Ellen Fairclough

Ellen Loucks Fairclough , born the January 28th 1905 with Hamilton, Ontario with the Canada was the first woman member of a Canadian ministerial cabinet and the first woman Prime Minister in Canada during an interim.

Youth

Fairclough was first of all accountant of formation, and made of it its first trade with entering in policy. It was a member of the Municipal council of the Town of Hamilton of 1945 with 1950.

Political career

It was then the first with being elected with the House of Commons of Canada in 1950 with the elections after being beaten in 1949 with the federal elections. Thereafter, it represented Western Hamilton for the progressist-conservatives, until it loses its seat with the elections in 1963. Like member of the Parliament, it was made lawyer of the women's rights with for stake; an equal work, equal wages.

When the Parti progressist-conservative seized the power with the federal elections of 1957, the new Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker, appointed it Secretary of State for Canada. In 1958, it became Ministre for the citizenship and Immigration, and 1962 until its defeat in 1963, where it became Minister for the Stations. As Minister for Immigration in 1962, introduced Fairclough of new rules which drew aside racial elimination and discrimination in the immigration policy. It introduced also more liberal laws for the refugees, and increased the number of immigrants authorized in Canada. Although she was opposed to the recruitment of homosexual in important stations. The recruiting of Alan Jarvis as director of the National Gallery became a work of was fiction in novelle a What' S Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (cf Judith Skelton Grant, Man off Myth) .

Prime Minister

Fairclough was also the first woman Prime Minister in exercise of Canada of the February 19th to the February 20th 1958. In 1993, it named Kim Campbell as leader of the party of the Progressistes conservatives, after Campbell became the first woman Prime Minister of Canada.

After the political life

After having left the political life, Fairclough worked for a management company of inheritance, and sat at the same time at Ontario Hydro.

In 1979, it was made Officier about Canada, and was pomut Compagnion in 1994. At the end of 1996, it accepted the Order of Ontario, the highest honor of the provinces.

Fairclough was very active with the Association of the Consumers of Canada, the Guides of Canada, the I.O.D.E, the United Empire Loyalist Association, and the Zonta Club of Hamilton and Zonta International, front, during and after its functions in policy. In 1982, an Office of a tower to the corner of McNab and King Street in Hamilton was officially baptized " Ellen Fairclough Building".

It had the honor rare to be rewarded for the title of Right Honourable granted in 1992 by Its Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the circle closed of some people to have the title which was not a Prime Minister of Canada, General governor, or Minister for the Justice of Canada. That was thus, in share, because it was a Prime Minister of February 19 - 20, 1958, and the first woman has to be there. In 1995, it published its memories, Saturday' S Child : Memories of the first woman minister.

She is extinct in Hamilton, in her birthplace in Ontario saturdays November 13rd 2004, a few weeks before her hundredth birthday. Her Gordon husband and his Howard son it had both preceded.

The June 21st 2005, the post office of Canada published a stamp in the honor of Ellen Fairclough and other Canadian notable women.

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