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Geills Turner
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Geills McCrae Kilgour
December 23, 1937 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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| Known for | Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada |
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| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | David Kilgour (brother) John McCrae (great-uncle) |
Geills "Jill" McCrae Turner was born on December 23, 1937. She is a Canadian businesswoman. She was married to John Turner, who was the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.
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Early Life and Education
Geills Turner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the oldest of three children. Her great-uncle was John McCrae, who wrote the famous poem In Flanders Fields. Her brother, David Kilgour, was a long-time Member of Parliament for Alberta.
Geills grew up in a family where her father, David Kilgour Sr., was a chief executive officer. She was very good at science and math. She earned a degree in math and physics from McGill University. Later, she studied business at Harvard Business School. After finishing her studies, she moved to Montreal to work for IBM.
Meeting John Turner and Family Life
Geills met John Turner when she helped with his first election campaign in 1962. She even used computers to help his campaign, which was quite new at the time. They got married in 1963.
Together, they had four children: Elizabeth (born 1964), Michael (born 1965), David (1968–2021), and James Andrew (born 1972).
Life as a Prime Minister's Spouse
Her husband, John Turner, served as the Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984.
Geills Turner preferred to keep her personal life private. She did not want to be in the public eye too much. She also did not like how the media sometimes wrote about her. Because of this, she tried to stay out of the spotlight.
Later Years and Interests
After her family moved back to Toronto, Geills Turner decided to study photography. She enrolled in a four-year program at Ryerson University.
In 2001, she was involved in a car incident where she said she was trying to save her dog.
In 2008, Geills Turner was involved in a discussion about some of her great-uncle John McCrae's wartime medals. These medals had been given to the McCrae House museum. She wanted to have the medals herself. In 2012, an agreement was reached, and the medals stayed with the museum.
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