Ormsby

Margaret Ormsby was born in 1909 in Quesnel but spent most of her childhood in the Okanagan Valley, where her father, a returned veteran, had taken out an orchard acreage on the banks of Kalamalka Lake in the suburb of Coldstream near Vernon, which subsequently became Margaret’s much beloved home base. Thanks to her parents’ strong encouragement to pursue higher education, in 1925, she enrolled at UBC earning a B.A. (1929) and M.A. (1931) in History.