December 29, 2020(2020-12-29) (aged 74) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Political party
Canadian Senators Group (2019–2020)
Other political affiliations
Independent Senators Group (2016–2019) Independent Progressive Conservative (2013–2016) Progressive Conservative (2005–2013) Alberta PC (until 1993)
Alma mater
University of Alberta
Elaine Jean McCoyQC (March 7, 1946 – December 29, 2020) was a Canadian politician from Alberta. She was a member of the Senate of Canada.
In 2005, McCoy was appointed to the Senate. She designated herself a member of the Progressive Conservative Party despite its dissolution two years prior; following the retirement of Lowell Murray in 2011, she was the last remaining member of the Senate to sit as a Progressive Conservative. In 2016, she joined the Independent Senators Group (ISG) and served as its initial interim facilitator. In 2019, she left the ISG and joined the Canadian Senators Group.
McCoy was previously the Alberta PC MLA for Calgary-West from 1986 to 1993. During this time, she served as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Minister responsible for Women's Issues and Minister of Labour under Premier Don Getty.
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Elaine Jean McCoy QC (March 7, 1946 – December 29, 2020) was a Canadian politician from Alberta. She was a member of the Senate of Canada. In 2005, McCoy...
non-affiliated senators, former Independent Progressive Conservative Senator ElaineMcCoy, former Conservative caucus members Jacques Demers, John D. Wallace,...
whole. Included among those decamping to the Canadian Senators Group was ElaineMcCoy, who previously served as the ISG's founding facilitator from 2016 to...
Senate as a "Progressive Conservative" along with Lowell Murray and ElaineMcCoy. He did not initially rule out joining the new Conservative Party caucus...
appointed two anti-merger Progressive Conservatives, Nancy Ruth and ElaineMcCoy, to the Senate. In March 2006, Nancy Ruth joined the new Conservative...
appointed by Brian Mulroney, 3 voluntarily resigned and two senators (ElaineMcCoy and Judith Keating) died while in office. The Prime-Minister appointment...
(consisting of certain Clark, Mulroney and Paul Martin appointees); ElaineMcCoy of Alberta was the last Progressive Conservative Senator, redesignating...
Independent Conservatives during the 41st Canadian Parliament ElaineMcCoy, Lowell Murray ElaineMcCoy "Federal budget passes House of Commons vote". CBC News...
and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. "MCCOY, The Hon. Elaine, Q.C., B.A., LL.B." PARLINFO. Archived from the original on April...
and visible supporters of the party both between and during elections. ElaineMcCoy and Nancy Ruth were later appointed to the Senate by Liberal Prime Minister...
until his retirement remained one of two senators (the other being ElaineMcCoy) to sit as "Progressive Conservatives" even though the federal Progressive...
Ralph Klein Ken Kowalski Julian Koziak Mary LeMessurier Doug Main ElaineMcCoy Shirley McClellan Marvin Moore John Oldring Rick Orman Connie Osterman Milt...
Silent Witness. She originated the role of Kay McCoy, proprietor of McCoy's bar in RTÉ's soap opera Fair City. McCabe won the inaugural IFTA in 2003 for Best...
Progressive Conservative Party. In 1973, Clark married law student Maureen McTeer. McTeer has developed her own career as a well-known author and lawyer and...
25, 2017 – January 1, 2022 Deputy Raymonde Saint-Germain Preceded by ElaineMcCoy (interim) Succeeded by Raymonde Saint-Germain Canadian Senator from British...
2008. Rocky View and the Calgary Region are also represented by Senator ElaineMcCoy was appointed to the Senate of Canada (the Upper House) by Prime Minister...
Treasurer Dick Johnston and Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister ElaineMcCoy, a photographer captured a shot of Getty playing golf while his press...
of directors of Telus and a senior strategic advisor to Canadian law firm McMillan LLP from 2011 to June 2020, when he resigned from both positions after...
finishing law school, Lougheed started working at the law firm of Fenerty, McGillivray and Robertson in Calgary. However, he had his sights set on Harvard...
after the resignation of Grant Mitchell. Elected to be the MLA for Edmonton-McClung, MacBeth tried to capitalize on discontent with Klein's government in...
rower. ElaineMcCoy, 74, Canadian politician, Senator (since 2005) and Alberta MLA (1986–1993). Phyllis McGuire, 89, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)...
original on February 27, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2013. Barrie 2004, p. 257. McCoy, Heath (December 14, 2010), Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling...