Marisa Ferretti Barth

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Marisa Ferretti Barth (born in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, April 28, 1931) was a Canadian Senator.[1]

Ferreti Barth was a social worker, human resources consultant and community organizer before her appointment to the Senate. She established 68 seniors' clubs for Italian-Canadians as well as helping found a seniors' club for Chinese Canadians in Montreal as well as seniors organizations for other ethnic grouops. She founded the Regional Council of Italian-Canadian Seniors serving as its executive director since 1975 and also was a board member of the National Congress of Italian Canadians in the 1980s.[2]

She was appointed to the Senate on September 22, 1997 on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and represented the province of Quebec. She sat as a Liberal, until her mandatory retirement at the age of 75 on April 28, 2006.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Parliament of Canada, Federal Political Experience - FERRETTI BARTH, Marisa. Retrieved March 3, 2007.
  2. ^ Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal.ca :: Senators :: Marisa Ferretti Barth. Retrieved March 3, 2007.
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