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= Grace Winona MacInnis = Group member: User:Amethyst0811/sandbox

Personal Life
MacInnis was born on July 25, 1905, in Prince Edward Island, Canada. She was the eldest among six children between James Shaver Woodsworth (J.S. Woodsworth), the first leader of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, later the New Democratic Party), and Lucy Lillian Staples Woodsworth. Their lives and enthusiasm about politics highly influenced MacInnis' ideals as a politician, and a feminist. Her father was a minister of a comfortable Methodist parish. His vocation of ministry could not be going on when he saw the endless misery of the poor and found solutions for the this. Her mother, Lucy, was a teacher and a loving mother to her children, also was known as an liberated thinker who taught her children about birth control, which was illegal at that time. The family had discussion frequently, which encouraged the children to express their thoughts freely. in the year of 1953, she published biography of her father: J.S. Woodsworth- A Man to Remember.

After attending the university of Manitoba and the Sorbonne, she became a teacher, but shortly left to assistant her father in 1931, and later acted as secretary of the CCF party. She married Angus MacInnis in January 1932 who spent 27 years as a CCF member of Vancouver-Kingsway in the House of Commons until his retirement in 1957 due to his failing health, which also confined MacInnis' activities as well. In 1941, she was elected to the British Columbia legislature as one of two members for the riding of Vancouver-Burrad and remained until 1945. In the year of 1960, she was suffered from rheumatoid arthritis which confined her activities completely. It took about 4 years for her to be quiescent. In 1964, his husband Angus MacInnis died. She rested and resumed her activities in NDP, and was elected as a Party Member of Vancouver-Kingsway in 1965. She held senior positions in both CCF Party and its successor, The N.D.P., and was president of the British Columbia Party for 2 terms, both on constituency and provincial levels. She received unanimous support from her party, and resumed her acitivites for 35 years. She passed away on July 10, 1991.