Rae Luckock

Overview

Rae Luckock (née Margarette Rae Morrison) born Arthur, Ontario, Canada October 15, 1893 (d. 1972). Canadian peace activist; social reformer; feminist. One of first women elected to provincial legislature, 1943; first president Congress of Canadian Women, promoting friendship and visits to USSR and China, 1950. Once barred from US for alleged communism.

Quotations

"To save our children and families from the horrors of atomic war and from the cancer and leukemia producing effects of nuclear tests remains one of our most urgent tasks." (1956 National Congress of Canadian Women; photo collectionscanada. gc)