Rose Marie MacDonald, née MacLean (July 3, 1941 – September 3, 2012) was a Canadian politician, who represented

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in the

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from 1988 to 1996. She was a member of the

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. Born in Woodville Mills, Prince Edward Island,Rose Marie MacDonald
at Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online. she worked as a cook, as an office clerk and as an employee of the

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prior to her career in politics. She was first elected to the legislature in a

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in 1988, and was reelected in the general elections of

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and

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. As a member of the assembly, she chaired the committee on education, community and cultural affairs, the committee on natural resources and the environment and a special committee on legislative reform, and served as the Liberal caucus

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. On April 20, 1995, she was speaking in the legislature when a

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exploded outside the building, sending glass flying into the chamber. At the 1996 regional conference of the

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, MacDonald was a panelist, alongside Lloyd Snow of Newfoundland and

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of Saskatchewan, at a seminar on the social and legal implications of government-sponsored

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initiatives."Thirty-Fifth Regional Conference, Winnipeg"
''

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'', Vol. 19, No. 3 (1996). In the 1996 election, she was defeated by Michael Currie of the Progressive Conservatives in the new district of

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. She later served on the board of directors of the Souris Hospital, the Island Community Theatre and the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, Rose Marie 1941 births 2012 deaths Women MLAs in Prince Edward Island People from Kings County, Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island Liberal Party MLAs