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MacDonald, Roderick Charles, 1885-

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Roderick MacDonald was born in Scotland, coming to Canada in 1907 where he was first employed by the Provincial Government at New Westminster. He eventually established his own business, MacDonald Shoes, in 1917. From 1922 to 1941, he was elected to the municipal council of Coquitlam, B.C., serving as Reeve for eighteen years. In 1941, he was elected MLA to the provincial legislature. From 1946 to 1952, he served as Minister of Mines and Minister of Municipal Affairs.

MacGill (family)

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Helen Gregory was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She attended Trinity College in Toronto, where she was the first woman to receive a B.A., B.Mus. and M.A. from that institution. She married F.C. Flesher and became a mother, journalist and newspaper editor. Following Flesher's death in 1901, she married lawyer J.H. MacGill and had two children by that marriage. Gregory became a social reformer, writing about and lobbying for women's suffrage and better laws for women and children. She served on B.C.'s Minimum Wage Board and was appointed as a judge to the Juvenile Court in 1917. She died in Vancouver. One of her daughters, Elizabeth (also known as Elsie) Gregory MacGill, became an engineer and also wrote a biography of her mother.

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