Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sandra Lovelace Nicholas

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1948

Place of Birth: New Brunswick, Canada

Profession: politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Mary Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, CM (born April 15, 1948) is a Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet Canadian senator representing New Brunswick.
Sitting with the Progressive Senate Group, she is the first Aboriginal woman appointed to the Senate.
As an activist on behalf of First Nations women and children, she received international recognition in 1979 for bringing her case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
In 1985 she succeeded in having Parliament revoke a discriminatory section of the Indian Act, which had caused women marrying non-Aboriginals to lose status and also deprived their children of status but did not treat men the same who married non-Aboriginal women.