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Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray
Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray, OC (1888 - September 25, 1982, age 94) was an American-Canadian newspaper editor, publisher, and columnist, an officer of the Order of Canada, and the wife of publisher and British Columbia MLA George Murray. The Murrays's publications were ''The Chinook'' in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the ''Bridge River-Lillooet News'' in Lillooet and the ''Alaska Highway News'' in Fort St. John.
A Kansas farm girl made good and known for her spicy wit, backcountry wisdoms, and down-to-earth style, "Ma" was co-founder and editor (with her husband George) of the ''Bridge River-Lillooet News'', the ''Alaska Highway News'' and other publications. Her editorials were famously signed off with the catchphrase "And that's fer damshur!".
==Kansas to Canada==
Born Margaret Theresa Lally in Kansas City, Missouri to Irish immigrants, Margaret was raised on rural Kansas farmland in the United States, largely in poverty. She came to Vancouver, British Columbia en route to Calgary, Alberta, where she hoped to find herself a cowboy to wed (she had worked in a saddle factory in Kansas City, and she and her sister, Bess, had corresponded with cowboys who had written in response to the notes they had tucked into the most expensive saddles being shipped north.
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