Peggy Butts

Mary Alice ( Peggy ) Butts ( born August 15, 1924 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia; † 6 March 2004) was a Roman Catholic nun, a professor of political theory and Canadian Senator.

Butts belonged to the Congregation of the School Sisters of Our Lady of Namur. She earned a BA in Philosophy, a BA in Education and a Master of Arts degree in political philosophy at the University of Ottawa and a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Toronto with a thesis on The political doctrines of Augustine of Hippo and Marsilius of Padua. They only worked as a director of a high school, before submission to the University College of Cape Breton (now Cape Breton University) was professor at St. Francis Xavier University and.

In 1993 they recruited Canada's Governor-General for a seat in the Canadian Senate. Your nomination made ​​but for the country widely publicized problems: After the Constitutional Act of 1867, each Senator land and property with a value of at least $ 4,000 must possess. Butts, who had sworn a poverty silk possessed neither. You could take the seat until 23 September 1997 when their order had formally overwritten her a piece of land. In the Senate, she sat until 15 August 1999 when the age limit of 75 years forced her to resign.

In 1995 she received the Weiler Award for her contributions to the community and social development of Canada, in 1996 an honorary doctorate from St. Francis Xavier University.