Mount A Libraries: Allisonian Firsts: 1960s-1990s

First Canadian of Asian descent to be named Rhodes Scholar

First female MLA in New Brunswick

1970

First female cabinet minister in New Brunswick

1972

First female senator from Nova Scotia appointed

1979

First Canadian elected to the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

1981

First female Rhodes Scholar from Mount Allison University

1986

First female Chancellor of Mount Allison University

1987

Brig. Gen. Sheila Hellstrom
First female regular force member to achieve the rank of brigadier-general

1990

First female President of Mount Allison University

1994

First female Lieutenant-Govenor of New Brunswick