Margo Timmins was born and spent most of her childhood in Montreal as one of six children of Barbara and John Timmins. She describes her mother Barbara as "a very honest person, and very confident in who she was and her emotions and her place in the world. And I think if she gave anything, that's what she gave us: the sense that you do what you do, and not to worry about it too much. A confidence. Not a confidence that we're necessarily right, but even if we're wrong, well, too bad".
Her father, John Timmins, spent his professional life working in the sales and marketing divisions of several aviation companies. His passion in life, however, was music and his love of song was passed on to his children, especially his son Michael (Margo's brother) who would eventually form the band Cowboy Junkies.
As a young girl, she remembered going through her brother Michael's extensive record collection. Some of her early favourites that influence her to this day include: Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Blonde on Blonde (1966), and Nashville Skyline (1969), by Bob Dylan, Nebraska (1982) by Bruce Springsteen, Harvest (1972) by Neil Young, and Townes Van Zandt's, Flyin' Shoes (1978).

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