Caroline Kate (Kay) Young (born January 30, 1944) is a former Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Terra Nova in the

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from 1993 to 1996 as a member of the

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. The daughter of Wallace Diamond and Nellie Emberley, she was born Caroline Kate Diamond in

Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador Whitbourne is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in Division 1. History Whitbourne, Newfoundland's first inland town, is named after Sir Richard Whitbourne, one of the most colourful early settlers of Newfound ...

and was educated at

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. She was a teacher in

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from 1967 to 1993. She married Walter Young. She defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Glen Greening to win a seat in the

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assembly in 1993. Young was Minister of Social Services and Minister responsible for the Status of Women. She ran unsuccessfully in the redistributed riding of

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in 1996, losing to Roger Fitzgerald.

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