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2006年2月7日 · In 1998 the debate over King's - and Canada's - role in the conferences erupted again with the unveiling of a statue commemorating the conferences in Québec City. The Québec government under Lucien Bouchard justified the omission of King from the statue by arguing that he played no role in the meetings.
- Education and Early Life
- Personal Life
- Teaching Career
- Early Political Career
- BC MLA
- Member of Parliament and Cabinet
- Party Leader and Prime Minister
- 1993 Federal Election
- Post-Politics
- Honours
Avril Phaedra Campbell was born in Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, in 1947. At age 12, her parents divorced; she and her sister, Alix, then lived with her father, a Vancouverlawyer. It was also around this time that she decided to drop her "unusual" name and instead go by Kim. Campbell served as the first female student council president at Prin...
Campbell married her first husband, UBC math professor Nathan Divinsky, in London, England, in 1972. They separated in 1982. She married her second husband, Victoria lawyer Howard Eddy, In 1986. Since 1997, she has been in a common-law unionwith actor, playwright and concert pianist Hershey Felder.
Upon her return to Canada, Campbell began lecturing in political science. She taught at UBC from 1975 to 1978 and at Vancouver Community College from 1978 to 1981. (See also Community College.)
While enrolled at UBC law school, Campbell was twice elected to the Vancouver School Board. (See also School Boards.) She served as a trustee from 1980 to 1984 and was chair in 1983. She also ran as a Social Creditcandidate in the 1983 provincial election but lost. Campbell began her law career with the firm Ladner Downs. She became widely known th...
In October 1986, Campbell was elected to the provincial legislature as the Social Credit MLA representing Vancouver-Point Grey. Her efforts as an effective backbencher led to changes that rendered the province’s Health Act less discriminatory to the gay community. She also chaired a task force that created a new Heritage Act, which was later passed...
Campbell joined the federal Progressive Conservative Party immediately after leaving the Social Credit party. In November 1988, she won election to the House of Commons representing the riding of Vancouver Centre. In 1989, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed her minister of state for Indian Affairs and Northern Development (now Crown-Indigenous...
By November 1992, Brian Mulroney's popularity was at 12 per cent — the lowest of any prime minister in Canadian history. (See also Public Opinion.) With a federal election due In late 1993, Mulroney announced his resignation in February 1993. Campbell entered the race to succeed him at the party's leadership convention as the front-runner. She won ...
Problems arose on the campaign’s first day. In an accurate but complex analysis of current economic challenges, Campbell said that unemployment would remain high until the turn of the century. She later answered a reporter’s question about social programs by saying, “This is not the time, I don’t think, to get involved in a debate on very, very ser...
Campbell continued to serve Canada. From 1996 to 2000, she was Canada’s consul general in Los Angeles. (See Diplomatic and Consular Representations.) She also chaired Canada’s Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments in 2016 and in 2017. (See Supreme Court of Canada.) In 2001, Campbell helped found the Club de Ma...
Woman of Distinction Award, YWCAVancouver (1994)Woman of the Year, ChatelaineMagazine (1994)Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002)Companion, Order of Canada(2008)2008年4月7日 · Thomas King, CC, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, screenwriter, photographer (born 24 April 1943 in Roseville, California). A Companion of the Order of Canada and winner of a Governor General’s Literary Award, Thomas King is often described as one of the finest contemporary Indigenous writers in North America.
2013年1月29日 · A journalist, Member of the Legislative Assembly, first mayor of Toronto and a leader of the Rebellions of 1837, Mackenzie was a central figure in pre- Confederation political life. His grandson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, was Canada’s longest-serving prime minister.
2021年9月28日 · Canada’s ten largest cities offer a glimpse at the many approaches and issues. All populations are from the 2021 Canadian census and reflect the cities proper, as opposed to the larger census metropolitan area. 1. Toronto: 2,794,356.
