Edith's mother Lydia was the daughter of William Christie (HBC chief factor at Edmonton) and Mary Sinclair.

Her maternal great-grandfather, Alexander Christie, served as Governor of Assiniboia[2] on two occasions, and supervised the construction of Fort Garry.

His son, William J. Christie, worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Manitoba from 1843 to 1873, and was named Inspecting Chief Factor in 1868.

Rogers herself was born in the tiny outpost of Norway House, six hundred kilometres north of Winnipeg,[4] the daughter of Donald MacTavish,[5] a chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Company.

[8] In 1920, Rogers was asked to become a "star candidate" for the Liberal Party in the Winnipeg constituency, which elected ten members by a single transferable ballot.

[4][11] Rogers's daughter, Margaret Konantz, served as a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1963 to 1965, and was the first woman ever elected as a federal MP from Manitoba.