• Deceased
• New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada

Order of Canada

• Officer of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: December 17, 1979
  • Invested on: April 16, 1980

  Humanitarian, of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, who has devoted most of her life to the underprivileged regardless of race, colour, creed or sex, and particularly her own people of the Black community. (This is a promotion within the Order).

• Member of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: December 18, 1974
  • Invested on: April 16, 1975

  On behalf of the Negro community in Nova Scotia, in recognition of her zealous work as writer and broadcaster.