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2 unusual facts about Canadian Senate divisions


Canadian Senate divisions

Nonetheless, three winners of such elections have been nominated to the Senate: Senator Stan Waters was elected in the Alberta Senate nominee election, 1989, and Senators Bert Brown and Betty Unger were elected Senators-in-Waiting in 2004.

On June 5, 2006 New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord announced his province's support for possible Senate elections to be held during the New Brunswick municipal election cycle, joining Alberta as the only province actively pursuing elected Senators.


Olive Lillian Irvine

A Progressive Conservative, she was appointed to the Canadian Senate on 14 January 1960 on the recommendation of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, and she represented the senatorial division of Lisgar, Manitoba until her death.


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