Ormsby, Margaret Anchoretta

ORMSBY, Margaret Anchoretta, historian (b 7 June 1909, Quesnel; d 2 Nov 1996, Coldstream). She was born in QUESNEL and raised in LUMBY. After graduating from UBC and Bryn Mawr College, she joined the history department at McMaster Univ for 3 years, then returned to UBC to teach in 1943. In 1964 she became the first female head of the history department. Her book British Columbia: A History (1958), commissioned to celebrate the BC centennial, was the standard work for 3 decades. She maintained a...

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