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Barbara McInnes, 1943-2021: "Barb's imprint is all over Ottawa"


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One of her two daughters, Leah McInnes-Eustace, announced McInnes’ death Friday morning, six months after a cancer diagnosis: “At 3:30 a.m. this morning, wrapped in the arms of her daughters, my mom, the incomparable Barb McInnes, took her final breath. Our world is forever changed by her presence in it.”
McInnes helped launch the Ottawa Community Foundation with her father in 1987, then took over its leadership four years later. Through force of personality and sheer determination, she built it into a $100-million charity one of the most important philanthropic organizations in the city by the time she retired in 2014. ....

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