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Canadian Aviatrix #55 – Doris Manewell (born 1918)
Doris was born around 1918 in Toronto, Ontario, to Albert Manewell (a window trimmer) and Myrtle Irene Chittenden.
1921 census
Hamilton O...
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Canadian Aviatrix #54 – Mildred Yates (born 1920)
Mildred Clements Yates (sometimes known as Wattie) was born around 1920 in Toronto to Arthur Yates (a confectioner) and Pansy Pirie.
1921 c...
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Canadian Aviatrix #53 – Miss M E Holmes
On 14 January 1937, Miss Holmes passed her flying test and received her PPL, making her the 53rd female pilot in Canada.
Another pilot with an ast...
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Canadian Aviatrix #52 – Mary Skrypnyk (1915-2012)
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 ...
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Canadian Aviatrix #51 – Joyce Bond (1912-1999)
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...
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Canadian Aviatrix #50 – Mary Adams (1903-1949)
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...
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Canadian Aviatrix #49 – Tosca Trasolini (1910-1991)
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 ...
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Canadian Aviatrix #48 – Jean Pike (1916-2001)
Jean was born on 17 April 1916 in Chicago to Francis Robert Pike (an English carpenter) and Katherine (Kitty) Gott (an American nurse).
Francis an...
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Canadian Aviatrix #47 – Joan Bonisteel (1918-1972)
Joan Phyllis Christine Bonisteel was born on 19 August 1918 in London, England to Ernest Dickens Bonisteel (inventor of the Bonisteel monoplane) an...
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Canadian Aviatrix #46 – Rosie Campbell (born 1918)
Rosie was born around 1918 and lived in Rodney, Ontario, with her mother, Mabel.
She joined the London (Ontario) Flying Club and took her first fly...
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Canadian Aviatrix #45 – Lillian McNeil (born 1910)
Amy Lillian McNeill was born on 18 December 1910 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to John William McNeill (travelling salesman for a drug company) and Emma J...
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Canadian Aviatrix #44 – Alice Blake (1909-2002)
Alice E. Blake was born in September 1909 in Regina SK to George Davis Blake (a farmer) and Margaret Stark Alexander (originally from Scotland).
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