Rose Marie MacDonald | |
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Assemblyman for 5th Kings | |
In office 1988–1996 |
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Preceded by | Arthur MacDonald |
Succeeded by | riding dissolved |
Personal details | |
Born |
Rose Marie MacLean July 3, 1941 Woodville Mills, Prince Edward Island |
Died | September 3, 2012 |
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse(s) | Ronald MacDonald |
Residence | Little Pond, Prince Edward Island |
Rose Marie MacDonald, née MacLean (July 3, 1941 – September 3, 2012) was a Canadian politician, who represented 5th Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1988 to 1996. She was a member of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party.
Born in Woodville Mills, Prince Edward Island, she worked as a cook, as an office clerk and as an employee of the Bank of Montreal prior to her career in politics.
She was first elected to the legislature in a by-election in 1988, and was reelected in the general elections of 1989 and 1993. 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 whip. On April 20, 1995, she was speaking in the legislature when a pipe bomb exploded outside the building, sending glass flying into the chamber.
At the 1996 regional conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, MacDonald was a panelist, alongside Lloyd Snow of Newfoundland and Maynard Sonntag of Saskatchewan, at a seminar on the social and legal implications of government-sponsored gambling initiatives.
In the 1996 election, she was defeated by Michael Currie of the Progressive Conservatives in the new district of Georgetown-Baldwin's Road.