Margaret Fairley

Margaret Adele Fairley ( Keeling; 1885–1968) was a British-born Canadian writer, educator, and political activist. From 1936 to her death, she was a member of the Communist Party of Canada. She was deported from the USA for her politics and there is a park named for her in Toronto.

Life Margaret was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Her elder sister was Dorothy Keeling a leading social worker.

At a time that the university did not grant degrees to women, she studied at Oxford and finished with a "first" in English. She became tutor in English at St Hilda's College

On June 23, 1972, the City of Toronto named a park after her at the corner of Brunswick Avenue and Ulster Street and provided a plaque with her name on a granite boulder. Later, family and friends raised the money to erect a bronze bust.

Some of her manuscripts are in the collection of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

Her son-in-law is the musician Ezra Schabas, and her grandson is the academic William Schabas, as is her granddaughter Margaret Schabas.