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"Was born 1943 in East..."
  • Was born 1943 in East Preston.
  •  Was a Canadian provincial Politician.
  • Spent 20 years as an administrator at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto Ontario.
  • In 1996 ran unsuccessfully for the leader ship of the Nova Scotia for the New Democratic party.
  • She lost her seat in the 1999 provincial election.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Atwell
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"She is currently the director..."


  • She is currently the director of the African-Canadian employment clinic in Halifax.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Atwell
  • She has engaged for over forty years
  • in Community Development.
  •  She is currently the Executive Director of the Community Justice Society.
  • http://etc.lib.unb.ca/womenactivists/yvonne-atwell










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"She is also currently the..."
  • She is also currently the vice president of the Nova Scotia new democratic party.
  •  Works in multiple partnerships to administrate Restorative Justice programming to youth at risk or in conflict with the law ages 12-17.
  •  Thanks to her mothers insistence her
  • that the children in the family were
  • treated equally Yvonne returned to Nova
  • Scotia.



  •  http://etc.lib.unb.ca/womenactivists/yvonne-atwell
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"She was named Honorary Member..."
  • She was named Honorary Member of the Canadian Society of the Immigration Consultants in 2007.
  •  She has children and grandchildren.
  • Her motto is, there is really nothing you can’t do if you put your mind to it.
  • Her father and her mother lived in different provinces
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Atwell"
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Atwell
  • http://etc.lib.unb.ca/womenactivists/yvonne-atwell
  •  http://etc.lib.unb.ca/womenactivists/yvonne-atwell/last-words
  •  http://etc.lib.unb.ca/womenactivists/yvonne-atwell/practicing-social-activism