Editing Anne Cools (section)

==Personal life and education==
Cools was born and raised in [[Barbados]], as the daughter of pharmacist Lucius Unique Cools and Rosita Gordon Miller Cools, who owned a sugar plantation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Roy |first=Lynette |title=Three Canadian Women in Canadian Politics |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=0968409954 |location=Toronto}}</ref> Both her grandfather and an uncle were politically active on the island. When she was four years old, two of her siblings died. In Barbados, Cools attended Queen's College Girls School. In 1957, when she was 13 years old, her family immigrated to Canada, where she studied at Thomas D'Arcy McGee High School in Montreal. Cools received a B.A. degree in social sciences, sociology and psychology from [[McGill University]]. Cools is married to business consultant Rolf Calhoun. Her personal interests include classical music, playing the piano, reading, gardening and dogs.<ref name=SenatorCools-Biography>{{cite web|title=Senator Anne C. Cools Toronto - Ontario: Biography|url=http://senatorcools.sencanada.ca/Biography|website=Senator Cools|access-date=January 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084228/http://senatorcools.sencanada.ca/Biography|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Encyclopedia>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/cools-anne Cools, Anne], Contemporary Black Biography, Encyclopedia.com, 2019.</ref><ref name=TorontoDV>TorontoDV, [https://torontodv.com/?page_id=202 Biography of The Hon. Senator Anne Cools]</ref>

=== Early career ===
Early in her career, Cools worked as a student coordinator, responsible for supervising students and training them to be social workers. She was employed by the University of Toronto, in the Faculty of Social Work from 1978-1978; by the Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University) from 1978 to 1980. She worked at Seneca College from 1977 to 1989.<ref name=":0" />