she was the recipient of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Person's Case. In the fall of 1996, she received the Order of Ontario, the highest honour awarded by the province. Fairclough was active in the Consumers Association of Canada, the Girl Guides, the I.O.D.E., the Y.W.C.A., the United Empire Loyalist Association, and the Zonta Club of Hamilton and Zonta International, before, during and after her stay in office. In 1982, the Ontario government office tower on the corner of MacNab and King Streets in Hamilton was officially named the Ellen Fairclough Building. In recognition of her status as a pioneering woman in Canadian politics, she was granted the rare honour of having the title Right Honourable bestowed upon her in 1992 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, one of very few Canadians to have the title who had not been Prime Minister, Governor General or Chief Justice. At the Progressive Conservative leadership election, 1993, Fairclough was a supporter of Kim Campbell, and gave the speech to formally nominate Campbell on the convention floor. In 1995, she published her memoirs, Saturday's Child: Memoirs of Canada's First Female Cabinet Minister. She died at St. Joseph's Villa, a nursing home in Dundas, Ontario, on November 13, 2004. Her husband Gordon and son Howard both predeceased her. On June 21, 2005, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in honour of Fairclough. Archives The Ellen Louks Fairclough fonds is at Library and Archives Canada. References External links 1905 births 2004 deaths Companions of the Order of Canada Hamilton, Ontario city councillors Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Members of the Order of Ontario Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Postmasters General of Canada Women members of the House of Commons of Canada Canadian memoirists Women in Ontario politics Canadian women memoirists Writers from Hamilton, Ontario Women municipal councillors in Canada Women government ministers of Canada 20th-century Canadian politicians 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 20th-century Canadian women writers 20th-century memoirists 20th-century Canadian women politicians Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case winners