Rella Braithwaite
Rella Aylestock Braithwaite was a Canadian author.
She was born in Lebanon, a descendant of Black pioneers who settled in the Queen's Bush area, and was educated in Listowel, Ontario. In 1946, Braithwaite and her husband Bob settled in Scarborough, Ontario; she served on the local school board. She wrote a column on Black history for the Contrast newspaper. In 1975, Braithwaite published The Black Woman in Canada on outstanding Canadian Black women. She also helped the Ministry of Education in Ontario develop a Black Studies guide for use in the classroom.
Her daughter is singer Diana Braithwaite.
