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Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica , and moved to Canada in 1951 to study at McGill University . She served as an Member Of The Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the British Columbia legislature from 1972 to 1986, making her the first African-Canadian woman to be elected to a Canadian provincial legislature. In 1975, she became the first black woman to run for the leadership of a Canadian federal party (and only the second woman, after Mary Walker-Sawka ), finishing second to Ed Broadbent in that year's New Democratic Party Leadership Convention . Because of her hard work and dedication, she was sworn to the Queen's Privy Council For Canada . After departing politics, she became a Professor of women's studies at Simon Fraser University , and in 1996 was named an Officer of the Order Of Canada . She served as a member of the Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee from 1993 to 1998 . This board is the overseer for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or CSIS. She died of an apparent heart attack on April 26 , 2003 in Vancouver, British Columbia . See also REFERENCES
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