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Carolyne Morrison

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She was one of only two women in the Manitoba legislature during the 1960s (the other being her Progressive Conservative colleague
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Born Carolyne McBean in Ridgeville, Manitoba in 1905, to William McBean and Nellie Marshall, Morrison was educated at
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and on the Manitou Hospital Board; she was a news correspondent for the local district for the
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on December 9, 1960, winning easy election in the rural, southern riding of
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by 211 votes. She increased her margin of victory in the
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Index

Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Pembina
Maurice Ridley
George Henderson
Manitou, Manitoba
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
politician
Manitoba
Canada
Progressive Conservative
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Emerson, Manitoba
Brandon
Hugh Morrison
1936
Manitou–Morden
Maurice Ridley
by-election
Pembina
1962 election
Liberal
Charles Cousins
1966 election
1969
backbencher
premiers
Dufferin Roblin
Walter Weir
Thelma Forbes
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

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