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Military Leaders |
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Wendy Clay |
Raised on Canada's west coast she earned her medical degree
in 1967 through the Medical Officer training Plan of the Canadian Armed
Forces. Her military career is a long line of achievements. She was the
first female officer cadet in the Royal Canadian Navy and the first medical
officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. She was also the first Canadian woman
to receive her degree in aviation medicine. She was the first Canadian woman
to graduate from the military's basic pilot training in 1972 and the first
female to earn her military wings (non operational) in 1974. She retired
from her successful military career as Brigadier General in 1998. |
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Jean Flatt Davey |
Died
March 13, 1980.
She Graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Toronto in 1936.
She was the first Canadian woman doctor to enter the Canadian Armed Forces.
From 1941-1945 she served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as squadron leader
forming a unit that provided medical care. For her war time services she
was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1943. After the war she
became the first Canadian woman to receive the fellowship of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1959, while working at the Women’s
College Hospital, the hospital was accredited as on of the teaching
hospitals, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and she was the first
woman to be appointed to a department of medicine in a teaching hospital. In
1973 she retired and was awarded the order of Canada. |
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Margaret Craig Eaton Dunn |
née Eaton Born Toronto, Ontario 1913 (?) Died
June 6, 1988. She and her twin brother Jack were born into
the famous Eaton business family of
Toronto. In
1942 she joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps as a Captain. She would
serve in Italy and Northern Europe war fronts where she became Director
General of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in 1944. She was awarded the
Order of the
British Empire
for her wartime service. In 1946 she married Lt. Col. J. Hubert Dunn and
would become an active member of the Women’s Canadian Club in London,
England. |
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Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie. |
Born
Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario March 22, 1884. Died March 5, 1968. A
nurse who served in both world wars. She was a builder of the Victoria Order
of Nurses, helping it to become a nationwide organization and was its chief
superintendent from 1923-1947. She was granted leave from the VON to serve
as matron in chief in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp from 1941 till
1955. In 1941 she laid the foundations for the establishment of the Canadian
Women’s Army Corps. In 1944 she was the first woman to become a colonel in
the Canadian Army. |
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