Caroline Andrew

Caroline Parkin Andrew (1942 – November 23, 2022) was a Canadian political scientist and activist. A researcher of urban politics and women and politics and a professor at the University of Ottawa, she served as president of the Canadian Political Science Association (1983–1984), the first woman to do so, and was the moderator of the leaders' debate on women's issues during the 1984 Canadian federal election campaign. She also participated in activism for Franco-Ontarian interests and was awarded several awards for doing so, including investiture into the Order of Canada. Biography Early life Caroline Parkin Andrew was born in 1942. Her father Geoffrey Andrew worked at the University of British Columbia as Professor of English and eventually as Dean. Her mother Margaret Grant was the daughter of historian William Lawson Grant, through which Andrew's great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were academic George Monro Grant and banker William Lawson, respectively. She was the niece of philosopher George Grant and the first cousin of Liberal Party of Canada leader Michael Ignatieff. She generally wrote about urban diversity in English and the effects of economic restructuring on housing in French. Her 1984 presidential address, "Women and the Welfare State", received retrospective praise as a "landmark article". Activism In the 1960s, Andrew spent some time working for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. She was also awarded a 2012 Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, with her nomination supported by such organizations as Crime Prevention Ottawa and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, who praised her for "strengthen[ing] ties between Anglophone and Francophone women at a time when relationships in many groups were strained in the aftermath of Meech Lake."

Andrew died on November 23, 2022, in Hamilton, Ontario, aged 80. During her last few years, she had been treated for dementia.