Gladys Strum

Gladys Grace Mae Strum
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Qu'Appelle
In office
1945–1949
Preceded by Ernest Edward Perley
Succeeded by Austin Edwin Dewar
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Saskatoon City
In office
1960–1964
Personal details
Born (1906-02-04)February 4, 1906
Gladstone, Manitoba
Died August 15, 2005(2005-08-15) (aged 99)
Penticton, British Columbia
Political party CCF
Other political
affiliations
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party

Gladys Grace Mae Strum (February 4, 1906 August 15, 2005) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Gladstone, Manitoba, she moved to Saskatchewan when she was 16 to teach. She ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1938 and again in 1944. In 1944, she became president of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the first woman to occupy the position for a provincial party in Canada. She was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1945 for the riding of Qu'Appelle. She was only the fifth woman ever elected to the House of Commons and the only woman in the 20th Canadian parliament. She was defeated in 1949 and 1953.

In 1960, she was elected Saskatoon's first woman in the Saskatchewan legislature.

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Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Preceded by
John H. Sturdy
Member of the Legislative Assembly for Saskatoon City
1960–1964
Served alongside: Arthur T. Stone and Alexander Malcolm Nicholson
Succeeded by
John Edward Brockelbank, Wesley A. Robbins, Sally Merchant, and Harry D. Link
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