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Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980)

Auteur de Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

3 oeuvres 41 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Comprend les noms: LaMarsh Judy, Judy La Marsh

Œuvres de Judy LaMarsh

Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage (1969) 19 exemplaires
A very political lady: A novel (1979) 12 exemplaires
A Right Honourable Lady (1980) 10 exemplaires

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Autres noms
LaMarsh, Julia Verlyn
Date de naissance
1924-12-20
Date de décès
1980-10-27
Sexe
female
Nationalité
Canada
Lieu de naissance
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Lieux de résidence
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Études
University of Toronto (Victoria College)
Osgoode Hall Law School
Professions
lawyer
politician
translator
broadcaster
autobiographer
novelist
Organisations
Liberal Party of Canada
Canadian Parliament
Prix et distinctions
PC
OC
QC
Courte biographie
Judy LaMarsh, née Julia Verlyn LaMarsh, was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, and raised in Niagara Falls. Although she trained as a teacher at Hamilton Normal School, she never taught school. In 1943, during World War II, she enlisted in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, and was posted to Halifax to work with the Royal Canadian Engineers. She was transferred to Vancouver, where she learned Japanese and served as a Japanese translator for an intelligence operation.

After the war, she attended the University of Toronto, earning a bachelor's degree in 1947, and then studied law at Osgoode Hall at York University, graduating in 1950. She joined her father's law practice in Niagara Falls.

LaMarsh was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member for Niagara Falls in the 1960 by-election. She joined the Cabinet after the Liberals defeated the Progressive Conservative government in the 1963 election. In the government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson, she was only the second woman ever to serve as a federal Cabinet Minister, and the first to serve in a Liberal Cabinet. LaMarsh served as Minister of National Health & Welfare and as Minister of Amateur Sport from 1963 to 1965, and as Secretary of State for Canada from 1965 to 1968. She helped push through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare. She was instrumental in creating the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, a watershed for Canadian women’s rights. She also oversaw the 1966 White Paper on Broadcasting, which became the basis for the Broadcasting Act of 1968, establishing a mandate for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and setting up the Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC). After leaving politics in 1968, she wrote three books: two novels and her Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, published in 1969 to great fanfare and controversy. She had her own television program in Ottawa for a year, and then hosted her own radio shows on CBC Radio. She also returned to law practice and teaching law. LaMarsh became ill with pancreatic cancer and was awarded the Order of Canada at her hospital bed in 1980. She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory in 1980.

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What great fun I had reading this book. It was written in 1979, so really was a trip down memory lane for me: abortion is the hot political issue of the day, a Liberal party leadership convention, back room politics.

Judy La Marsh is a former politician and Minister of the Crown. Her first hand knowledge of life as a woman in the male dominated world of politics served well in writing this compelling story.

I especially like what she said about the book: when she wrote her actual memoirs, everyone said it couldn't be true; when she wrote this novel, everyone thought it was fact.… (plus d'informations)
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LynnB | Aug 18, 2011 |

Statistiques

Œuvres
3
Membres
41
Popularité
#363,652
Évaluation
½ 3.3
Critiques
1
ISBN
5