the provincial party in 1981 when she became leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party, and leader of the federal party in 1995. Shaw himself ran for the CCF in the 1945 and 1949 federal elections and in a federal byelection in 1948, and for the NDP in the 1974 federal election, but was never elected to the House of Commons of Canada. Electoral results References 1914 births 1993 deaths Businesspeople from Ottawa Businesspeople from Nova Scotia Canadian socialists New Democratic Party candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Members of the Order of Canada Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Columbia University alumni Royal Canadian Air Force personnel Canadian military personnel of World War II Carleton University faculty People from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia