''For the British translator and author, see Nancy Bell (author).'' Ann Elizabeth Haddon "Nancy" Heath Bell (May 26, 1924 – November 29, 1989) was a

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. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister

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in 1970 and sat as a

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representing Nanaimo-Malaspina,

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. Independently minded, she did not believe in

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and often voted against legislation proposed by the Liberal government. She was a supporter of the

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and opposed the renaming of

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. In 1985, Bell left the Liberal Party to sit as an Independent Senator. Bell died of cancer in 1989 at a hospital in Victoria, while still in office.

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