 1962 until her defeat in 1963, she was (The official in charge of the national postal service) Postmaster General.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/ellen_fairclough.htm (506 words)

	Equal Voice - What's New
		Canada’s first woman to sit in the federal cabinet, Ellen was a pioneer on many social and political fronts.
		From the very early days of her marriage, she managed and enjoyed what she calls her “double days” with family and career, the career being a chartered accountant and a civic politician in her hometown of Hamilton.
		Ellen was defeated at the polls in the April 1963 general election.
	www.equalvoice.ca /news_012004.htm (256 words)

	Ellen Fairclough remembered by scholarship at McMaster University
		Ellen Fairclough, the first woman federal minister, will be remembered at McMaster University with the establishment of The Ellen Louks Fairclough Memorial Scholarship in Political Science.
		Fairclough, who passed away November 13, will be remembered at McMaster University with the establishment of The Ellen Louks Fairclough Memorial Scholarship in Political Science.
		In her 13-year career as a Member of Parliament from Hamilton and as a Cabinet Minister in the Diefenbaker government, Fairclough distinguished herself in several portfolios, including Citizenship and Immigration, Secretary of State, and Postmaster General.
	www.mcmaster.ca /ua/opr/nms/newsreleases/2004/fairclough.html (270 words)

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