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♀ Ella Jean Canfield
aliasJean Canfield
Record
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☆   Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 2 5
Birth 4 October 1919 → 104 years + 6 months ago
Lived 81 years + 2 months
First mandate 11 May 1970 → 53 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 7 months
Death 31 December 2000 → 23 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 21 years + 8 months after 22 April 1979
Special notes
None
 
Ella Jean Canfield (1919–2000)
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Upon becoming a Liberal MLA in Queens 1st in the 1970 general election, Canfield was the first woman elected to the Prince Edward Island legislature.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 8 11 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Frank S. Myers  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Marion L. Reid  f  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 2,865 Votes: 2,604 Participation: 90.89% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
51		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25835(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
46
LIB
 2/2 1,184 47.55% -122 Winner:
PC
 1,306 52.45% Frank S. Myers
Eligible: 2,958 Votes: 2,746 Participation: 92.83% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
52		 Prince Edward Island
11 May 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25868(F) — 14 Feb 2022 22:03 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
LIB
 1/2 1,451 55.15% +271 Loser:
PC
 1,180 44.85% Frank S. Myers

Service: 3 years 11 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,048 Votes: 2,753 Participation: 90.32% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
29 April 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25904(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
LIB
 1/2 1,464 56.59% +341 Loser:
PC
 1,123 43.41% Bruce Douglas

Service: 3 years 11 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,175 Votes: 2,812 Participation: 88.57% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4759(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
LIB
 1/2 1,425 51.99% +109 Loser:
PC
 1,316 48.01% Marion L. Reid

Service: 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,342 Votes: 2,905 Participation: 86.92% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
55		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4727(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
59
LIB
 2/2 1,330 46.80% -182 Winner:
PC
 1,512 53.20% Marion L. Reid

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Canfield, Ella Jean		 11 Apr 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Ella Jean Canfield		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Jean Canfield		 11 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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