Eleanor Millard (born March 4, 1942) is a

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writer and former politician.Eleanor Millard fonds
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Biography

Born in North Vancouver,

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, Millard graduated from the

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in 1965. After graduation, Millard moved to the

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, where she worked as a barmaid at a hotel in

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before finding a permanent job as a

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. She was elected to the

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in the 1974 election, representing the district of

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, and served as Minister responsible for Education, Recreation, Manpower and Housing in her final months in office. In the 1978 election, which was the first partisan election to the new

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, she ran for reelection as an independent candidate in the district of Klondike, losing to

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of the

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. She has since published three books as a writer, the short story collection ''River Child'', the memoir ''Journeys Outside and In'' and the novel ''Summer Snow''. She also leads the Grandparents' Rights Association of the Yukon, an organization which advocates for

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rights in the territory, where for various demographic reasons the number of children being raised by their grandparents instead of their biological parents is fully three times higher than the norm elsewhere in Canada."Grandparents need help raising kids"
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'', December 21, 2012.

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Eleanor Millard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Millard, Eleanor 1942 births Living people Members of the Yukon Territorial Council Women MLAs in Yukon 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian social workers Canadian women novelists Canadian women short story writers Writers from Yukon University of British Columbia alumni 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women memoirists People from Dawson City 21st-century Canadian memoirists