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Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.

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Ellen Fairclough

Canadian politician (1905–2004)

Ellen Louks Fairclough was a Canadian politician. A Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1950 to 1963, she was the first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Cabinet.
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Cabinet of Canada

Canadian body of ministers of the Crown

The Canadian Ministry, colloquially referred to as the Cabinet of Canada, is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada. Chaired by the prime minister, the Cabinet is…
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