Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
Preface |
Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1979-2-17
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Reference number: MC2806-56
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Scope and Content
The state of New Brunswick hospitals is depicted by Health Minister Brenda Robertson and a doctor standing outside an operating room as water leaks from the ceiling into a bed pan.
Title
Brenda's Leak
Caption
"… and this must be where you scrub up!!"
Persons
Brenda Robertson
- Born in Sussex, New Brunswick, May 23, 1929
- Progressive Conservative
- First woman elected to the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
- First woman to become a New Brunswick Cabinet Minister
- First elected to provincial government to represent Albert riding, 1967
- Youth Minister, 1970 to 1974
- Minister of Social Welfare, 1971 to 1972
- Minister of Social Services, 1972 to 1974
- Minister of Health, 1976 and 1978 to 1982
- Minister for Social Program Reform, 1982 to 1984
- Appointed to Senate, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on House Privileges and Regulations, 1984
- Retired, 2004