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About Louise McKinney
Louise McKinney was a Canadian politician, temperance advocate, and women's rights activist. She was the first woman elected into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman to serve in a legislature in the British Empire. She served in the Alberta legislature from 1917 to 1921 as a member of the Non-Partisan League. Later, she was one of the Famous Five who successfully campaigned for the right of Canadian women to be appointed to the Senate. A former schoolteacher and temperance organizer, she came to Alberta in 1903 as a homesteader.
Everything about Louise McKinney →- Occupation
- politician, human rights defender, suffragette, activist
- Position held
- member of Alberta Legislative Assembly
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Born
- September 22, 1868
- Died
- July 10, 1931