Daurene Lewis

Daurene Lewis: After earning the top political job in Annapolis Royal, defeating her white male opponent 246-78, she told this: I just want to be a good mayor, not a good lady mayor or a good black lady mayor, according to The Chronicle Herald. She said there were only 13 African-Nova Scotians in the community at the time of her trail-blazing win and In 1984, following her victory when she was elected Canadas first black female mayor, the late Daurene Lewis downplayed her feat. Lewis, who died in January at age 69, later told The Canadian Press she was indeed this countrys inaugural black female mayor but I kept insisting I had not been put in as the black representative. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.