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An important milestone for Canadian women was reached on this date in 1930. It came when Senator Cairine Wilson delivered her inaugural remarks in the Red Chamber. These were the first words a female Senator ever made in the Senate. Appointed on the advice of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, this Montreal-born advocate for greater roles for women in politics would serve in the Senate until her death, while still in office, in 1962.
“I desire to remove the misapprehension that a woman cannot engage in public affairs without deserting the home and neglecting the duties that motherhood imposes upon her,” she told her new colleagues on February 25, 1930. “Sometimes I am amused to hear this argument on the lips of certain fathers who are utterly indifferent to the upbringing of their sons and leave that solemn obligation, to the mother alone. A man is supposed to devote his time to the material needs of his family.
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