Helen Gardiner

Helen Gardiner

Helen Gardiner, née McMinn (July 18, 1938 – July 22, 2008) was a Canadian philanthropist.

She was born in 1938 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario to a working family. She later moved to Toronto with her family and attended York University and Christie's Fine Arts School in London. She later married businessman George R. Gardiner, with whom she co-founded the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Arts in Toronto. [ [http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5heF9ktNmpdtEUJWdphC6jAc27-eA Helen Gardiner, co-founder of Toronto's Gardiner Museum, dead at age 70] ]

She was awarded the Order of Canada in 2007. Helen Gardiner died of cancer in Caledon, Ontario. [ [http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/465483 Helen Gardiner's passion helped found museum] ]

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