Thérèse Casgrain

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About Thérèse Casgrain

Marie Thérèse Casgrain was a 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 weapons and was a consumer activist. A strong federalist, one of her last political actions, at age 83, was to intervene on the "No" side in the 1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 10.

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Canadian politician (died 1981). This page is tagged with History & Public Life, Historical, Canadian.

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