Joan Chalmers

Margaret Joan Chalmers
Born (1928-05-30) May 30, 1928
Toronto, Ontario
Awards Order of Canada
Order of Ontario

Margaret Joan Chalmers, CC OOnt (born 30 May 1928 in Toronto)[1] is a Canadian philanthropist and supporter of the arts.

In 1972, she and her parents, Floyd and Jean Chalmers, founded the annual Chalmers Awards, which donates $25,000 CAD to artists in dance, theatre, crafts, film, the visual arts and music.

She was involved with the traveling exhibit, Survivors in Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage, which as a collaboration among 24 prominent Canadian women artists and over 100 breast cancer survivors.

While celebrating her 70th birthday in 1998, she announced that she would provide 20 arts groups with a total of $1 million in funding.[2]

Chalmers is the partner of former singer-songwriter Barbra Amesbury.

Honours

References

  1. Birth Notices, The Globe and Mail, 31 May 1928, page 12
  2. Ontario Arts Council press release, 25 May 1998
  3. 1 2 3 Office of the Governor General of Canada. Order of Canada citation. Queen's Printer for Canada. Retrieved 26 May 2010


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