Margarette Rae Morrison Luckock | |
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 Official portrait of Rae Luckock, MPP | |
| Member of Provincial Parliament | |
| In office 1943–1945 | |
| Preceded by | Lionel Conacher |
| Succeeded by | Harry Hyland Hyndman |
| Constituency | Bracondale |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 October 1893 Arthur, Ontario |
| Died | 24 January 1972 (aged 78) Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | Ontario CCF |
| Spouse | Richard Luckock |
| Residence(s) | Crawford Street, Toronto |
| Occupation | Politician, Activist, Seamstress |
Margarette Rae Morrison Luckock (15 October 1893 – 24 January 1972) known as Rae Luckock. She was a feminist, social justice activist, peace activist and, with Agnes Macphail, one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, in 1943. A member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section), also known as the Ontario CCF, Luckock was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1943 Ontario general election representing Toronto's Bracondale constituency (riding). She served as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) until she was defeated in the 1945 Ontario general election. She became the Congress of Canadian Women's founding president in 1950 and became a victim of the Cold War's anti-communist hysteria when she was denied entry into the United States, because she travelled to "Red" China and invited Soviet women to visit Canada. She contracted Parkinson's disease in the mid-1950s and mostly was bedridden until her death in 1972.