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Lois Wilson
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Lois Wilson is a groundbreaker for women and for all Canadians, opening important doors so others could follow her lead and, like her, work to change the world. Dr. Wilson was the first woman to be President of the Canadian Council of Churches (1976-1979) as well as the first woman to be Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1980-1982). She is ... the first Canadian to be the President of the World Council of Churches (1983-1990) and the first woman to be Chancellor of Lakehead University (1991-2000).
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Lois Wilson is an ordained minister and author of six books as well as a Canadian Independent Senator. She serves as a moderator of the United Church of Canada, and as President of both the Canadian and World Council of Churches. She is a former President of WFM – Canada. Married to the Rev. Dr. Roy F Wilson, she has four children and twelve grandchildren. She lives in Ottawa.
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Lois Wilson stars in this drama, which was based on the novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland. Schoolteacher Carmel Lee (Wilson) inherits a run-down country newspaper from her uncle. With the help of eccentric Professor Pell (Raymond McKee) and Jed Tubal, an old printer (Luke Cosgrave), she starts bringing it back to life. When she decides to rid the town of a gang of bootleggers, she runs into trouble. The reformers are on her side but the bad guys are determined to stop them. Sheriff Churchill (Charles Ogle) has disappeared and she suspects foul play.
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Lois Wilson has led a tireless life of political and community activism as well as being a member of the Canadian Senate from 1998-2002. Appointed Canada's Special Envoy to the Sudan from 1999-2002, she was ... an honorary member for the Canadian Committee for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations and the first Canadian president of the World Council of Churches (1983-1991). In 2000, she led a delegation to the Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) to prepare for the establishment of diplomatic relations with Canada. She will receive her honorary doctorate of laws on Friday, June 17, at 2:30 p.m.
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Lois Wilson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 28th, 1894 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She trained to be a school teacher of young children but wasn't teaching for long when she decided to pursue her first love of performing instead. She auditioned and was hired for some film roles by the Victor Film Company starting in 1915 and gained valuable experience quickly. She visited Chicago where she met pioneer female film director Lois Weber, who gave her a small part in her film "The Dumb Girl of Portici" in 1916. She displayed such talent that Miss Weber took her to Los Angeles, where she was groomed for stardom and began playing leads opposite the likes of J. Warren Kerrigan and Frank Keenan. She entered into a contract with Famous Players - Paramount in 1919 and played leading roles opposite stars such as Wallace Reid and Bryant Washburn.
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Lois Wilson, pretty by normal human standards, seemed to be relegated in Hollywood to the most unglamorous of heroines, but her acting skills brought them to life. Her best surviving film is Miss Lulu Bett (1921) as the spinster sister virtually enslaved by her family, who dares to break free for a life of her own. She ... garnered great notices for the now lost Only 38 (1923), where she played a still young widow expected to spend the rest of her life in dutiful mourning. She plays the appealing but conventional heroine in The Covered Wagon (1923), her most popular film, and as a glamorous change of pace, landed the role of Daisy in the now lost The Great Gatsby (1926). Wilson moved into character parts in the talkies, appearing in films into the late 40s. She was also a regular in the TV soap The Guiding Light.
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