• Hilda Pauline Watson (January 13, 1922 – July 14, 1997) was a Canadian schoolteacher and politician from the Yukon Territory. She was the first woman in...
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    of a major party. Hilda Watson became the first woman to lead her party to victory in a general election in 1978. However, Watson did not win her riding...
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  • Long time Yukon legislator Hilda Watson was elected the party's first leader defeating Yukon MP Erik Nielsen by one vote. Watson had been a member of the...
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    Paul Franklin Watson (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American environmental, conservation and animal rights activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd...
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  • prepared for the territory's first partisan elections but was defeated by Hilda Watson by one vote. With the 1979 federal election, the Tories formed government...
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  • Hilda Watson in Kluane, despite the fact that the Progressive Conservatives won the election overall. McGuire's victory over Watson prevented Watson from...
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  • leader Hilda Watson in her own riding. He became the leader of the Yukon Territory Progressive Conservative Party on December 8, 1978, when Watson resigned...
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  • similarly the first woman in both Canada and the British Empire to do so. Hilda Watson, who became the first leader of the newly formed Progressive Conservative...
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  • to the council were Hilda Watson, Ken McKinnon, Norman Chamberlist, Don Taylor, Clive Tanner, Mike Stutter and Ronald Rivett. Watson and Chamberlist were...
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  • was defeated by Hilda Watson in the 1970 Yukon general election. In the subsequent 1974 Yukon general election he ran against Watson in the new district...
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    Legislative Assembly in an election organized along political party lines. Hilda Watson, the first woman ever to lead a political party into an election in Canada...
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    Hilda Lucia Solis (/soʊˈliːs/; born October 20, 1957) is an American politician and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 1st...
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  • Walker-Sawka – 1967 Leader of a political party which won an election – Hilda Watson – 1978 Leader of a political party with seats in a provincial legislature...
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    the show's second season. They reprised the role of Hilda in the 80-minute movie special, Hilda and the Mountain King, which premiered on 30 December...
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  • Carmacks-Kluane Hilda Watson Appointed to the executive committee. Dawson Mike Stutter Mayo Ronald Rivett Speaker of the Council Watson Lake Don Taylor...
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  • example of early detective fiction with a female protagonist. Nurse Hilda Wade and the Watson-esque Dr. Hubert Cumberledge (narrating) attempt to track down...
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  • the only one of the three party leaders to win his own seat, as both Hilda Watson of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party and Fred Berger of the Yukon...
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    Museum (born 1917) December 24 – Pierre Péladeau, businessman (born 1925) Hilda Watson, Leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (born 1922) 1997...
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  • Berger Kluane Hilda Watson Mayo Gordon McIntyre Ogilvie Eleanor Millard Appointed to executive committee in 1978 Pelly River Stuart McCall Watson Lake Don...
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  • welfare in the territory. Chamberlist and his fellow executive councillor Hilda Watson built a voting bloc with two other non-executive councillors, which gave...
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    hear from Dr. Watson that one of those that he names, Eduardo Lucas, has been murdered. Before Holmes has a chance to act, Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope...
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  • along with Edna Watson, after a campaign by The Women's Suffrage Society for their election to the House of Assembly in 1948. Hilda D. Smith was born...
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  • but exotic Hilda Lessways. The second novel in the series parallels Edwin Clayhanger's story from the point of view of his eventual wife, Hilda, telling...
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  • Name Took office Left office Alexander Hayes 1952 1958 John Livesey 1958 1964 Bob MacKinnon 1964 1967 John Livesey 1967 1970 Hilda Watson 1970 1974...
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  • Quebec, Liberal Thelma Forbes, 1966, Manitoba, Progressive Conservative Hilda Watson, 1970, Yukon, Consensus government in Canada Brenda Robertson, 1970,...
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    player Milt Harradence, lawyer, pilot, politician and judge (d. 2008) Hilda Watson, leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (d. 1997) January...
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    Assembly Years Member Party 23rd  1974–1978     Hilda Watson Independent 24th  1978–1982     Alice McGuire Liberal 25th  1982–1985     Bill Brewster Progressive...
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    married Hilda Mary Gardiner, a dancer and mime artist, and follower of the actor Edward Gordon Craig. They had a daughter, Mary Spencer Watson (1913–2006)...
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    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and...
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  • poets less frequently, e.g. Shakespeare). He privately calls his wife, Hilda, "She Who Must Be Obeyed", a reference to the fearsome queen in H. Rider...
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