Thérèse Casgrain
Canadian politician
Died when: 85 years 116 days (1023 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Marie Thérèse Casgrain, CC, OBE., née Forget (10 July 1896 – 3 November 1981) 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 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.
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