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Muriel Helena Duckworth (née Ball) was born in East Bolton, Quebec in 1908. She received a BA in French and economics from McGill University in 1929 and afterwards studied with her husband, Jack Duckworth, at Union Theological Seminary. In 1930, they returned to Montreal where their children John, Martin, and Eleanor were born. During their residence in Montreal, Muriel Duckworth was active in the C.G.I.T., the Student Christian Movement, and Notre Dame de Grace Community Centre. She also helped to acquire for Jewish teachers the right to teach in Protestant schools in Quebec. In 1947, the Duckworth family moved to Halifax, and Muriel joined the Adult Education Division of the Nova Scotia Department of Education as a part-time parent-advisor. Between 1962 and 1967 she worked as a program advisor to the department. From 1967, she dedicated her efforts to groups concerned with the role and rights of women in society, education, pacifism, world development and cooperation and social justice. She was a founding member of the Voice of Women (Halifax) and national president of the Voice of Women (Canada) from 1967 to 1971. She was also a founding member of the Canadian Conference on children, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, the Nova Scotia Festival of the Arts, and the Junior School of Community Arts. She has received six honourary doctorates, the Persons Award (1981), and the Order of Canada (1983).