Rose Wolfe, CM OOnt (née Senderowitz; August 7, 1916 – December 30, 2016) was a Canadian social worker, administrator and philanthropist.
[1] Rose was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Morris and Clara Senderowitz, Romanian Jewish immigrants.
Somehow, her baker father, who sold loaves of bread for five cents each, managed to send all four daughters to the University of Toronto.
"[Rose] once wanted to be a doctor but felt her marks in math were not good enough, so she chose sociology instead" and graduated in 1940 from the University of Toronto.
[2] That same year she married Ray Wolfe,[2] the founder and CEO of the Oshawa Group Limited and the founding president of the Canadian Jewish News.