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by Jae Jones - September 20, 2023 1 5

Rosemary Brown holds the distinction of being Canada's first black female member of a provincial legislature and the first woman to run for leadership of a federal political party. Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1930, and moved to Canada in 1951 to study social work at McGill University in Montreal. She proceeded to earn a Master of ...

by Jae Jones - August 13, 2023 0 9

Calvin Woodrow Ruck CM was an anti-racism activist and a member of the Canadian Senate. He also was a as a human rights activist, social worker, and author. Ruck was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, to parents who had immigrated from Barbados. He left school after completing the 10th grade to take a job as a laborer with Dominion Steel and Coal ...

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