Canadian Aviatrix Project

Florence Edina Stewart Newlands was born on 6 February 1892 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to Henry William Newlands (a politician and lawyer, who...

Born Elspeth Mary Campbell MacLean on 19 April 1909 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to William Campbell MacLean (a Scottish grain dealer) and Mary ...

Grayce Sandra Margaret Hutchinson was born in January 1911 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Alexander Wallace Hutchinson (a barrister) and Elizabeth E...

Nellie Irene Carson was born on 12 November 1900 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, to James Carson (a rancher) and Sarah Ellen O’Dell. Nellie was the fourt...

Gladys was born on 16 March 1895 in Elgin, New Brunswick, to Wallace Graves (a farmer) and Minnie Webster. She had a younger brother, Ralph, born o...

Daphne Helen Paterson was born on 31 December 1905 in Saint John, New Brunswick to Alexander Pierce Paterson (accountant, advocate of the Maritime ...

Born Julia Clarissa MacBrien on 18 September 1909 in Port Perry, Ontario, to Major General James Howden MacBrien (Chief of General Staff of the Can...

Louise Josephine Charlotte Marie Burka was born in Cheshire, England, on 10 March 1909 to Franz Carl Clemens Burka (Austrian, age 34, West India Me...

Born on 27 August 1900 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Gordon Bell (professor at the University of Manitoba, Provincial Bacteriologist, and honoured with...

Born on 31 May 1906 in Mamaroneck, New York, to Chester Rhodes de la Vergne and Gladys Elise Block. Chester graduated from Yale University in 1905,...

Born Susan Eileen Magill on 18 April 1906, Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Robert Magill (an Irish college professor who emigrated to Canada in 1903) and ...

Born Mary Eileen Vene Riley on 2 August 1908, in Wiarton, Ontario, to James Henry Riley (a labourer) and Mary Baines. James and Mary were originall...