Greta Chambers

Gretta Chambers got into journalism by translating books and political treatises. From 1966 to 1978, she researched, wrote and hosted The Province in Print, a weekly CBC radio show about the Quebec press. She wrote a weekly column for The Gazette, affiliated with Southam News, from 1978 to 1983.

Gretta Chambers was host of The Editors, a weekly public affairs show broadcast on CFCF 12 and a number of other private stations in Canada from 1977 to 1980. She was a member from 1977 to 1980 of the editorial board and journalist for Report Magazine, a Canadian business magazine, and a columnist for The Regina Leader Post and the London Free Press beginning in 1988.

Gretta Chambers contributed to Langue et Société, CBC Newsworld and CBC radio as a political commentator. She occasionally lent her skills to the International Herald Tribune, CJAD, CBF, CJMS, Radio-Canada and Radio-Québec.

Chancellor of McGill University from 1991 to 1999, she had been one of its governors since 1978 and governor emerita since 1988. She chaired the board of directors of the McGill University Research Institute and the Montreal Children’s Hospital, was a member of the Conseil de la magistrature du Québec, was chair of the task force on the anglophone school network in Quebec in 1992 and after that chaired the Advisory Board on English Education for the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sport. She was a member of the board of the Laurentienne générale and the Institut de Design de Montréal.

Gretta Chambers was one of the first female anglophone journalists to take an interest in French-speaking Quebec and wrote a weekly column for The Gazette.

Gretta Chambers was named an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec in 1993.

Gretta Chambers was inducted into the Academy of Great Montrealers in the Scientific category in 1995 and was named a Commander of the Ordre de Montréal in 2016.