Thérèse Casgrain
Thérèse Forget Casgrain | |
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Thérèse Forget Casgrain, c. 1942 | |
| Senator for Mille Isles, Quebec | |
| In office October 7, 1970 – July 10, 1971 | |
| Appointed by | Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Gustave Monette |
| Succeeded by | Renaude Lapointe |
| Leader of the Parti social démocratique du Québec | |
| In office 1951–1957 | |
| Preceded by | Romuald-Joseph Lamoureux |
| Succeeded by | Michel Chartrand |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 10, 1896 Saint-Irénée, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | November 3, 1981 (aged 85) |
| Party | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (1945-1961) Parti social démocratique du Québec, New Democratic Party (1961-1970) Independent |
| Spouse | Pierre-François Casgrain (1916–1950; his death) |
| Relations | Sir Rodolphe Forget, father |
| Children | Two daughters, two sons |
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Marie Thérèse Casgrain CC OBE (née Forget; 10 July 1896 – 3 November 1981) 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.