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Laurentian University History professor consulted by Parks Canada for historic plaque.

Dr. Linda Ambrose (left) stands next to the reproduction of a plaque about 'Madge' Robertson Watt.

 Dr. Linda Ambrose, professor in the Department of History, recently published a biography of Margaret 'Madge' Robertson Watt, called A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW (University of Toronto Press, 2015); the first biography ever written about Watt. Dr. Ambrose was consulted by Parks Canada historian, Dr. Dianne Dodd, in 2007 for a plaque about Madge Watt that will be installed in British Columbia in the near future.