- Roberta MacAdams
Lt. Roberta Catherine Price née MacAdams (born
July 21 ,1880 Sarnia,Ontario - diedDecember 16 ,1959 Calgary ,Alberta ) was a provincial level politician and war time nurse fromAlberta ,Canada .Though mistakenly referred to as a nursing sister, MacAdams was actually the only dietitian every accepted into the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She was a 1911 graduate of the Macdonald Institute for domestic science, located on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph Ontario. Her enlistment papers listed her as a "nursing sister" because she would be trained and quartered with nurses.Political career
MacAdams was the second woman elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a non-partisan, afterLouise McKinney . She was chosen as an at-large member elected by voters who were active soldiers in First World War. She was elected a close second in the Soldiers' and Nurses vote behind CaptainRobert Pearson .Roberta became the first woman in the British empire to introduce a piece of legislation for debate.
References
Debbie Marshall. "Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A woman's Journey into the Great War", University of Calgary Press, 2007.
External links
* [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ISYS/LADDAR_files%5Cdocs%5Chouserecords%5Cvp%5Clegislature_26%5Csession_2%5C20060307_1200_01_vp.pdf Alberta Legislature Speakers Comment: Historical Moments, Roberta McAdams]
* [http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3279844 Roberta McAdams notice of election Alberta Gazette October 1917]
* [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Alberta Legislature Membership Listing]
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