Former journalist and McGill University chancellor Gretta Chambers dies at 90
MONTREAL — Gretta Chambers, a noted journalist and McGill University’s first female chancellor, has died at the age of 90.
The Montreal university said in a statement that Chambers held the position from 1991 to 1999 and also served on the school’s board of governors.
Chambers graduated from McGill in 1947 and had a long career as a journalist and political commentator for several news outlets beginning in the mid-1960s.
The Quebec government’s biography of Chambers describes her as one of the first female journalists to take an interest in francophone Quebec.