WATCH: A very special Montrealer is celebrating a milestone birthday in style. From humble beginnings, Ivyline Fleming made her way to Montreal in the 1950s. She was a trailblazer and inspiration for women of colour and the community at large for more than five decades. Global's Phil Carpenter was on site for the celebration.It’s reasonable to expect that after a person has lived for a hundred years that they’d likely be too frail to do a number of things.
Other friends point out that it was that drive which pushed her to create yet another organization, the Jamaican Canadian Community Women’s League, to advocate for the rights of women.Canada’s democracy ‘under attack,’ ex-China envoy warns after NSICOP report The group was meant as a community resource for all women, regardless of their background, Fleming stressed.