Louise McKinney
Former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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. Wikipedia
Born: September 22, 1868, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Canada
Died: July 10, 1931 (age 62 years), Claresholm, Canada
Education: Former Ottawa Teachers’ College (1886)
Party: Alberta Non-Partisan League
Previous office: Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1917–1921)
Spouse: James McKinney (m. 1896)