Background
She was born Maria Margharita Smith in Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 1919, the daughter of Vincent Smith, a Saskatchewan judge and former Modern Language Association for Yorkton.
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Sally Merchant
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She was the only Liberal Modern Language Association elected to represent Saskatoon in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1964 to 1967. She did seek re-election in 1967. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Saskatchewan.
She joined CFQC-television (later CTV) in Saskatoon in 1955 and went on to host a television interview show known as Sally Time.
In 1967, she was named to the Canadian delegation to the United Nations. She served in the federal Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs from 1969 to 1983 and with the CRTC from 1983 to 1988.
Mistress Merchant lectured at the University of Alberta, the University of Manitoba and the University of Saskatchewan.
She died in Saskatoon in April, 2007. Her granddaughter is television personality Amanda Language.
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