Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 10, 2002
• Invested on: May 09, 2003

A committed volunteer and social activist, she has led a life of "firsts." She was a founding member of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. She became an executive member and served on the steering committee for the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Among numerous other endeavours, she was also a governor and the first woman executive member of Frontier College, as well as one of the first two women benchers for the Law Society of Upper Canada. During her long involvement with IODE, she initiated projects for the care of premature babies and hearing-impaired children in the Yukon and Northwest Territories.