Joyce Hayden

Joyce Sandra Hayden (September 20, 1931 – March 7, 2009) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse South Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 1992. She was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party.

Background Hayden was born in Glaslyn, Saskatchewan and raised in Birch Lake, Saskatchewan. She married Earle Hayden in 1949, and the couple moved to the Yukon in 1953.

As founding president of the Yukon Status of Women Council, she spearheaded a campaign to institute a public transit system in Whitehorse, securing an $80,000 grant from Transport Canada to set up a community system, the Yukon Women's Minibus Society. She was also active in the Girl Guides of Canada and the YWCA.

She had been legally blind since 1983. In 2003, she was a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Person's Case.

She died in 2009.