1st Queens was an

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in the

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province of

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, which elected two members to the

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from 1873 until the riding was abolished in 1996 with the elimination of dual member ridings. The district comprised the westernmost portion of Queens County. The district holds a unique place in the history of women's participation in Prince Edward Island's provincial politics. In 1970, it elected Jean Canfield to the legislature as the province's first female MLA; in 1979, the election of

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and Leone Bagnall made it the first district in the province's history to elect women to ''both'' of its legislative seats. Reid became the province's first female speaker of the legislature; after her retirement from electoral politics she also became the province's first female

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. In 1993, the district elected Catherine Callbeck, the province's first female

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Members

Dual member

Assemblyman-Councillor

References

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