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Yvonne Atwell (born 1943 in Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian provincial politician. She spent 20 years as an administrator at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario , and returned to Nova Scotia in 1984 . She has been the president of the Black United Front and the African Canadian Caucus , a chair of the Indigenous Black and Mi'kmaq Program at Dalhousie University , a member of the Metropolitan Board Of Trade 's small business committee, and a member of the George Washington Carver Credit Union executive board. In 1996 she ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party . She won a seat in the Nova Scotia House Of Assembly in 1998 for the riding of Preston , becoming the first black woman MLA in the province. She lost her seat in the 1999 Provincial Election . She is currently the director of the African-Canadian Employment Clinic in Halifax . She is also currently the Vice President of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party . |
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