Canadian Aviatrix Project

Jessica De Brézé Jarvis was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 26 August 1911 to William Henry Pope Jarvis (a journalist and author of several novels) an...

Born on 6 January 1911 in Moncton, New Brunswick, to Thomas Alexander Rankine-Smith (x-ray technician and Exalted Ruler of the Ottawa Lodge of the ...

Addie Aletta Taman was born on 4 September 1905 in Huron, Ontario, to Joseph Elijah Taman (a teamster) and Eliza Jane Gibson. 1901 census 19...

Clara Margaret Hooker was born around 1912 in Saskatchewan to Richard Hooker and Margaret Halcrow. Richard was born in England, moved to Canada in ...

Elianne Marguerite Alice Roberge was born on 11 August 1909 in Prince Rupert, BC, to Amadee Roberge and Marie Josephine Gamache, known as Rosina. A...

Born Marion Doris Tope on 21 November 1911 in Minnesota to 19-year-old Myrtle Pearl Tope, a general work maid. Even though Marion was born illegiti...

Dorothy Ailsie Jean Coghlin was born on 19 December 1905 in Montreal, Quebec, to Bernard William Palin Coghlin (steel manufacturer, philanthropist ...

Florence Elizabeth Spencer was born on 16 March 1893 in North Dakota to Mark Spencer (a farmer) and Jeanette Eusetia Weir. Mark was born in England...

Edith Alexandra Samarow (known as Alex or Alexa) was born on 24 May 1900 in Montreal, Quebec, to Professor Otto Boris von Konigsberg de Samarow (a ...

Grace Ida Goulding (known as Tib) was born on 31 August 1903 in York, Ontario, to Alfred Graham Goulding (farmer, Secretary of the Weston, Etobicok...

Marjorie Jean Chauvin was born around 1909 in Edmonton, Alberta, to Ernest Edward Chauvin (founder of a real estate and insurance firm, and Secreta...

Alice Albina Genier (who preferred to be called Jeanne) was born on 9 October 1902 in Kamloops, British Columbia, to Gilbert Genier and Adeline St Amour (French-Canadian farmers). By 1928, Jeanne was living in Vancouver and met Walter Edwin Gilbert at the BC Mountaineering Club. He became one of Canada’s most famous bu