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About Charlotte Whitton

Charlotte Whitton was a 19th-century Canadian politician. Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first woman mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. Read more on Wikipedia →

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