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This article lists notable achievements of women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and gay/lesbian/bisexual and transgender people in Canadian politics and elections in Canada. This list includes: * Members of Parliament—Members of the Canadian House of Commons; * Senators—Members of the Canadian Senate * Governor-General—Canadian Governors General and Lieutenant Governors * Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs); * Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs in Ontario); * Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) in Quebec; and * Members of the House of Assembly (MHAs) in Newfoundland and Labrador. ==Women== Earliest elected woman in Canada (First woman in Canada elected at the federal, provincial or municipal level): Hannah Gale, Alderman in Calgary 1917.〔(Biography, Toronto Star, by Mark Maloney ) Accessed March 10, 2007〕 First woman elected to a legislature in Canada: Louise McKinney, first woman elected anywhere in the British Empire, member 1917–1921 of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Non Partisan League, a left-wing Prohibitionist socialist party. (Roberta MacAdams, a member of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, was also elected in the 1917 Alberta general election, as a member at large in overseas voting by Albertans serving in the First World War. McKinney was the first woman declared elected because the overseas voting was completed after the in-province election.) First woman candidates in a Federal Election Five women ran in the first federal election in which women were allowed to become candidates (1921) (Note: Some women had been granted the right to vote, but not to run as candidates, in the wartime election of 1917. Even in 1921, still many women were denied the right to vote - Treaty Indian women did not get the right to vote until 1960.) * Harriet S. Dick - Winnipeg Centre, Independent ; 2,314 (4th Place, 4/5) * Rose Mary Louise Henderson - St. Lawrence—St. George, Labour Party ; 510 (Last Place, 3/3) * Elizabeth Bethune Kiely ; Toronto East, Liberal ; 52 votes (Last Place, 5/5) * Agnes Macphail - Grey Southeast, Progressive Party ; 6,958 (1st ; 1/3) * Harriet Dunlop Prenter - Toronto West, Labour Party ; 1,741 (Last Place, 3/3) First women elected to the Canadian House of Commons # Agnes Macphail, Progressive, United Farmers of Ontario-Labour, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) MP Grey South and Grey—Bruce, from 1921 to 1940 (She was also one of two women who were the first women as MPPs in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the Ontario CCF (the forerunner to the New Democratic Party) for the riding of York East 1943–1945 and 1948–1951 # Martha Black, Independent Conservative, MP Yukon, 1935–1940 # Dorise Nielsen, Unity (Communist) and Labor-Progressive (Communist) MP North Battleford, Sask. 1940–1945 #Cora Taylor Casselman, teacher, Liberal MP, Edmonton East, 1941–1945 #Gladys Strum, teacher, CCF MP Qu'Appelle (electoral district), Sask., 1945–1949 First female Prime Minister * Kim Campbell, Progressive Conservative Prime Minister 1993 First women in Cabinet * Provincial: Mary Ellen Smith, 1921, British Columbia * Federal: Ellen Fairclough, 1957, Progressive Conservative First female Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons: Jeanne Sauvé, 1980–1984 First female federal Justice Minister (Attorney General): Kim Campbell (Progressive Conservative) First female Defence Minister: Kim Campbell, (Progressive Conservative) First female Speaker of the House * Nancy Hodges British Columbia Liberal, MLA 1941–1953, made speaker of BC legislature in Dec 1949. First female senator: Cairine Wilson, 1930 First female Governor General of Canada: Jeanne Sauvé, (1984–1990) First female Premiers # Rita Johnston, BC, 1991 (Social Credit) # Nellie Cournoyea, Northwest Territories, 1991–1995, (non-partisan consensus government) # Catherine Callbeck, PEI, 1993–1996, (first elected female Premier) (Liberal) # Pat Duncan, Yukon, 2000–2002, (Liberal) # Eva Aariak, Nunavut, 2008-2013, (non-partisan consensus government) # Kathy Dunderdale, Newfoundland and Labrador, 2010-2014, (Progressive Conservative) # Alison Redford, Alberta, 2011-2014, (Progressive Conservative) # Pauline Marois, Quebec, 2012-2014, (Parti Québécois) # Kathleen Wynne, Ontario, 2013–present, (Liberal) (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have not yet had a female premier.) First female MLAs elected in British Columbia: Mary Ellen Smith, Liberal MLA 1918–1928, elected to replace her late husband First female MLA elected in Alberta: Louise McKinney, she was also the first woman elected anywhere in the British Empire, 1917–1921 Alberta Legislature for the Non Partisan League, a left-wing Prohibitionist socialist party. First female MLA elected in Saskatchewan: Sarah Ramsland, Saskatchewan Liberal - Pelly 1919 by-election - 1925. Replaced her husband Max who won the seat in 1917 general election after his death. Was re-elected in 1921 and defeated in 1925. First female MLA elected in Manitoba: Edith McTavish Rogers, Manitoba Liberal MLA 1920–1932 First female MPPs elected in Ontario: * Agnes Macphail and Rae Luckock, CCF (the forerunner to the New Democratic Party MPPs for York East 1943–1945, 1948–1951 and for Bracondale 1943–1945 respectively First female MNA elected in Quebec: Marie-Claire Kirkland, elected in 1961. Also first woman appointed a cabinet minister in Quebec, the first woman appointed acting premier, and the first woman judge to serve in the Quebec Provincial Court. First female MLA elected in New Brunswick: Brenda Robertson, New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA, 1967–1984 First female candidate in P.E.I.: Hilda Ramsay, P.E.I. CCF candidate in 1951 () First female MLA elected in P.E.I.: Jean Canfield, PEI Liberal MLA 1970–1979 First female MHA elected in Newfoundland & Labrador (Pre-Confederation): Helena Squires, MHA 1930–1932 First female MLA elected in Nova Scotia: Gladys Porter, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative MLA 1960–1967 First female MLA elected in Yukon: G. Jean Gordon, Non-Affiliated, MLA 1967–1970 First female MLA elected in Northwest Territories Lena Pedersen (Pederson) in 1970 to 1975 First female MLA elected in Nunavut: Manitok Thompson, Independent, 1999–2003 (Nunavut was created from the Northwest Territories in 1999, so Thompson served in its first legislature.) First female elected in a Nova Scotia municipal election: Mary Teresa Sullivan, Halifax City Council, 1936+ First female elected in an Ontario municipal election: Constance Hamilton, Toronto City Council, 1920–21 First female mayor: Barbara Hanley, Webbwood, Ontario (1936–1944) First female mayor of a city: Charlotte Whitton, Ottawa (1951–1956, 1960–1964) Female presidents of major political parties # Agnes Macphail - Founding President of the Ontario CCF 1932–34 # Gladys Strum - President of Saskatchewan CCF 1944-195? First female Lieutenant Governors * Pauline Mills McGibbon, 22nd Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario 1974-1980 * Pearl McGonigal, 19th Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba 1981-1986 * Helen Hunley, 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta 1985-1991 * Sylvia Fedoruk, 17th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan 1988-1994 * Marion Loretta Reid, 24th Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island 1990-1995 * Margaret McCain, 27th Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1994-1997 * Lise Thibault, 27th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec 1997-2007 * Myra Freeman, 29th Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia 2000-2006 * Iona Campagnolo, 27th Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia 2001-2007 (Newfoundland and Labrador has not yet had a female lieutenant-governor.) First female Commissioners of Canadian territories * Ione Christensen, 10th Commissioner of Yukon 1979 * Helen Maksagak, 13th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories 1995-1999 * Helen Maksagak, 1st Commissioner of Nunavut 1999-2000 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Electoral firsts in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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