CANADA: First Senator

In gold-frogged gown and many-curled wig, the Right Honorable Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, "possessor," according to Jeremy Bentham, "of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated," ruled some months ago that the section of Canada's constitution forbidding women from holding legislative office was a "completely outmoded relic of medieval civilization." Last week the appointment of Mrs. Norman MacKay Wilson, first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Senate, was announced by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and her appointment officially approved by Governor-General Viscount Willingdon.†

Worthy of the honor is capable Mrs. Senator Wilson. Wife of a past member of the House of Commons, daughter of a Senator, she is a member of innumerable social service committees, Honorary President of the National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada, and mother of eight children.