120. Phyllis Turner Ross – Career Woman and Single Mother

This is the story of Phyllis Gregory Turner Ross, the remarkable mother of Canadian Prime Minister John Turner who, after a rocky start in England, came to Ottawa as a single mother in the 1930s and worked her way up to become the highest-ranking woman in Canada’s wartime civil service. Written by Paul Litt and Christine F. Jackson.

Ben Weiss put forward to Paul Litt to reprint in the HSO pamphlets material from the author's book Elusive Destiny dealing with the Turners' years in Ottawa. ISBN 978-1-998054-03-9. June 2023.