Joyce Fairbairn was a teenage journalist when she was a student at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, and wrote a column entitled "Teen Chatter" in the Lethbridge Herald.
10 Facts About Joyce Fairbairn
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Joyce Fairbairn attended the University of Alberta where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and Carleton University where she earned a degree in journalism.
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Joyce Fairbairn married Michael Charles Frederick Gillan in 1967; he died in 2002.
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Joyce Fairbairn worked as a journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa before being hired as a legislative assistant to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1970.
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Joyce Fairbairn served in cabinet until 1997, after which she took on the role as Special Advisor on Literacy to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development.
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Joyce Fairbairn chaired the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and the Special Senate Committee on the Anti-terrorism Act.
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Joyce Fairbairn sat on the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry until June 2012.
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Joyce Fairbairn became involved with the Paralympics movement in Canada as early as 1998.
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The Joyce Fairbairn case led to calls for the Senate to establish rules to address similar situations should they arise.
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Joyce Fairbairn died in Lethbridge on March 29,2022, at the age of 82.