Canadian Aviatrix Project

Constance Culver was born in 1919 in Simcoe, Ontario, to Ernest Leroy Culver (a farmer) and Ada Vanderburg. 1911 census 1921 census 1931 ce...

Marion Angelina Gillies was born on 8 August 1915 in Waterloo, Ontario, to Frederick Fenton Gillies and Erma Selena Andrews.   1921 census 1...

Margaret Frances Littlewood was born on 28 March 1916 in York, Ontario, to Stanley Harry Littlewood (hotel night clerk, then worked at Eaton’s depa...

Cora Ellen Stock was born on 22 February 1910 to George Burrill Stock (a farmer) and Annie Cyrilla Sheppard. 1911 census 1921 census 1931 c...

Mary Annie Spearing was born on 10 January 1914 in Simcoe, Ontario, to Walter Spearing (a farmer, then lumbermill foreman) and Mary Louisa Kitchen....

Doris was born around 1918 in Toronto, Ontario, to Albert Manewell (a window trimmer) and Myrtle Irene Chittenden. 1921 census 1931 census ...

Mildred Clements Yates (sometimes known as Wattie) was born around 1920 in Toronto to Arthur Yates (a confectioner) and Pansy Pirie.   1921 c...

The goal of the Canadian Aviatrix Project is to find out about the lives of the first 100 women to get their private pilot licenses in Canada. Of t...

Mary was born on 11 December 1915 in Timmins, Ontario, to Teodor Skrypnyk and Olena Sawdan. Her parents had moved to Canada from Ukraine when they ...

Joyce Regina Bond was born on 11 May 1912 in Regina, Saskatchewan, to David Franklin Bond (chief dispatcher for the Canadian Pacific Railway) and G...

Born Annie Pearl Howard around 1903 in Columbus, Georgia, to Wesley Howard and Cora Jenkins. In 1907, Cora got remarried to Henry Harwell Ivey (a b...

Tosca Luisa Trasolini was born on 26 June 1910 in Vancouver, BC to Luigi Trasolini (a building contractor) and Marie Raffella Raino (also known as ...