Phyllis Ross was the mother of the 17th Prime Minister of Canada, John Turner.
10 Facts About Phyllis Ross
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Phyllis Ross's parents were mining company hoist operator, James William 'Jimmy' Gregory, of Stellarton, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, of Irish extraction, and his wife Mary Margaret Macdonald, of Mulgrave, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, daughter of a wealthy shipowning sea captain, of Scottish Catholic origins.
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Phyllis Ross received a Bachelor's degree in economics and political science with first class honours from the University of British Columbia in 1925.
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Phyllis Ross studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Marburg.
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Phyllis Ross married journalist Leonard Hugh Turner in London, England, in 1928.
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Phyllis Ross's husband died of malaria complicated by goitre when she was 29.
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Phyllis Ross settled first with her parents in Rossland, and eventually she managed to obtain a position in Ottawa as an economist in the Public Service of Canada.
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Phyllis Ross was a member of the UBC Senate from 1951 to 1954 and again from 1960 to 1966.
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Phyllis Ross was a Dame of St John of Jerusalem and, as a Roman Catholic laywoman, a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
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Phyllis Ross died in her sleep on Saltspring Island in 1988.