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Grace MacInnis

Grace Winona MacInnis (née Woodsworth) (July 25 1905 – July 10 1991) was a Canadian politician and feminist.

The daughter of Cooperative Commonwealth Federation founding leader J.S. Woodsworth, MacInnis was a politician in her own right championing issues such as family planning, affordable housing, abortion rights and women's equality. She was a founding member of the CCF and served as an MLA in the British Columbia legislative assembly from 1941 to 1945, on the executive of the national CCF and in the Canadian House of Commons as a Member of Parliament representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party of Canada from 1965 until her retirement in 1974.

Her husband was longtime CCF MP Angus MacInnis.

See also British Columbia New Democratic Party








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