Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician (died 1981)

Thérèse Casgrain

French-Canadian suffragist, politician and activist (1896-1981)

Marie Thérèse Casgrain was a French-Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. In her later life she opposed nuclear…