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Hazel Rose Newhook (December 24, 1914 – June 26, 2016) was a Canadian politician, who sat in the
Newfoundland House of Assembly The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly is the unicameral deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It meets in the Confederation Building in St. Jo ...
from 1979 to 1985 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives. where she represented the electoral district of Gander. She also served as mayor of Gander from 1973 to 1977. Newhook and her caucus colleague
Lynn Verge Lynn Verge is a Canadian lawyer and politician from Newfoundland and Labrador. She represented the Corner Brook electoral district of Humber East in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1979 to 1996. As of 2016, she serves as the e ...
were appointed to the Executive Council of Newfoundland by Premier
Brian Peckford Alfred Brian Peckford (born August 27, 1942) is a Canadian politician who served as the third premier of Newfoundland from March 26, 1979 to March 22, 1989. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Peckford was first elected as the ...
in 1979, becoming the first two women ever to serve in the provincial cabinet. She was awarded the
Order of Newfoundland and Labrador The Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (french: Ordre du Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador) is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Instituted in 2001, when Lieutenant Governor Arthur Maxwell House granted Roya ...
in 2009. She turned 100 in December 2014 and died on June 26, 2016 at the age of 101.


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1914 births 2016 deaths Mayors of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador Members of the Executive Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador MHAs Women MHAs in Newfoundland and Labrador Members of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador Women mayors of places in Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian centenarians Women government ministers of Canada Women centenarians 20th-century Canadian politicians 20th-century Canadian women politicians {{Newfoundland-politician-stub