| Rose Marie MacDonald | |
| Birth Date: | July 3, 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Woodville Mills, Prince Edward Island |
| Birth Name: | Rose Marie MacLean |
| Residence: | Little Pond, Prince Edward Island |
| Office: | Assemblyman for 5th Kings |
| Term Start: | 1988 |
| Term End: | 1996 |
| Successor: | riding dissolved |
| Spouse: | Ronald MacDonald |
Rose Marie MacDonald, née MacLean (July 3, 1941 – September 3, 2012) was a Canadian politician, who represented 5th Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1988 to 1996.[1] She was a member of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party.
Born in Woodville Mills, Prince Edward Island,[2] she worked as a cook, as an office clerk and as an employee of the Bank of Montreal prior to her career in politics.
She was first elected to the legislature in a by-election in 1988, and was reelected in the general elections of 1989 and 1993.[2] As a member of the assembly, she chaired the committee on education, community and cultural affairs, the committee on natural resources and the environment and a special committee on legislative reform,[3] and served as the Liberal caucus whip. On April 20, 1995, she was speaking in the legislature when a pipe bomb exploded outside the building, sending glass flying into the chamber.[4]
At the 1996 regional conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, MacDonald was a panelist, alongside Lloyd Snow of Newfoundland and Maynard Sonntag of Saskatchewan, at a seminar on the social and legal implications of government-sponsored gambling initiatives.[5]
In the 1996 election, she was defeated by Michael Currie of the Progressive Conservatives in the new district of Georgetown-Baldwin's Road.
She later served on the board of directors of the Souris Hospital, the Island Community Theatre and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.