Carolyne Alexandra Morrison (February 18, 1905 – August 24, 1997) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
[1] Born Carolyne McBean in Ridgeville, Manitoba in 1905, to William McBean and Nellie Marshall,[1][2] Morrison was educated at Emerson, Manitoba, and fulfilled teacher training in Brandon.
In 1938, she married Hugh Morrison, who was serving his first term as the MLA for the constituency of Manitou, having been elected in 1936; they had no children.
[1] Morrison spent her legislative career as a PC backbencher; premiers Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir never appointed her to cabinet.
She was one of only two women in the Manitoba legislature during the 1960s (the other being her Progressive Conservative colleague Thelma Forbes, who served as a cabinet minister and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba),[3] and only the fifth woman ever elected to the legislature.