Beverley Noel Salmon CM OOnt (née Bell; December 25, 1930 – July 6, 2023) was a Canadian activist and municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario.
Born in Toronto on December 25, 1930, Salmon was the daughter of Herbert Bell, a Jamaican immigrant, and Violet Bryan, a fifth generation Canadian of Scottish descent.
[citation needed] Salmon was the founding chair of the Toronto Board of Education's Black Liaison Committee, where she worked to institute anti-racism training for teachers and increase coverage of Black history in the curriculum.
[5] She was a co-founder of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations and was the Ontario Human Rights Commission's first Black female commissioner.
[6] Salmon first ran for elected office in the 1976 municipal election as alderman for Ward 8 in North York, losing to Alan Milliken Heisey Sr. She ran again as Councillor for Ward 8 in the 1985 municipal election and defeated Andy Borins, who had been removed from office as Ward 8 Councillor during the previous term by a court order due to a court application made by Barbara Greene.