About Joan Dougherty
Lived 1927 – 2020 (aged 93). Joan Dougherty was a Canadian politician.
Joan Dougherty (2 March 1927 – 18 December 2020) was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.
Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Edward Mason, a physician, and Loretta O'Reilly, Dougherty studied at The Study, a private girls' school, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Masters in histology in 1950 from McGill University. She did post-graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in biophysics.
Dougherty represented Jacques-Cartier in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 to 1989.
She died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec.
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Canadian politician (1927-2020)
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Joan Dougherty was born on 2 March 1927 in Montreal.
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Joan Dougherty died on 18 December 2020 in Westmount.
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Joan Dougherty was a politician.
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