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    Margaret Brooke

    Margaret Martha Brooke, MBE, dietician, naval officer, war hero, paleontologist (born 10 April 1915 in Ardath, SK; died 9 January 2016 in Victoria, BC). Brooke was a nursing sister during the Second World War and survived the torpedoing of the SS Caribou. For her heroism immediately after the sinking, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), the first Canadian nursing sister so recognized. One of the Harry DeWolf-class Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessels was named in her honour. 

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    Margaret C. Macdonald

    Margaret Clothilde Macdonald, RRC, nurse, nursing administrator, officer (born 26 February 1873 in Bailey’s Brook, NS; died 7 September 1948 in Bailey’s Brook, NS). Macdonald was a Canadian military nurse who served in the South African War and the First World War. In 1914, she was appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing Service, Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC). She was the first woman in the British Empire to obtain the rank of major. Macdonald was named a National Historic Person in 1982.

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    Margaret Christakos

    Margaret Christakos, poet, novelist, editor, teacher (b at Sudbury, Ontario 1962). Margaret Christakos is an award winning, internationally recognized experimental writer who works in both poetry and prose.

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    Margaret Crang

    Margaret Tryphene Francis Crang, lawyer, politician, labour activist (born 30 August 1910 in Edmonton, Alberta; died 3 January 1991 in Vancouver, British Columbia). Margaret Crang was the youngest person ever to serve on the Edmonton City Council; in 1935, she became the first woman to be reelected. She briefly visited the front of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and made headlines by firing a rifle for the Republican forces. Throughout her active career in politics and law, she was an advocate against fascism and for workers’, women’s and immigrants’ rights. 

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    Margaret Drynan

    Margaret (Isobel) Drynan (b Brown). Teacher, composer, organist-choirmaster, writer, b Toronto 10 Dec 1915, d Oshawa, Ont, 18 Feb 1999; B MUS (Toronto) 1943, ARCT 1975, honorary FRCCO 1984. Her teachers included Arthur Benjamin, Madeline Bone, Michael Head, E.

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    Margaret Ecker

    Margaret Alberta Corbett Ecker, journalist (born 1915 in Edmonton, AB; died 3 April 1965 in Ibiza, Spain). Margaret Ecker was an award-winning newspaper and magazine writer. She was the only woman to serve overseas as a war correspondent for the Canadian Press wire service during the Second World War. She was also the only woman present at Germany’s unconditional surrender in 1945. Ecker was made an officer of the Netherlands’ House of the Orange Order in 1947, making her the first Canadian woman to receive that honour.

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    Margaret Gilkison

    Margaret Gilkison (b Geddes). Organist, pianist, b Aberdeen, d Ontario. She moved to Canada in 1834 and married David Gilkison the following year.

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    Margaret Hollingsworth

    Margaret Hollingsworth's work focuses on dislocation, sometimes associated with movement across space (immigration, uprooting), sometimes with a kind of inner migration or exile.

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    Margaret Huston

    Margaret Huston (b Houghston). Mezzo-soprano, teacher, b Toronto ca 1878, d near Greenwich, Conn, 1 Aug 1942. She was an elder sister of the actor Walter Huston.

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    Margaret Iris Duley

    Margaret Iris Duley, writer (b at St John's 27 Sept 1894; d there 22 Mar 1968). Duley won international recognition with 4 novels: The Eyes of the Gull (1936), Cold Pastoral (1939), Highway to Valour (1941) and Novelty on Earth (1942).

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    Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence (née Jean Margaret Wemyss), CC, novelist (born 18 July 1926 in Neepawa, MB; died 5 January 1987 in Lakefield, ON). Margaret Laurence was one of the pivotal and foundational figures in women’s literature in Canada. Two of her novels — A Jest of God (1966) and The Diviners (1974) — won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. She also wrote acclaimed poetry, short stories and children’s literature, helped found the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Writers’ Trust of Canada, and served as chancellor of Trent University. She was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1972 and was named a Person of National Historic Significance by the government of Canada in 2018.

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    Margaret MacLeod

    Margaret MacLeod (b Arnett). Historian, collector, b Kerwood, west of London, Ont, 1877, d Winnipeg 17 Feb 1966. Educated in Brandon, Man, and Winnipeg, she devoted herself to researching the social history of Manitoba and especially of the Red River Valley.

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    Margaret MacMillan

    Margaret Olwen MacMillan, historian, author (born 23 December 1943 in Toronto, Ontario). Margaret MacMillan is professor emerita of history at the University of Toronto and international history at the University of Oxford. Her bestselling 2001 book, Paris 1919, examines the lasting impact of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of the First World War. She continues to write about the role of war and peacemaking on human society.

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    Margaret Marshall Saunders

    Margaret Marshall Saunders, writer (b at Milton, NS 13 Apr 1861; d at Toronto 15 Feb 1947). She moved with her family to Halifax at age 6. At 15 she attended boarding school in Edinburgh, then studied French at Orléans. On her return home she taught school for a short time.

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    Margaret Millar

    Margaret Millar (née Margaret Ellis Sturm), crime novelist (born 5 February 1915 in Kitchener, ON; died 26 March 1994 in Montecito, California). Margaret Millar won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Best Novel and a Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America. She was named Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1965.

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