Rose Fortune

Inducted 2024

Rose demonstrated an outstanding and unparalleled level of success. She commanded respect and kept the peace, her perseverance and her care for the community are the very qualities that saw her named a National Historic Person in 2018. An enterprising individual, she started a successful porter business at Annapolis Royal wharves as well as a wakeup call service business in which she would alert travellers to departures at the wharves. Rose was a prominent businesswoman and valued member of the community a full century before civil rights and feminist movements.