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Rosalind
MacPhee - Lion's Bay
Her journey through diagnosis, treatment and recovery is chronicled in her book, "Picasso's Women: A Breast Cancer Story". In this book Mrs. MacPhee shared her personal crisis and brought discussion of breast cancer into the public domain. It is a work of literature that describes the medical and emotional progress of a disease that afflicts many Canadian women. In 1995. Rosalind MacPhee was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for non-fiction and was honoured by the people of Lions Bay, her home of 23 years, with the Citizen of Distinction Award. While Rosalind
MacPhee has lost her personal battle against breast cancer, her
courageous words continue to speak from the pages of Picasso's Women,
providing strength and guidance to countless women on this continent
and abroad.
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Rosalind
MacPhee, a paramedic, author, poet, humanitarian and community leader,
was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991 and died earlier this year,
just a few days after finding out she had been selected to receive
the Order of British Columbia.