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Preceded by
  
Ralph Johnstone

Spouse(s)
  
Erroll Bagnall

Succeeded by
  
Melbourne Gass


Preceded by
  
James Lee

Succeeded by
  
Catherine Callbeck

Name
  
Leone Bagnall

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Full Name
  
Flora Minnie Leone Bagnall

Born
  
July 20, 1933 (age 90) Springfield, Prince Edward Island (
1933-07-20
)

Relations
  
Donald Newton MacKay, grandfather

Political party
  
Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island

Flora Minnie Leone Bagnall, CM OPEI (July 20, 1933 – April 30, 2017) was a farmer, teacher and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.

She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 1979 provincial election, representing the 1st Queens district. She was re-elected in 1982, 1986 and 1989. She was appointed Minister of Education from October 28, 1982 to May 2, 1986. Following the party's defeat in the 1986 provincial election, she briefly served as the interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island from 1987 to 1988.

In 1994 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Order of Prince Edward Island in 2005. She also received the Queens Diamond Jubliee medal in 2002.

Bagnall died in Charlottetown on April 30, 2017, at age 83.

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