{{Short description|Canadian politician (1914–2016)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | name = Hazel Newhook | caption = | office1 = MHA for Gander | term_start1 = 1979 | term_end1 = 1985 | predecessor1 = Harold Collins | successor1 = Winston Baker | office2 = Mayor of Gander | term_start2 = May 16, 1973 | term_end2 = November 9, 1977 | predecessor2 = Royal Cooper | successor2 = Lloyd Mercer | party = Progressive Conservative | birth_date = {{birth date|1914|12|24}} | birth_place = Grand Falls, Dominion of Newfoundland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|6|26|1914|12|24}} | death_place = Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada | occupation = }}
'''Hazel Rose Newhook''' {{postnominals|ONL}} (December 24, 1914 – June 26, 2016) was a Canadian politician, who sat in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1979 to 1985 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stillcounting.athabascau.ca/appendix2.php |title=Appendix II: Women Legislators and Senators, 1970-1985 |accessdate=September 17, 2007 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164924/http://stillcounting.athabascau.ca/appendix2.php |archivedate=July 6, 2011 }}</ref> where she represented the electoral district of Gander. She also served as mayor of Gander from 1973 to 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gandercanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123&Itemid=3 |title=Past Councils |website=Gandercanada.com |date= |accessdate=2016-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Andrew Robinson |url=http://www.ganderbeacon.ca/News/2009-12-10/article-1491666/Gander-resident-to-receive-Order-of-NL/1 |title=Gander resident to receive Order of NL - News - The Gander Beacon |website=Ganderbeacon.ca |date= |accessdate=2016-06-28}}</ref>
Newhook and her caucus colleague Lynn Verge were appointed to the Executive Council of Newfoundland by Premier Brian Peckford in 1979, becoming the first two women ever to serve in the provincial cabinet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news2/canada/nlvotes2011/ridings/016/ |accessdate=April 10, 2017|title=Newfoundland and Labrador Votes, Electoral Districts - Gander }}</ref> She was awarded the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exec.gov.nl.ca/onl/recipients/2009/2009bio.html |title=2009 Recipients - Biographies - 2009 Order of Newfoundland and Labrador |website=Exec.gov.nl.ca |date= |accessdate=2016-06-28}}</ref> She turned 100 in December 2014<ref>{{cite news|last = Anstey|first = Brandon|title = Local leader just turned 100|newspaper = The Gander Beacon|date = 2015-02-25|url = http://www.ganderbeacon.ca/News/Local/2015-02-25/article-4056802/Local-leader-just-turned-100/1|accessdate = 2015-04-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2009/exec/1211n02.htm |title=Order of Newfoundland and Labrador Recipients Invested at Government House |website=Releases.gov.nl.ca |date=2010-01-31 |accessdate=2016-06-28}}</ref> and died on June 26, 2016, at the age of 101.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/hazel-roze-newhook-obituary-1.3655680 |title=Hazel Newhook, trailblazing businesswoman and politician, dead at 101|publisher=CBC News |date=June 28, 2016 |accessdate=2016-06-28}}</ref>
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