Margaret Coll

Margaret Coll is the founder of Conference Coll Inc., which was the second largest independent conference management company in Ottawa before its closure in 1999 .

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Biography

Margaret J. Coll was born Margaret J. Duhan in 1933 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, to William Preller Duhan and Kathleen Victoria Masson.

Coll's parents divorced and her mother, a Canadian citizen, brought her family of five children back to her home in Montreal, Quebec in 1936, as rumors of an impending war with Germany were escalating. Marg's mother remarried and the family settled in Richelieu, Quebec and then St. Lambert, Quebec Canada.

Margaret Duhan married David Clarence Coll in 1955. She worked at Bell Canada in Montreal, Quebec for several years until she and her husband moved to Ottawa, Ontario.

They moved to Boston in 1957 where David Coll pursued PhD studies in Information Theory at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Marg Coll worked for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in Boston as a receptionist, and also managed the elevator staff for the four elevators.

Marg was president of the MIT Dames 1958 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the student wives organization of 450 members. She and her husband came back to Ottawa in 1959.

In 1971, Coll, at the age of forty, founded Conference Coll Inc. (CCI), an event planning and conference management company.

She and her husband have three children, Barbara Coll, Eric Clarence Coll, and Nancy Catherine Coll.

Employment and civic contributions

Conference Coll Inc.

Conference Coll Inc. (CCI) [1] 1973–1999 was the second largest independent conference management company in Ottawa for 22 years. The high tech industry was the source of most of CCI’s employment. Clients included conferences for: IEEE HDTV[2] a key topic of conferences at the time, Nortel Networks (Internet Standards), Carleton University High Tech Updates; Spectrum 20/20, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada; Health Canada; Industry Canada; Environment Canada; Communications Research Centre; AMR - Advanced Management Research; Canadian Space Agency; Standards Council of Canada; Communications Security Establishment; Agriculture Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Conference Board of Canada; Data Tech Institute; Advanced Technology International; and many others.

Marg Coll retired at the age of 68 and closed Conference Coll Inc.

Volunteer positions

Press/News Activities

Images

References

  1. ^ http://www.rideauheritageroute.ca/tourism/listbygroup.aspx?lang=en&dir=groups&type=misc&link=planningaids&gid=72
  2. ^ "FCC Eyeing HDTV Evolution". IEEE. March 3, 2003. http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/products/whats-new/wnstudents/wnstudents0303.html#10. 
  3. ^ http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/a-sac/2006/05-17/minutes24.htm
  4. ^ www.cjvrm.org/past/Canadian_Journal_2008_-_2.pdf
  5. ^ http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/ottawa/news/index.html
  6. ^ http://arc.library.carleton.ca/collections/browse/coll
  7. ^ group of entrepreneurs dedicated to promoting and enhancing the exposition industry in the National Capital Region