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    Flora MacDonald (politician)

    Canadian politician (1926–2015)

    The Honourable

    Flora MacDonald

    PC CC OOnt ONS

    MacDonald, c. 1979

    In office
    June 4, 1979 – March 2, 1980
    Prime MinisterJoe Clark
    Preceded byDon Jamieson
    Succeeded byMark MacGuigan
    In office
    June 30, 1986 – December 7, 1988
    Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney
    Preceded byMarcel Masse
    Succeeded byLowell Murray (acting)
    Marcel Masse
    In office
    September 17, 1984 – June 29, 1986
    Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney
    Preceded byJohn Roberts
    Succeeded byBenoît Bouchard
    In office
    October 30, 1972 – November 20, 1988
    Preceded byEdgar Benson
    Succeeded byPeter Milliken
    Born

    Flora Isabel MacDonald


    (1926-06-03)June 3, 1926
    North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
    DiedJuly 26, 2015(2015-07-26) (aged 89)
    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Political partyProgressive Conservative (1950s–2003)

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    The exceptional story of the politician Flora Isabel MacDonald, who inspired Canadian women by breaking down gender barriers in a world of men.

    Flora Isabel MacDonald - politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women - was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time.

    Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan. Flora was driven by a lifelong conviction that there is nothing a woman cannot achieve in a world controlled by men, and she pursued this conviction in everything she did, carving a pa

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    Flora MacDonald facts for kids

    For the Canadian politician, see Flora MacDonald (politician).

    Flora MacDonald (Gaelic: Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill), 1722 to 5 March 1790, was a member of Clan Macdonald of Sleat, best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. Her family generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation.

    Arrested and held in the Tower of London, she was released under a general amnesty in June 1747. She later married Allan MacDonald and the couple emigrated to North Carolina in 1773. Their support for the British government during the American War of Independence meant the loss of their American estates and they returned to Scotland, where she died in 1790.

    Early life

    Sunset on South Uist, where MacDonald was born in 1722

    Flora MacDonald was born in 1722 at Milton on the island of South Uist in the Outer