Margaret Trudeau

Trudeau was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/margaret-trudeau|title=Margaret Trudeau|work=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=20 May 2025}} the daughter of Scottish-born James "Jimmy" Sinclair, a former Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Doris Kathleen (Bernard) Sinclair.{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=J. Keith|author2=Public Archives of Canada|title= The Canadian directory of Parliament, 1867–1967|publisher=Queen's Printer|year=1968|pages=532}} Her grandmother, Rose Edith (Ivens) Bernard, with whom she had an especially close relationship, lived in Roberts Creek, British Columbia, in later life, and was from Virden, Manitoba.{{cite web|url=http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/rose-edith-bernard-roberts-creek|title=Item GR-1490.16.13.44 – Rose Edith Bernard, Roberts Creek|website=BC Archives|access-date=May 11, 2017}} Her grandfather, Thomas Kirkpatrick Bernard, was born in Makassar, Dutch Celebes, now in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and immigrated in 1906 at age 15 with his family to Penticton, British Columbia, eventually working as a payroll clerk for Canadian Pacific Railway.{{cite web |url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-1865-1922/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=15662& |title=Passenger lists of the AORANGI arriving in Vancouver, British Columbia on 1906-06 |publisher=Government of Canada |website=Canada.ca |date=March 10, 2017 |access-date=March 10, 2017}}

The Bernards were the descendants of colonists in the Straits Settlements, the Dutch East Indies, and British Malaya, nowadays respectively Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, including Francis James Bernard, a London, England-born Anglo-Irishman whose great-grandfather, Arthur Bernard, was a member of the Irish House of Commons for Bandonbridge, and brother of Francis Bernard, Solicitor-General for Ireland, and ancestor of the Earls of Bandon.{{cite book|last=Johnston-Liik|first=Edith Mary|date=2006|title=MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800|publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation|isbn=9781903688601|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jitdluWSybIC|access-date=July 24, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/Bernards_of_Palace_Anne.htm|title=The Bernards of Palace Anne|website=Bandon Cork Ancestors and Genealogy Heritage Roots Ireland|access-date=July 24, 2016}} Francis James Bernard was the founder of the Singapore Police Force in 1819, The Singapore Chronicle, the first newspaper in Singapore, was established with Bernard as owner, publisher, and editor in 1824{{cite journal|jstor=41502912|title=The Singapore Chronicle (1824–37)|author=C. A. Gibson-Hill|journal=Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society|volume=26| issue = 1 (161)|date=July 1953|pages= 175–199}} and he opened up Katong, now a densely populated-residential enclave, the first to cultivate a coconut estate there in 1823. In 1818, Bernard married Margaret Trudeau's 3rd great-grandmother, Esther Farquhar. She was the eldest daughter of Scotsman William Farquhar, a colonial leader in the founding of modern Singapore, by Farquhar's first wife, Antoinette "Nonio" Clement, who was the daughter of a French father and an ethnic Malaccan mother."Stamford Raffles was not-above sneering at Farquhar's Malay wife and the children by her he acknowledged. 'The Maya Connexion', he termed them archly." {{cite book|last=Barley|first=Nigel|date=1991|title=The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=159wAAAAMAAJ|location=Great Britain|publisher=Viking|page=242|isbn=9780670836420}}{{cite book |last=Ford|first=D.|date=December 31, 2005|title=The World of Antoinette Clement: Colonial Mistress|url=http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:78037|location=Australia|publisher=University of Queensland}}

Another great-grandmother, Cornelia Louisa Intveld, married in 1822 to Royal Navy officer and merchant, William Purvis, from Dalgety Bay, Scotland, and a first cousin of American abolitionist Robert Purvis; she was a noted fine soprano and a beauty of her era.{{cite book|last=Hedemann|first=Nancy Oakley|date=1994|title=A Scottish-Hawaiian story: the Purvis family in the Sandwich Islands|publisher=Book Crafters|isbn=9780964402003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oNpIAAAAMAAJ|access-date=July 20, 2016}} Upon glimpsing her across the auditorium at the opera in London, England, British King William IV sent his equerry to invite her to his box. After she refused, the King sent the equerry back just to ask her name.{{cite book|last=Douglas-Home|first=Jessica|date=1996|title=Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse|publisher=Harvill Press|isbn=9781860462696|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LogHAQAAMAAJ|access-date=July 20, 2016}} Intveld was born in Padang, present-day West Sumatra, Indonesia. At the time of Intveld's birth, Padang was in the territory of the Pagaruyung Kingdom, where her father, who came from humble beginnings in Hellevoetsluis, South Holland, rose up through the Dutch East India Company to become the Dutch Resident of Padang. Her maternal grandmother was an Ono Niha ranee (a term covering every rank from chieftain's daughter to princess) who married a prominent Dutch colonial official and merchant.{{cite book|last=Cooper|first=Artemis|date=2011|title=Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571279777|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYAKPntbPi4C|access-date=July 20, 2016}} Acclaimed British harpsichordist Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, and Hawaiian settler Edward William Purvis, according to popular belief, was the namesake of the ukulele, are Margaret Trudeau's first cousins, three times removed. Trudeau explored her mother's family's roots in Singapore during an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

Trudeau's family moved to a large house in Rockcliffe Park, Ontario, in 1952 after her father was appointed to the Cabinet, and she attended Rockcliffe Park Public School{{Cite news |url=http://www.pressreader.com/similar/283055528255552|title=Growing Up in the Public Eye|newspaper=Toronto Star |last=Coyle |first=Jim |date=October 17, 2015 |access-date=August 26, 2016}} although they returned to North Vancouver after he lost his re-election bid in 1958. She attended Hamilton Junior Secondary School and Delbrook Senior Secondary School in North Vancouver. Trudeau graduated in 1969 from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfu.ca/appreciation/tribute/473/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811220622/www.sfu.ca/appreciation/tribute/473/index.html|archive-date=2020-08-11|title=SFU Alumni Appreciation}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=October 2022}}

Sinclair met Pierre Trudeau, who was then Minister of Justice, while vacationing in Tahiti with her family when she was 18. Sinclair did not recognize him, and she in fact thought little of their encounter, but Trudeau, then 47, was captivated by the carefree "flower child" and began to pursue her.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Pierre Trudeau was a bachelor before he became Prime Minister in 1968. They kept their romance private, so Canadians were shocked after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation led its morning radio broadcast{{Cite news|title=Trudeau's Bride Takes All by Surprise|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/03/06/page/4/article/trudeaus-bride-takes-all-by-surprise|agency=Chicago Tribune Press Services|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|last=Griffin|first=Eugene|date=March 6, 1971|access-date=August 27, 2016}} about Prime Minister Trudeau honeymooning at Alta Lake, British Columbia, at the foot of Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort{{Cite news|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|agency=Canadian Press|author=|date=February 4, 1972|access-date=August 27, 2016|title=Trudeaus on ski holiday at honeymoon residence|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vzE0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=VPUIAAAAIBAJ&pg=3104%2C1008875|quote=...staying in their honeymoon residence – a condominium owned by Mrs. Trudeau's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Sinclair of North Vancouver. The Trudeaus spent three days skiing Whistler last March after their surprise wedding}}{{Cite web|author=|title=A Prime Minister in love|url=http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2015/03/01/a-prime-minister-in-love|website=Whistorical: Official Blog of the Whistler Museum|date=March 1, 2015|access-date=August 27, 2016 |quote=They surprised the media with their secret wedding in Vancouver, and, afterward, drove directly to Whistler for a three-day stay. }} the day after a surprise wedding in North Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 4, 1971.{{cite news|author=|title=Colleagues, family discuss secret Trudeau wedding|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/colleagues-family-discuss-secret-trudeau-wedding|website=CBC Digital Archives|date=March 5, 1971|access-date=November 13, 2015}} Although she had accompanied Pierre Trudeau in public a year before to ice skate and dance at an event at Rideau Hall, official residence of Canada's Governor General, it was a complete secret except to immediate family members and close friends that she was in a romantic relationship, then in a six-month engagement to the Prime Minister.

As Pierre Trudeau was a Catholic, she converted to the Catholic Church for their marriage. When asked about her role in a marriage to the prime minister, Trudeau said, "I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel."{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

In 1971, the Trudeaus took a second honeymoon in the Caribbean to Barbados and an unidentified nearby island{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/41523862/ |work=The Ottawa Journal |date=April 13, 1971 |page=5 |title=Trudeaus' Privacy Respected |quote=BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (UPI) – Prime Minister Trudeau and his wife left here Monday by chartered plane on a quick sidetrip to an unidentified nearby island. They arrived here Thursday on a brief "second honeymoon," and reportedly stayed at a private residence on the island's posh west coast.}} then Tobago, then to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (including both Bequia and St. Vincent) with Pierre taking a side-trip to Trinidad while Margaret stayed in Tobago.{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/41524010/ |work=The Ottawa Journal |date=April 16, 1971 |page=9 |title=Trudeau Meets Williams |quote=PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuter) – Prime Minister Trudeau lunched privately-Thursday with Trinidad and Tobago's prime minister, Dr. Eric Williams. Trudeau flew in from Tobago, the sister island of Trinidad, where he was holidaying with his wife since Tuesday. Shortly after his luncheon engagement, Trudeau took a return plane to Tobago to rejoin his wife, Margaret. The Canadian high-commission said it was in not in a position to say when the prime minister and his wife would leave Tobago. "We know he has to be back in Ottawa on April 18," a commission spokesman said. The Trudeaus visited Barbados, and spent a day swimming off Bequia, a tiny island in the Grenadines, and nearby islets while they visited St. Vincent Monday.}}

After Pierre Trudeau's government's near defeat in 1972 (Margaret herself was uninvolved in the campaign), she decided to become much more active for the 1974 federal election.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}} At a rally in Vancouver, she told a crowd of 2,000 her husband taught her "a lot about loving."{{citation needed|date=August 2024}} The remark was wildly mocked and dismissed in public during the campaign by members of the press gallery as well as by her husband's main political rivals Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leader Robert Stanfield and New Democratic Party leader David Lewis.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Liberal party organizers considered her a top campaign asset, and sent her off alone to help local candidates in hotly contested ridings while, as critics noted, the wives of Stanfield and Lewis were on the campaign trail but rarely spoke and stood behind their husbands at events.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Political observers also found Pierre Trudeau noticeably more relaxed at events while Margaret came along. Initially, she brought her six-month-old son Sacha on the trail with her, and one veteran reporter said, "It's the first campaign plane for the first thing off is a crib and a diaper bag."{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Later, she left her sons with her parents in North Vancouver while campaigning. Asked at the time if she thought her campaigning was helping Pierre Trudeau pick up votes, she replied, "I won't know until July 8th. But 52 per cent of the voters in this country are women...an awful lot ..."{{Cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oOhWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OUMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5442%2C548551|title=Mrs. Trudeau Hits Campaign Trail|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Reading Eagle|last=Lederer|first=Edith M.|date=July 2, 1974|access-date=August 26, 2016}} Her husband's party returned to a majority-government.

File:Margaret Sinclair, Pat Nixon, Justin Trudeau 1972-04-14 (cropped).jpg holding Justin Trudeau at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on April 14, 1972.]]

"From the day I became Mrs. Pierre Elliott Trudeau," she writes in her memoirs, "a glass panel was gently lowered into place around me, like a patient in a mental hospital no longer considered able to make decisions and cannot be exposed to a harsh light."{{cite book |title= Beyond Reason|url= https://archive.org/details/beyondreason0000trud|url-access= registration|last= Trudeau|first= Margaret|year= 1980|publisher= Pocket Books|location= New York, New York|page= 193|isbn= 9780671827786}} The couple had three children: Justin (born December 25, 1971), Alexandre (Sacha) (born December 25, 1973), and Michel (October 2, 1975 – November 13, 1998).

Trudeau tore apart a quilt made by Canadian conceptual artist Joyce Wieland{{cite web|url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/joyce-wieland/key-works/reason-over-passion|title=Joyce Wieland, Reason over Passion, 1968|website=Art Canada Institute - Institut de l’art canadien|access-date=June 1, 2019}} on the wall in the prime-minister's official residence in Ottawa because it celebrated "reason over passion".{{cite book|title= How We Got Here: The '70s|last= Frum|first= David|author-link= David Frum|year= 2000|publisher= Basic Books|location= New York, New York|isbn= 0-465-04195-7|page= [https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/115 115]|url= https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/115}} (Her husband's personal motto was "Reason before passion".){{cite book |title=Pierre Trudeau Is Dead at 80; Dashing Fighter for Canada|last= Kaufman|first= Michael|author-link= Michael T. Kaufman|year= 2009|publisher= online}}

File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Cananda, Jimmy Carter, Margaret Trudeau and Rosalynn Carter at State Visit arrival... - NARA - 173758 (restored).jpg, Margaret Trudeau and Rosalynn Carter at a state visit arrival ceremony at the White House on February 21, 1977.]]

Over time, the marriage disintegrated{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/11/Margaret-Trudeau-writes-of-affair-with-Jack-Nicholson-cocaine/1144379573200/|title=Margaret Trudeau writes of affair with Jack Nicholson, cocaine|website=UPI|date= January 11, 1982|access-date=June 1, 2019}} to the point where, as recounted in her 1982 book Consequences, Trudeau had affairs with Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, Lou Rawls, and a friendship with US Senator Ted Kennedy. She was also associated with members of the Rolling Stones, including Ronnie Wood and, according to Keith Richards' autobiography, Life, Mick Jagger.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/13/rolling-stones-some-girls-interview | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Elizabeth | last=Day | title=The Rolling Stones: that 50-year itch | date=November 13, 2011}}{{cite book|last=Richards|first=Keith|title=Life|url=https://archive.org/details/life00richar|url-access=registration|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|year=2010|isbn=978-0-316-03438-8 | oclc = 548642133}}{{rp|Page 393}}

She separated from her husband in 1977. Pierre Trudeau won custody of the children and did not pay spousal support. Margaret Trudeau had a difficult time earning a living after her marriage. She wrote the 1979 book Beyond Reason about her marriage.{{Cn|date=July 2024}}

On the eve of the 1979 election, in which Pierre Trudeau's party lost the majority of seats in the House of Commons, she was dancing at Studio 54 nightclub in New York City. A photo of her at the disco was featured on many front pages across Canada.{{Cite news|title=First Lady Wild Child: Margaret Trudeau|url=http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a14456/margaret-trudeau-0416|newspaper=Harper's Bazaar|last=Kuczynski|first=Alex|date=March 17, 2016|access-date=August 26, 2016}}

Margaret Trudeau filed for a no-fault divorce at the Ontario Supreme Court on November 16, 1983,{{cite news |author= |title=Margaret Trudeau files for divorce|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k74yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q-8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1351%2C3843497|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=November 17, 1983|access-date=July 14, 2017}} which was finalized on April 2, 1984. On April 18, 1984, with her three sons attending, she married Ottawa real-estate developer Fried Kemper in a civil ceremony in the chambers of Judge Hugh Poulin. She had two children with him: son Kyle (born 1984), and daughter Alicia (born 1988).{{cite news |author= |title=Margaret Trudeau remarries|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/20/world/margaret-trudeau-remarries.html|newspaper=The New York Times|agency=Reuters|date=April 20, 1984|access-date=July 14, 2017}}{{cite journal|last=Anzalone |first=Charles |title=Margaret Trudeau: Forgiveness. Gratitude. Wisdom |journal=Bp |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=22–26 |date=Winter 2008 |url=http://www.bphope.com/trudeauarticle.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321190854/http://www.bphope.com/trudeauarticle.html |archive-date=March 21, 2008 }}

In November 1998, the Trudeaus' youngest son, Michel, an avid outdoorsman, was killed when an avalanche swept him to the bottom of British Columbia's Kokanee Lake. The loss of her son was devastating.{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/justin-trudeaus-mother-margaret-was-like-the-princess-diana-of-canada--with-a-happy-ending/2015/10/22/8d286c30-7907-11e5-bc80-9091021aeb69_story.html | title = Justin Trudeau's mother, Margaret, was like the Princess Diana of Canada — with a happy ending - The Washington Post | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = October 22, 2015 | access-date = October 23, 2015}}

When Pierre Trudeau died in 2000, Margaret was at his bedside with their surviving sons Justin and Alexandre.Cleroux, Richard (September 30, 2000). [http://www.independent.ie/world-news/exwife-at-trudeaus-deathbed-369012.html Ex-wife at Trudeau's deathbed]. Irish Independent. Retrieved May 8, 2020. Speaking in 2010 about her marriage to Trudeau, she said: "Just because our marriage ended didn't mean the love stopped."{{cite web|url=https://www.macleans.ca/culture/just-margaret/|title=Margaret Trudeau's last breakdown|website=Macleans.ca|date=October 8, 2010 |access-date=June 1, 2019}}

On October 19, 2015, her eldest son, Justin Trudeau, led the Liberal Party to a majority government, becoming the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada. During the campaign, she was involved, but avoided campaigning in public as the Conservative campaign's main attack line against Justin was "Just Not Ready" and she feared they would suggest her son was "so unready he needs his mummy."{{Cite news|title=Margaret Trudeau stayed out of campaign to avoid attack ads saying Justin 'needs his mummy'|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/margaret-trudeau-stayed-out-of-campaign-to-avoid-attack-ads-saying-justin-needs-his-mummy|agency=Postmedia News|newspaper=National Post|last=Payle|first=Elizabeth|date=October 23, 2015|access-date=August 26, 2016}}

On April 27, 2020, Trudeau was hospitalized with smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in her apartment building.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/margaret-trudeau-hospital-apartment-fire-1.5547420 "Margaret Trudeau in hospital after fire at Montreal apartment building"]. CBC News Montreal, April 28, 2020.

File:Margaret Trudeau at UFV 17 (31428779353) (cropped).jpg in 2017.]]

From 2002 to 2017, Trudeau was the honorary president of WaterAid Canada, an Ottawa-based organization dedicated to helping the poorest communities in developing countries build sustainable water supply and sanitation services.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/author/margaret-trudeau/|title=Margaret Trudeau|website=HuffPost Canada|access-date=July 30, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/margaret-trudeaus-last-job/#gallery/margaret-trudeau-with-wateraid/slide-1|title=Margaret Trudeau's last job|last=Campbell|first=Meagan|website=Maclean's|date=April 21, 2017|access-date=July 30, 2019}} In 2014, she visited Mali as an ambassador of WaterAid Canada.{{cite web|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/margaret-trudeau-makes-her-mark-in-mali|title=Margaret Trudeau makes her mark in Mali|last=Payne|first=Elizabeth|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=October 12, 2014|access-date=July 30, 2019}}

On May 5, 2006, Trudeau announced she has bipolar disorder.{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/margaret-trudeau-is-solo-sane-60---and-irrepressible-as-ever/article4394810/?page=all |title=Margaret Trudeau is solo, sane, 60 – and irrepressible as ever |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 8, 2009 |first=Sarah |last=Hampson |access-date=October 19, 2014 }} Since then, she advocated for reducing the social-stigma of mental illness—bipolar disorder in particular—with speaking engagements across North America.{{cite news| last =Harrold| first =Max| title =A plea for more aid, less ignorance: Margaret Trudeau at mental health forum describes long struggle with bipolar disorder| page =A7| newspaper =The Gazette| date =November 17, 2007}} In May 2019, she presented the one-woman-show Certain Woman of an Age in Chicago as part of the city's Wellness Week.{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/my-life-has-been-extreme-margaret-trudeau-puts-it-all-on-the-line-at-chicago-premiere-of-her-new-one-woman-show|title='My life has been extreme': Margaret Trudeau speaks with candour in new one-woman show {{!}} National Post|last=Smith|first=Marie-Danielle|date=May 10, 2019|website=National Post|language=en-CA|access-date=May 11, 2019}} She is an honorary patron of the Canadian Mental Health Association.{{cite web |url=http://www.cmha.bc.ca/about-us/patrons |title=Honorary Patrons | Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division |access-date=January 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116091832/http://www.cmha.bc.ca/about-us/patrons |archive-date=January 16, 2014 }}. In July 2019, she attended an opening ceremony of WE College in Narok County (Kenya) with former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell, Kenyan First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Craig Kielburger, a co-founder of WE Charity organization.{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-when-barriers-are-lifted-women-flourish-the-growth-in-kenyas/|title=When barriers are lifted, women flourish. The growth in Kenya's communities prove it|last1=Trudeau|first1=Margaret|last2=Campbell|first2=Kim|date=July 19, 2019|access-date=July 29, 2019|newspaper=The Globe and Mail}}

In 2010, she authored Changing My Mind, a book about her personal experience with bipolar disorder.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/months-before-canadas-election-justin-trudeaus-colorful-mother-takes-the-stage-to-tell-all/2019/07/25/68aa3a84-ad5e-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html|title=Months before Canada's election, Justin Trudeau's colorful mother takes the stage to tell all|last=Coletta|first=Amanda|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 25, 2019|access-date=July 30, 2019}}

In 2013, Trudeau received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario in recognition of her work to combat mental illness.{{cite web|url=http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/senate/honorary/honorary_degrees_by_year.pdf|title=The University of Western Ontario : Honorary Degrees Awarded, 1881–present|website=Uwo.ca|access-date=June 1, 2019}}

• Trudeau, Margaret (1979), Beyond Reason, Grosset & Dunlap, {{ISBN|0-448-23037-2}}
• {{Citation | last = Trudeau | first = Margaret | year = 1982 | title = Consequences | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 0-553-01712-8}}.
• {{Citation | last = Trudeau | first = Margaret | year = 2010 | title = Changing My Mind | publisher = HarperCollins | isbn = 978-1-55468-538-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/changingmymind0000trud_h4y9 }}.
• {{Citation | last = Trudeau | first = Margaret | year = 2015 | title = The Time of Your Life: Choosing a Vibrant, Joyful Future | publisher = HarperCollins | isbn = 978-1-443-43183-5}}.

While still married to Pierre Trudeau, Margaret Trudeau had a brief acting career, appearing in two Canadian-produced films:

• The Guardian Angel, 1978
• Kings and Desperate Men, 1981

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