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==Personal life== Barbara Frum was born Barbara Rosberg in [[Niagara Falls, New York]], the eldest of three children of Harold Rosberg and Florence Hirschowitz Rosberg. Her family is Jewish. Frum's father, who was born in [[Kielce]], Poland, immigrated to Canada as a child with his parents in 1913, and was the proprietor of Rosberg's Department Store in [[Niagara Falls, Ontario]]. Frum's mother was born in New York City, and moved to Canada in 1935, the year she got married. Frum grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Attending Stamford Collegiate high school, where she was a classmate of [[Bob McAdorey]], Barbara served on the student council. She was also a member of Theta Kappa Sigma, Alpha chapter, her high school sorority. She studied history at the [[University of Toronto]], where she graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in 1959. In 1957, she married Toronto dentist [[Murray Frum]], who later became a real-estate developer.<ref name="jwa.org" /> They had two children and adopted a third, an Indigenous child, Matthew.<ref name="fact.on.ca">{{cite web | url=http://www.fact.on.ca/newpaper/gm990223.htm | title=The battle over native adoption| work=[[The Globe and Mail]] | date=February 23, 1999 | access-date=September 29, 2011 | author=Philip, Margaret}}</ref> Her daughter, [[Linda Frum]], was a Canadian senator and a member of the [[Canada-Israel Committee]], and her son, [[David Frum]] became a political journalist and, after he moved to the United States, was a speechwriter for [[George W. Bush]].<ref name="jwa.org" />
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