Early Life
McIntosh (née Laughlin) was born in Montreal, Quebec, the child of a career military officer (RCAF), and was educated in Canada and Europe, attending eleven different schools during the course of her elementary and high school education. In 1960 she graduated from Royal George High School in Greenfield Park and moved to Manitoba (the province in which her parents were raised and to which they eventually retired) and began studies at St. John's College, University of Manitoba. McIntosh graduated with honours from the Manitoba Teachers' College, Tuxedo Campus, in 1963.
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