Marisa Ferretti Barth

Marisa Ferretti Barth OQ (April 28, 1931 – March 28, 2021[1]) was a Canadian Senator.[2]

The Honourable
Marisa Ferretti Barth
Senator for Repentigny, Quebec
In office
September 23, 1997 – April 28, 2006
Appointed byJean Chrétien
Preceded byPietro Rizzuto
Succeeded byPatrick Brazeau
Personal details
Born(1931-04-28)April 28, 1931
Ascoli Piceno, Italy
DiedMarch 28, 2021(2021-03-28) (aged 89)
Political partyLiberal

Life and career

Born in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, Marisa Ferretti Barth was a social worker, human resources consultant and community organizer before her appointment to the Senate. She established 84 seniors' clubs for Italian-Canadians as well as helping found a seniors' club for Chinese Canadians in Montreal as well as seniors organizations for other ethnic groups. She founded the Regional Council of Italian-Canadian Seniors serving as its executive director since 1975 and also was a board member of the National Congress of Italian Canadians in the 1980s.[3]

She was appointed to the Senate on September 22, 1997 on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and represented the province of Quebec. She sat as a Liberal, until her mandatory retirement at the age of 75 on April 28, 2006.[2]

Honours

In 2008, she was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.[4] In 2003, she was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[5]

References
  1. Addio a Marisa Ferretti Barth Senatrice canadese di Ascoli (in Italian)
  2. Marisa Ferretti Barth – Parliament of Canada biography
  3. Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal.ca :: Senators :: Marisa Ferretti Barth Archived 2007-02-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 3, 2007.
  4. "National Order of Quebec citation" (in French).
  5. "Hansard".
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