Martha Bielish
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Early life
Bielish was born in 1915 in Smoky Lake, Alberta. She served in politics on the municipal level as an elected School Trustee.
Bielish ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1959 Alberta general election as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the electoral district of Redwater. She finished a distant third place in the three-way race behind Social Credit candidate John Dubetz and incumbent MLA Alfred Macyk.[1]
In 1965 she became president of the Alberta's Women's Institute.[2]
Senate career
Bielish was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Joe Clark on September 27, 1979 and served until mandatory retirement on September 26, 1990. She was the first Ukrainian-Canadian woman to sit in the Senate.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- 1915 births
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- Women members of the Senate of Canada
- Canadian senators from Alberta
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada senators
- Canadian feminists
- Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta candidates in Alberta provincial elections
- Women in Alberta politics
- Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
- 20th-century members of the Senate of Canada
- 20th-century Canadian women politicians