Sarah Ramsland
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Sarah Katherine Ramsland, née McEwen (July 19, 1882-April 4, 1964) was a Canadian politician, the first woman ever elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
She was born in Minnesota, the daughter of a member of the Minnesota State Senate. Trained as a schoolteacher, she later married Max Ramsland and moved to Buchanan, Saskatchewan. Max Ramsland was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 1917 provincial election as the Liberal MLA for Pelly, but died in 1918 in the influenza epidemic, and Sarah Ramsland was elected to succeed him in the resulting byelection.
Ramsland was reelected in the 1921 election, and served until 1925. A backbench MLA, she was not prominent in the government until her final day in the legislature, when she introduced a resolution calling for an amendment to federal divorce laws that would permit women to apply for divorce on the grounds of a spouse's adultery, a privilege which was then only available to men.
She was defeated in the 1925 provincial election by Progressive candidate Charles Tran. She subsequently worked for the provincial library and for a number of women's organizations.
