Joyce Fairbairn, a Canadian journalist, was the first woman to serve as the leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate. She was also the first woman to be a member of the Ottawa Press Gallery and was a founder of the Canadian Paralympic Foundation.
Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1939, she was the daughter of Lynden Eldon Fairbairn and Mary Elizabeth Young. She married Michael Gillan in 1967.
She died in 2022.[1] A Lethbridge middle school was named in her honour.
Sources
↑ "Fairbairn, Senator Joyce", The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Sat, Apr 2, 2022, page B8, Newspapers Clip: 136186844 (accessed 2 December 2023).
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238365627/joyce-ella_margaret-fairbairn: accessed 02 December 2023), memorial page for Joyce Ella Margaret Fairbairn (6 Nov 1939–29 Mar 2022), Find a Grave Memorial ID 238365627, citing Mountain View Cemetery, Lethbridge, Lethbridge Census Division, Alberta, Canada; Maintained by Find a Grave.
WikiTree profile Fairbairn-223 created by L Henderson through the import of FAIRBAIRNRobertSCOTTKate4WikiTreePlaceUpdated.ged on Mar 25, 2013. ('Reference: 56656)
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