Rosemary Godin

Rosemary Godin

MLA for Sackville-Beaver Bank
In office 1998–1999
Preceded by	Bill MacDonald
Succeeded by	Barry Barnet

Personal details
Born	Barrie, Ontario
Political party	NDP
Occupation	She was a newspaper journalist before being elected and is now a United Church minister

Rosemary Godin is a former Canadian politician and current writer and Christian minister. She was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 1998 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Sackville-Beaver Bank as a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party (NDP). She served for one term before she was defeated in the 1999 election.

Following her defeat, she became disillusioned with the NDP and left the party. In the 2003 provincial election, she ran as a Liberal in the riding of Dartmouth North and lost to incumbent NDP Jerry Pye.

Godin is a graduate of Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario with a degree in Communication Arts and a graduate of McMaster University in Hamilton with a BA in English. A long-time advocate for single parents and the poor, she entered the Atlantic School of Theology in 2004 to study theology; she received an M.Div and was ordained by the United Church of Canada in 2009.

Godin continues to write for newspapers and magazines and is a full-time ordained minister with the United Church of Canada in Sydney, Nova Scotia.