Canadian Aviatrix Project

In Shirley Render's wonderful book 'No Place for a Lady: The Story of Canadian Women Pilots 1928-1992', she investigates the lives and careers of the female pioneers in Canadian aviation. She even includes a helpful appendix, listing the first 100 women to get their private pilot licences. I've decided to try filling out the list a bit more!

Mary Louise was born on 17 October 1922 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Judge James Ignatius Morkin (president of the Canadian Amateur Athletic Associati...

Ottilie Marion Leach (known as Mollie) was born on 13 October 1917 in Toronto, Ontario, to Major John Owen Leach and Ottilie Schreiber. John was “o...

Gloria Kathleen Large was born on 24 January 1924 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to Heber Rowan Large and Kathleen Isabel Beales. Heber wa...

Marion Beulah Heffer was born on 31 December 1917 to Harry Lockhart Heffer (a machinist) and Stella May Gould. Stella lied about her age when they ...

Mamie Margaret Kerton (who changed her name to Saundria then settled on Sally) was born on 13 September 1914 in Toronto, Ontario, to Charles Napier...

Laura Louise Treble was born on 1 December 1918 in Ontario to Charles Edward Treble (a doctor) and Violet Marion Paterson. 1911 census 1921 ...

Patricia Gray was born around 1922 to Nathaniel Gray (postmaster of Saanichton) and Ann Nattress Meldrum.   1921 census 1931 census   ...

Margaret Elspeth Russell was born on 14 September 1922 in Montreal, Quebec, to William Russell (lumber merchant, vice-president of James Richardson...

Lillian Rashaw was born around 1921. She joined the Sudbury Flying Club and by 1940 was working as their secretary. On 7 April 1941, Lillian passed...

Mabel Catherine Maxwell was born on 18 November 1911 in Detroit, Michigan, to William Alexander Maxwell (engineer then farmer) and Emily Ethel Core...

Margaret was born on 15 October 1917 in Ottawa, Ontario, to Hugh Little Carson (owner of the Carson luggage company) and Edith Mary Beecham Wood. ...