MONTREAL — Lise Bacon, a former senator and Quebec cabinet minister who was the first woman to hold the post of deputy premier, has died at the age of 91.

Her death on Wednesday was confirmed by national assembly.

Bacon was born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield in 1934 and became the second woman elected to the Quebec legislature in 1973, after Claire Kirkland-Casgrain.

Bacon had previously been the first woman president of a political party in Canada, the Quebec Liberal Party, from 1970 to 1973.

Once elected, Bacon, took on ministerial roles in then-premier Robert Bourassa’s cabinet, minister of state for social affairs and other positions until his government was defeated in the 1976 election.

Bacon was re-elected in 1981, 1985 and 1989, becoming the province’s first female deputy premie

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