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Canadian Aviatrix #37 – Alma Gaudreau (1895-1994)
Alma was born on 28 March 1895 in St Mathieu, Quebec, to Pascal Gaudreau (a farmer) and Aglaé Boucher. She was one of 13 children.
1881 census...
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Canadian Aviatrix #35 – Effie Grevelink (1889-1980)
Ida Effie Grevelink was born on 16 January 1889 in India to George Grevelink (a captain in the Indian army) and Ida Marie O'Brien. By 1914, the fam...
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Canadian Aviatrix #36 – Isobel Whitaker (1910-1976)
Isobel was born on 30 September 1910 in Vancouver, BC, to Herbert Whitaker and Mae Johnstone Cassady.
Mae was from New Brunswick and had previously...
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Canadian Aviatrix #34 – Florence Lundon (1905-1965)
Florence was born in October 1905 in New Brunswick to William Edmund Lundon (a merchant) and Rhoda Amelia Trafton.
1891 census
1911 census
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Canadian Aviatrix #33 – Edith Freeman (1914- 2006)
Edith’s early life hasn’t been sourced yet, but it looks like she was born around 1914 in Russia to David and Anna Freeman. The family may not have...
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Canadian Aviatrix #32 – Isobel Secord (1902-1993)
Isobel was born on 18 December 1902 in Alberta to Richard Henry Secord and Anna Ada York.
Richard was a teacher, who became a merchant, financial ...
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Canadian Aviatrix #31 – Margaret Fane (1914-2004)
Margaret was born on 13 April 1914 in Edmonton, Alberta, to Morgan William Edward Fane and Edith Dorcas Fuller. Her parents were both originally fr...
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Canadian Aviatrix #30 – Margaret de Nure Caldwell (1909-2003)
Born on 27 November 1909 in Barrie, Ontario, to Samuel Grenville Caldwell (former hockey player and referee, commercial traveller for Blue Ribbon, ...
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Canadian Aviatrix #29 – Wanda Brodowich (1907-1986)
Born Stanisława Vanda Brodowicz around 1907 in Jarosław, Galicia, Austria (now in Poland). Her mother, Marja Woznjark, had Wanda when she was 20 ye...
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Canadian Aviatrix #28 – Louise Mitchell (1890-1986)
Elizabeth Louise MacLeod Mitchell was born 3 October 1890 in Pittsburgh to Kier Mitchell (an attorney) and Margaret Magee (the daughter of a judge)...
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Canadian Aviatrix #27 – Betsy Flaherty (1881-1968)
Born Elizabeth McAleer on 10 June 1881 in Grey, Ontario, to James Brown McAleer (a farmer) and Mary Jane Wilson.
1891 census
Grey ON
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Canadian Aviatrix #26 – Enid Norquay (1912-2006)
Enid Marjorie Isobel Norquay was born on 22 November 1912 in Edmonton, Alberta, to Alexander Norquay and Julia Alberta McCauley. Her father was a m...
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