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Canadian Aviatrix #77 – Vera Harris (1917-2002)
Vera Eileen Harris was born around 1917 in Calgary, Alberta, to George Harris (businessman) and Mary Hunter.
1916 census
1921 census
Ca...
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Canadian Aviatrix #76 – Helen Cowan (1905-1981)
Helen Julia Cowan was born on 12 February 1905 in Brantford, Ontario, to Thomas Albert Cowan (owner of a plumbing and heating business) and Birdie ...
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Canadian Aviatrix #75 – Gladys Smirle (1910-1972)
Gladys Marjory Smirle was born around 1910 in New York to George McMillan Smirle (telegraph operator) and Lauda Clare Sparham.
1905 census
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Canadian Aviatrix #74 – Marion Powell (1918-1995)
Marion Alice Powell was born on 25 June 1918 in Toronto, Ontario, to John Thomas Powell (a carpet cleaner) and Lillian Taylor. Marion was the young...
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Canadian Aviatrix #73 – Violet Milstead (1919-2014)
Violet Beatrice Milstead was born on 17 October 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, to Harold Edward Milstead and Edith Martha Cox
1921 census
1931 ...
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Canadian Aviatrix #72 – Flo Elliott (1917-2012)
Florence Esther Elliot was born on 13 January 1917 to William Edmund Elliott (a newspaper reporter and editor) and Henrietta Pearl Shafer.
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Canadian Aviatrix #71 – Evelyn Fletcher (born 1916)
Evelyn Mary Fletcher was born around 1916 to Cyrus Mehring Fletcher (a dentist) and Florence Fall.
1916 census
1921 census
1926 census
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Canadian Aviatrix #70 – Edith Treau de Coeli (1906-1996)
Mary Ruby Edith Treau De Coeli was born on 4 October 1906 to Edmond Treau De Coeli (mountaineer and land surveyor) and Elizabeth Rainboth.
Edmond w...
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Canadian Aviatrix #69 – Ethel Higdon (1913-2018)
Ethel Higdon was born on 26 June 1913 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, to Americus Alexander "Mack" Higdon (an American rancher) and Martha Elmira "Mattie...
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Canadian Aviatrix #68 – Muriel Munn (1909-1961)
Muriel Harriet Munn was born on 9 July 1909 to John Herman Munn (laundry owner) and Emma Alvina Piton.
1911 census
1921 census
Ottawa O...
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Canadian Aviatrix #65 – Joyce Reid (1922-2007)
Joyce Amy Reid was born on 6 June 1922 in Beamsville, Ontario.
Joyce started flying when she was 16, but had to wait to take her test due to transp...
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Canadian Aviatrix #64 – Iva Coutts (1915-1993)
Iva Jean Coutts was born on 16 February 1915 in Newdale, Manitoba, to John Albert Coutts (a farmer) and Jeanie MacDonald.
1911 census
1921 c...
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