Olive Crane

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Olive Crane
Olive Crane

In office
2006 – 2007
Preceded by Kevin MacAdam
Succeeded by riding dissolved

Incumbent
Assumed office 
2007
Preceded by new district

Occupation Leader of the Official Opposition Office

Olive Crane B.S.W. is a Canadian politician and social worker from Douglas Station, Prince Edward Island.

She is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, representing District 7 Morell-Mermaid. On September 4, 2007 she was appointed the interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island, the official opposition[1].

A native of Morell, Prince Edward Island, Crane is a graduate of Dalhousie University.

She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island on March 20, 2006 in the by-election for District #2, Morell-Fortune Bay, and re-elected to the Legislature on May 28, 2007 representing District # 7, Morell-Mermaid. Following the 2007 election, she was appointed the Opposition Critic for Health, Education, the Status of Women, and Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour.

She is a career civil servant, working as a social worker for the provincial government since 1979. She has worked in a variety of departments from Health & Social Services, Office of the Attorney General to Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture.


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Political offices
Preceded by
Pat Binns
Leader of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party
2007- present (interim)
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Pat Binns
Leader of the Opposition
2007 – present
Incumbent