Footsteps in the Corridors
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Agnes Macphail was a force of nature - a woman who broke down the boundaries in Canadian politics and stood up for the voiceless. From 1921 when she first took office, until 1951 (only three years before her death!) when she lost her final election, she was a woman to be reckoned with.
She never married, but here she remembers her life with her grand-niece who realizes that she too walks in her great-aunt's footsteps, as do we all.
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