Leone Bagnall

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| name = Leone Bagnall

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| office = MLA (Councillor) for 1st Queens

| predecessor = Ralph Johnstone

| successor = Catherine Callbeck

| term_start = April 23, 1979

| term_end = March 29, 1993

| office1 = Interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island

| term_start1 = November 13, 1987

| term_end1 = June 11, 1988

| predecessor1 = James Lee

| successor1 = Melbourne Gass

| birth_name = Flora Minnie Leone Bagnall

| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|07|20}}

| birth_place = Springfield, Prince Edward Island

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|04|30|1933|07|20}}

| death_place = Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

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| spouse = Erroll Bagnall

| party = Progressive Conservative

| relations = Donald Newton MacKay, grandfather

| children = Five

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Flora Minnie Leone Bagnall, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|OPEI}} (July 20, 1933 – April 30, 2017) was a farmer, teacher and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/leg_mthbiosB.pdf|title=BAGNALL, CM., FLORA MINNIE LEONE}}

She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 1979 provincial election, representing the 1st Queens district. She was re-elected in 1982, 1986 and 1989. She was appointed Minister of Education from October 28, 1982 to May 2, 1986. Following the party's defeat in the 1986 provincial election, she briefly served as the interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island from 1987 to 1988.

In 1994 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Order of Prince Edward Island in 2005. She also received the Queens Diamond Jubilee medal in 2002.

Bagnall died in Charlottetown on April 30, 2017, at age 83.[http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/2017/5/2/p-e-i--s-leone-bagnall-remembered-as-political-pioneer--communit.html "P.E.I.'s Leone Bagnall remembered as political pioneer, community person"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502210339/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/2017/5/2/p-e-i--s-leone-bagnall-remembered-as-political-pioneer--communit.html |date=2017-05-02 }}. The Guardian, May 2, 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-610803-leone-bagnall.html|title = Leone Bagnall: Obituary and death notice on InMemoriam}}