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CCF Maple Leaf Trainer II The Maple Leaf Trainer II was a Canadian biplane trainer designed by Elsie MacGill in 1938 and manufactured by the Canadian Car and Foundry. Although it was intended for use as a basic trainer for the Royal Canadian Air Force, it was rejected and the only two completed airframes were sold to Mexico.
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Elsie MacGill Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill, OC (March 27, 1905 – November 4, 1980), known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was the world's first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and was the first woman in Canada to receive a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She worked as an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft construction during her years at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario. After her work at CC&F she ran a successful consulting business. Between 1967–1970 she was a commissioner on the "Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada", published in 1970.
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Jane Herveu Jeanne Aline Herveux, generally known as Jane Herveu, (1885–1955) was a pioneering French aviator who obtained her pilot's licence on 7 December 1910.
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Kathleen Parlow Kathleen Parlow (September 20, 1890, Fort Calgary, Alberta — August 19, 1963, near Toronto, Ontario) was a child prodigy with her outstanding technique with a violin, which earned her the nickname "The lady of the golden bow". Although she left Canada at the age of four and did not permanently return until 1940, Parlow was sometimes billed as "The Canadian Violinist".
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E. Grahame Joy Major Ernst Grahame Joy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 November 1888 – 21 June 1993) was an American-born Canadian who became a flying ace during the First World War, credited with eight aerial victories. He had set aside his law studies and family obligations to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force, then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. While he left military service after World War I to practice law, he would return to the colours for World War II.
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Arlene Harris (inventor) Arlene Joy Harris (born June 6, 1948), also known as the "First Lady of Wireless," is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. Harris holds numerous issued wireless communications patents. In May, 2007 she won industry-wide acclaim as the first woman inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame.
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Edith Kent Edith Kent (24 November 1908 – 2011 or 2012) was an electrical welder from Plymouth, England during the Second World War. She is notable for being the first woman in Great Britain to be given equal pay.
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Viola R. MacMillan Violet Rita "Viola" MacMillan ("née" Huggard; 23 April 1903 – 26 August 1993) was a Canadian mineral prospector and mining financier. During her career, she was one of few women in the mining industry, was the first woman member and later president of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, and the first female inductee to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.
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Alexandrine Gibb Alexandrine Gibb, also known as Alex Gibb (born Toronto 1891 – 1958), was a pioneer in women’s sports during the twentieth century. She created and managed the first international women's team. Gibb advocated for women’s branches of sports across Canada and was involved in many women’s organizations including the Canadian Ladies’ Athletic Club which she inspired. She was a sports journalist for the Toronto Daily Star, where she wrote a daily column entitled “No Man’s Land of Sport” and worked for over thirty years.
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Beryl Markham Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck, 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a British-born Kenyan aviator (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. She wrote about her adventures in her memoir, "West with the Night".
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Anna Mae Hays Brigadier General Anna V. Mae McCabe Hays (born February 16, 1920) was the first woman in the U.S. Armed Forces to be promoted to a general officer rank.
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Mary Riter Hamilton Mary Riter Hamilton (1873–1954) was a Canadian artist. In 1919, she painted the battlefields of France and Belgium, recording the aftermath of World War I. She has been dubbed "Canada’s First Woman Artist", although this is chronologically false.
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Violet Cowden Violet "Vi" Cowden (October 1, 1916 – April 10, 2011) was an American aviator who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Cowden was one of the surviving members of the 1,074 WASPs, who were the first women to fly American military planes.
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Martha Piper Martha C. Piper, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} was the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia. She held the position from 1997 until 2006, and was the 11th person and the first woman to do so. Having been born in Lorain, Ohio, she is also the first person born outside Canada to have held the position. She is a Canadian citizen and she was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2002. Her contract with UBC stipulated a salary of $350,000 plus incentive payments of up to $50,000 per year upon meeting the performance goals set by the Board of Governors.
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Elizabeth Strohfus Elizabeth "Betty" Strohfus (November 19, 1919 – March 6, 2016) was an American aviator and pioneering member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Strohfus, one of just 1,074 female pilots to earn silver wings for the WASPs, flew noncombat missions from 1943 to 1944, often ferrying military planes throughout the United States. She also trained male air and infantry gunners at Las Vegas Army Airfield during the early 1940s. Elizabeth Strohfus was the recipient of two Congressional Gold Medals for her service in the WASPs and was inducted into the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame. She was believed to be one of the last surviving WASP aviators.
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Molly Bobak Molly Bobak {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (née Lamb; February 25, 1922 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada's war effort, and in particular, the work of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C), as one of Canada's war artists.
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Gisèle Côté-Harper Gisèle Côté-Harper, OC, QC (born 1942) is a Canadian lawyer and professor. She is the 1995 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work as a human rights activist. She is the first Francophone woman to receive such an honour.
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Dagny Berger Dagny Berger née Hansen (1903–1950) was Norway's first woman aviator. She was granted her certificate by the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom in September 1927.
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Flora MacDonald (politician) Flora Isabel MacDonald, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (June 3, 1926 – July 26, 2015) was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. Canada's first female foreign minister, she was also one of the first women to vie for leadership of a major Canadian political party, the Progressive Conservatives. She became a close ally of Prime Minister Joe Clark, serving in his cabinet from 1979 to 1980, as well as in the cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1984 to 1988. In her later life, she was known for her humanitarian work abroad.
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Jane Trefusis Forbes Air Chief Commandant Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, Lady Watson-Watt, DBE (21 March 1899 – 18 June 1971), known as Jane Trefusis Forbes, was a businesswoman and the first director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (1939–43).
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Arthur Bradfield Fairclough Arthur Bradfield Fairclough {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (25 July 1896 – 9 December 1968) was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 19 aerial victories.
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Teresa De Marzo Teresa De Marzo (1903–1986) was a pioneering Brazilian aviator. In 1922, she became the first woman in Brazil to be granted a pilot's license.