Gwendolyn Black

Gwendolyn McDonald Black (August 1, 1911 – February 28, 2005) was a Canadian musician, educator and community activist. She was the first woman from New Brunswick to become an Officer in the Order of Canada.

She frequently played for the Sackville branch of the Canadian Association for the Mentally Challenged. From 1970 to 1973, she was national president of the Canadian Federation of University Women. She served on the boards of the VON, the Children's Aid Society, the Sackville Memorial Hospital and the New Brunswick Commission on Federal Constituencies. She was named to the Order of Canada in 1974. In 2003, she received the Charles Frederick Allison Award for her contributions to Mount Allison University.

She died in Sackville at the age of 93.