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About Beatrice Trew
- Beatrice Janet Trew (December 4, 1897 - June 4, 1976) was born on December 4, 1897, in Coates Mills, New Brunswick.
- She received teacher training in Fredericton and moved to a school at Manor, Saskatchewan in 1917.
- The following year she taught at Lemsford, where she met and married J.
- Albert Trew, a district farmer.
- When the 'Lemsford Homemakers Club' was formed in 1920, she was elected first secretary-treasurer.
- She later became president of the Swift Current district Homemakers.
- In 1944 she was elected MLA for Maple Creek.
- Defeated in 1948, she returned to her active role in Homemakers and in the local church; she received a life membership in the Lemsford Homemakers Club. Trew was a member of the national council of the CCF for eleven years, and vice-president of the Saskatchewan section of the party for eight years.
- When the Saskatchewan Farmers Union was organized in 1950, she and her husband joined; she became women's district director in 1953, and was elected women's president of the provincial farm union in 1958, a post she held for five years.
- She represented farm union women at three meetings of the Associated Country Women.
- Trew was a member of the Thompson Advisory Planning Committee on Medical Care, which in 1961 laid the groundwork for Canada's first universal medical care plan.
- The committee study took her to England, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
- She died in a traffic accident on June 4, 1976. She is the grandmother of long-time Regina NDP MLA Kim Trew
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