Margaret Anchoretta Ormsby OBC (7 June 1909 – 2 November 1996) was a Canadian historian, particularly concerning the history of British Columbia.
[1] Ormsby taught in the United States for the next three years, then became a lecturer at McMaster University in 1940, returning to teach at UBC in 1943.
[citation needed] During her career she wrote extensively about the history and political development of British Columbia.
[4] In 1976 she was editor of the book A Pioneer Gentle Woman in British Columbia: the Recollections of Susan Allison.
[7] Ormsby posited a series of propositions that sought to explain the ongoing pull between maritime and continental forces; the opposition between a hierarchical model of society represented by the Hudson's Bay Company and colonial officials, and the more egalitarian ideas of English and Canadian settlers; and regional tensions between Vancouver Island and mainland, metropolitan Vancouver and the hinterland interior.