Margaret Robertson Watt

Margaret Robertson Watt MBE was a Canadian writer, editor and activist. She was a woman of great energy and drive who believed strongly in the power exerted by women working together. She is known to members of Womens Institutes in the United Kingdom for introducing the concepts and practices of the Canadian Womens Institute movement to Britain in 1914. She is remembered internationally as one of the founding members of the Associated Country Women of the World in 1933.

Madge Robertson Watt was born Margaret Rose Robertson in Collingwood, Ontario, on June 4, 1868. Her father was Henry Robertson Q.C. , son of John and Catherine Robertson of Hamilton. Her mother Bethia was the daughter of John and Margaret Climie Rose of Bradford. Both parents were Canadianborn children of Scottish emigrants.

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