Losing a bridge builder: the death of Gretta Chambers

The Montreal columnist and ex-McGill chancellor died Sept. 9 after a career interpreting francophone Quebec to Anglos.

'I just always felt the importance of explaining, English and French, one to the other, of who we were,' the late Montreal social commentator Gretta Chambers once said. Photograph courtesy of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

September 20, 2017

The death of Gretta Chambers on Sept. 9 did not make national headlines, but it struck a profound chord with Quebecers. Chambers was one of that generation of great Montrealers who sought to build bridges to the francophone community at a time of tension and misunderstanding, and who did it with sty...

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