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- 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 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 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 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://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
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