Margaret ‘Ma’ Murray was born in Windy Ridge, Kansas in 1888. After spending She and her husband, George, worked at various newspapers and were actively involved in politics. In 1941 she and George moved to Fort St. John where she started the Alaska Highway News. She became very involved with the community and an intelligent and out-spoken voice on a variety of topics from politics to farming. In 1971 she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian journalism and in that same year received an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University. In 1959, at the age of 71, she and George moved to Lillooet to try to open up a publishing trade school. She passed away in 1982 in Lillooet at the age of 94.

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