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Mary Robinson (Canadian politician)

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ124420121 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mary Robinson (born August 3, 1970) is a Canadian parliamentarian who has served as a senator from Prince Edward Island since January 2024. Robinson has experience in the agriculture sector.

Robinson is vice-president of the World Farmers' Organisation and managing partner of the Robinsion Group of Companies, a sixth-generation farm and agribusiness based in Albany, Prince Edward Island. In 2019, she became the first Prince Edward Islander and the first woman to be elected president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.

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“Mary Robinson (Canadian politician)” enters the record as canadian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mary, Robinson and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2024, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-08-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mary, Robinson and Canadian.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124420121. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970, 2024 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mary Robinson (Canadian politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.