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295:(CCF) at its inception in 1932 and served as a local party activist. She ran for the Toronto school board five times before winning election as a trustee on her sixth try in January 1943. Later that year she was the CCF's successful candidate in Bracondale for the provincial election and resigned her position on the school board.
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Premier Drew's education curriculum change that introduced a religious education course that could promote
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553:"Six Women Elected as Trustees in 1943"
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324:Members of Provincial Parliament
172:Politician, Activist, Seamstress
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183:Margarette Rae Morrison Luckock
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25:Margarette Rae Morrison Luckock
745:Star Staff (7 February 1945).
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875:"LUCKOCK, Margaret Rae"
455:List of peace activists
389:Labor-Progressive Party
291:Rae Luckock joined the
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