Eva Elizabeth Rodgerson (born June 21, 1945) is a

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politician, who was a member of the

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from 2000 to 2007. She represented the electoral district of

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and was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. She was born Eva Elizabeth MacMillan in

O'Leary, Prince Edward Island O'Leary is a town located in Prince County, Prince Edward Island. Its population in the 2016 Census was 815 people. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: St ...

, the daughter of Hamel MacMillan and Helen Gay, and was educated at

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. She married Gordon Rodgerson in 1963. Rodgerson was a community development officer and was involved in the construction of the "Big Potato" in O'Leary. In 2008, she was awarded the

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for over thirty-five years of service to the community of O'Leary.

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