death_date predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
may 11 , 1967 gordon chown bud sherman winnipeg , manitoba liberal member of parliament for winnipeg south april 30 , 1899 1963 margaret konantz
 1965 margaret mctavish konantz humanitarian
margaret konantz

margaret mctavish konantz , née rogers -lrb- april 30 , 1899 - may 11 , 1967 -rrb- was a canadian politician , who represented the electoral district of winnipeg south in the canadian house of commons from 1963 to 1965 .
she was the first woman elected to the house of commons from manitoba .
she was the daughter of robert arthur rogers , a businessman , and edith rogers , the first woman ever elected to the legislative assembly of manitoba .
she married gordon konantz in 1922 .
during world war ii , margaret konantz was an active volunteer for the patriotic salvage corps , bundles for britain and the women 's volunteer services .
in 1944 , she was one of four women sent to great britain by the canadian government to work with the women 's voluntary service .
she was awarded the order of the british empire posthumously for her volunteer work in the war effort .
following the death of her husband in 1954 , she volunteered for unicef , travelling to japan , taiwan , hong kong , the philippines , thailand , cambodia , india , pakistan , iraq , lebanon , jordan , israel , ghana , nigeria , south africa , rhodesia , tanzania , kenya , uganda , ethiopia and the united arab republic on behalf of the organization .
she originally stood as the liberal candidate for winnipeg south in the 1962 election , but was defeated by progressive conservative incumbent gordon chown .
when the minority government of john diefenbaker fell the following year , however , konantz defeated chown in the 1963 election .
in 1964 she was the only woman on a committee of 15 mps selected by prime minister lester pearson to choose a new flag for canada .
she served as an mp until the 1965 election , when she was defeated by new progressive conservative candidate bud sherman .
also in 1963 , she was a delegate to the united nations third committee on social , economic and humanitarian problems .
in this capacity , she toured a number of indian reserves in canada to study economic and health conditions .
following her electoral defeat in 1965 , she became national chair for unicef canada .
she undertook several further international tours until her death in 1967 .
