Flora macdonald politician biography of mahatma
Flora macdonald politician biography of mahatma
MERRILL, FLORA MacDONALD (Denison) - Dictionary of Canadian ......
Flora!
A Woman in a Man's World
The exceptional story of the politician Flora Isabel MacDonald, who inspired Canadian women by breaking down gender barriers in a world of men.
Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora.
In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time.
Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs.
Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan. Flora was driven by a lifelong conviction that there is nothing a woman cannot achieve in a world controlled by men, and she pursued this convi