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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Canadian journalist}}<br />
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| name = Gretta Chambers<br />
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OQ|size=100%}}<br />
| office = 16th [[List of McGill University people#List of chancellors|Chancellor of McGill University]]<br />
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| birth_name = Gretta Taylor<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|01|15}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|09|09|1927|01|15|mf=y}}<br />
| death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada<br />
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| awards = [[Order of Canada]]<br>[[National Order of Quebec]]<br />
| term_start = 1991<br />
| term_end = 1999<br />
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| known_for =Former journalist and chancellor of McGill University <br />
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'''Gretta Chambers''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OQ}} (''[[née]]'' '''Taylor'''; January 15, 1927 – September 9, 2017)<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/gretta-chambers-dead-1.4282595 Gretta Chambers, former CBC host and chancellor of McGill, dead at 90] CBC News September 9, 2017</ref> was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] journalist and former Chancellor of [[McGill University]].<br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
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Chambers grew up in Outremont and attended [[Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School]] and [[Rothesay Netherwood School|Netherwood School]].<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/federalist-gretta-chambers-bridged-quebecs-two-solitudes/article36273943/ Trailblazing journalist Gretta Chambers bridged Quebec’s two solitudes]</ref> She received a BA in political science from McGill University in 1947. She worked in radio and television and wrote for several newspapers and magazines. From 1966 until 1980, she was the host of the weekly CBC radio show called ''The Province in Print''. From 1977 to 2002, she had a weekly column in the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]''.<br />
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Since its inception in 1991, until her death in 2017, she was involved with the Montreal Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training (MCHRAT) at McGill University.{{cn|date=September 2023}} When a MCHRAT project, the [[McGill Middle East Program]] (MMEP), took off in 1997, Chambers became a co-chair of its executive and management committees.<br />
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She was chancellor of McGill University from 1991 to 1999, the first woman to serve in this position. In 2003, [[Martin Cauchon]], Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, appointed her to the [[Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission]], effective until August 31, 2007.<br />
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Her brother is McGill University philosopher [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]].<ref>[https://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/13/taylor/ Charles Taylor awarded Templeton]</ref> Her husband was [[Egan Chambers]], former Canadian member of parliament. She was survived by her five children and eight grandchildren.<br />
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== Honours and awards ==<br />
In 1993, she was named an Officer of the [[National Order of Quebec]]. In 1994, she was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]], and she was promoted to Companion in 2000.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{cite web|title=Gretta Chambers |work=Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission |url=http://www.quadcom.gc.ca/bio/chambers_en.pdf |accessdate=2005-02-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050307043905/http://www.quadcom.gc.ca/bio/chambers_en.pdf |archivedate=2005-03-07 |url-status=dead }}<br />
* {{Canadian honour|Type=orc|ID=3264|accessdate=26 May 2010}}<br />
* [http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2017/09/chancellor-emerita-gretta-chambers-1927-2017/ Chancellor Emerita Gretta Chambers, 1927-2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114215527/http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2017/09/chancellor-emerita-gretta-chambers-1927-2017/ |date=2017-11-14 }} McGill Reporter, 9 September 2017<br />
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