Dr. Sylvia Ostry, a 44-year-old Jewish mother of two, has been named Canada’s top statistician. In announcing her appointment yesterday as Dominion Statistician, Premier Pierre Elliot Trudeau noted that Mrs. Ostry is the first Canadian woman named to head an agency on the deputy ministerial level. Mrs. Ostry, a native of Winnipeg, holds a doctorate in economics from Cambridge University and is one of Canada’s leading researchers in the fields of labor and employment.
Prior to her appointment she served as a director of the Economic Council of Canada, the highest post ever held by a woman in any Canadian government body. Mrs. Ostry’s husband, Bernard, is a historian and assistant deputy minister for citizenship in the Department of the Secretary of State. The Ostrys live in Ottawa with their two sons and are founders of the Modern Jewish School here, a secular institution.
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