Margaret Anglin was born in Ottawa, Ontario, one of nine children of newspaper editor and politician Timothy Warren Anglin (1822--1896) who at the time of her birth was the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
Margaret Anglin was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the eldest of nine children of newspaper editor and politician Timothy Warren Anglin (1822--1896) by his second wife, Miss MacTavish. At the time of her birth in Ottawa, April 3rd, 1876, he was the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.