Mary Collins

Mary Collins, PC (born September 26, 1940) is a former Canadian politician.

She was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 federal election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Capilano, British Columbia.

She retained her seat in the 1988 federal election for the redistributed riding of Capilano—Howe Sound. She was appointed to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as Associate Minister of National Defence from 1989 to 1993. She also served as Minister responsible for the Status of Women from 1990 to 1993.

In January 1993, she became Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State for the environment as well as Status of Women

When Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as PC leader and prime minister in June 1993, she promoted Collins to the positions of Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of Amateur Sport.

Her career ended that fall with the defeat of the Campbell government and the loss of her own parliamentary seat in the 1993 federal election.

Mary Collins (disambiguation)

Mary Collins (born 1940) is a former Canadian politician.

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Mary Collins (missionary)

Mary Collins (April 18, 1846 - May 25, 1920) was a missionary, writer, and proponent for Native American rights in the Dakota Territory of the United States of America. She was a prolific member of the American Missionary Association, having spent thirty-five years of her life living amongst the Sioux tribe acting as a teacher, translator, and diplomat between the Sioux and white settlers. She was a noted friend and correspondent of Sitting Bull, one of the most famous Native Americans in United States history. Despite her actions and lifelong commitment to peaceful relations with the Sioux, Collins is a relatively unknown character in American History.

Early life

Collins was born in 1846 to Ephraim and Margaret Collins, in the town of Upper Alton, Illinois. Her father was a Northerner, and her mother a Southerner. Both her parents were children of American Revolutionary War veterans. Collins credited her ancestry, along with the physical training of her brothers, with providing her with the "pioneer spirit" that came to define her life. She rode horses, boated, climbed trees, and lifted weights alongside her brothers.

Mary Collins (immunologist)

Mary Collins is a British Professor of Immunology. She is Dean of Research at the Okinawa Institute in Japan. Formerly, Collins taught in the Division of Infection and Immunity at University College London, and was the head of the Division of Advanced Therapies at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, and the Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Molecular Virology. Her research group studies the use of viruses as vectors for introducing new genes into cells, which can be useful for experimental cell biology, for clinical applications such as gene therapy, and as cancer vaccines.

Academic career

Collins was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, where she studied biochemistry. She did her PhD work under the supervision of Enrique Rozengurt at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund followed by a postdoctoral fellowship with Avrion Mitchison at University College London and with Richard C. Mulligan at the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.