Mabel Margaret DeWare ( Keiver; 9 August 1926 – 17 August 2022) was a Canadian politician, senator, and curler. DeWare was born in

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, New Brunswick, to parents Mary and Hugh Keiver. She skipped her team to a

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and Canadian Curling Association Ladies Curling championship in , forerunner to the

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. In

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, she was elected to the

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as a member of the

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. She was re-elected in

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and was defeated in

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. She held three cabinet positions: Minister of Labour and Manpower (1978–1982), Minister of Community Colleges (1983–1985), and Minister of Advanced Education (1985–1987). In 1990, she was appointed to the

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representing the senatorial division of Moncton, New Brunswick. A Progressive Conservative, she was the Opposition

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in the Senate from 1999 to 2001. She retired on her 75th birthday. She was inducted in the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame in 1976 and the

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as curler/builder in 1987. DeWare died in Moncton on 17 August 2022, eight days after turning 96.

Electoral results

1987 election

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gain from Progressive Conservative , align=Swing, , align=+28.17, , colspan=2,

1982 election

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1978 election

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References

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