Rosemary Brown (
June 17,
1930 -
April 26,
2003),
Canadian politician, was born in
Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to Canada in 1951 to study at
McGill University. She served as an MLA in the
British Columbia legislature from 1972 to 1986, making her the first black woman to be elected to a Canadian provincial legislature. In 1975, she ran for the leadership of the federal
NDP party, but was defeated by
Ed Broadbent on the final ballot. After leaving politics, she became a professor of women's studies at
Simon Fraser University.
Rosemary Brown was also a spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.
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