This webpage will gradually include features on some of the 99s within the two Canadian Sections.  These write-ups are taken from COPA publications, news articles, etc.

Pioneer Pilots:  Author Shirley Allen

• Lorna deBlicquy

• Edith Denny

• Phyllis Penney-Gaul (1st woman pilot in Newfoundland)

• Elsie MacGill

• Felicity McKendry

• Hilda Mickle

• Vi Milstead

• Marion Orr

• Daphne Paterson

• Dorothy Rungeling

• Eileen Vollick (first Canadian woman pilot)

First Canadian women pilots by province:

• Eileen Vollick (March 13, 1928, PPL# 77)): Ontario

• Eileen Magill (Oct. 24, 1928, PPL# 142) Manitoba

• Gertrude de la Vergne (Dec. 4, 1928, PPL# 157) Alberta

• Daphne Paterson (Aug. 15, 1929, PPL# 327), New Brunswick

• Nellie Carson (Oct. 12, 1929, PPL # 384), Saskatchewan

• Jeanne Genier Gilbert (Nov. 10, 1929, PPL # 479)

• Peggy (Ethel) Standring (1931), NS

• Louise Jenkins (Mar. 8, 1932, PPL # 973), PEI

• PQ: Elspeth Russell (Part of Air Transport Auxiliary in England)

• Gertrude Dugal (Mar 11, 1947 PPL # 5666), 1st francophone Que.

• Phyllis Penney-Gaul (1947), Newfoundland

Other Canadian woman "Firsts" in accomplishments: (Partial list)

• First trained on ski plane: Eileen Vollick

• First to parachute into water: Eileen Vollick

• First commercial pilot: Daphne Paterson

• First APL: Daphne Paterson (1938)

• First Director of a flying club: Eileen Magill (1929)

• First demonstration pilot: Marjorie Chauvin Herity (Alberta)

• First military jet pilots: Deanna Brasseur & Jane 

• First Transport Canada inspector: Lorna deBlicquy

• First female pilot hired by Canadian airlines: Rosella Bjornson (1973), then becoming Canadian's first female captain in 1990 (Boeing 737). Inducted into Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame.

• First women to own and operate a flying Club (Marion Orr)

• First woman licenced to fly a Helicopter (Marion Orr)

East Canada Section Executive:

•  Margo McCutcheon (Governor)

•  Anne Starret (Vice-Governor)

•  Jill Dermott (Treasurer)

•  Jocelyn Lecluse (Secretary)
   

• List of East Canada Section Governors 

International 99s Committees:

Other Profiles:

• Shirley Allen (99s Historian)

• Margaret Carson (co-founder of COPA)

• Marilyn Dickson (Past Governor, East Canada Section)

• Adele Fogle, Daphne Schiff, Margaret Ringenberg and Margo McCutcheon ("Around the World" air race article contains profiles of each of these women)

• Felicity McKendry (Air racer; CFI, RFC; DFTE)

• Vi Milstead (Canada's first woman bush pilot)

• Isabel Peppler (publisher "From the Ground Up")

• Suzanne Pettigrew (Air Canada)

• Rolie Pierce (charter member of Flying Seven)