Eileen Vollick 1908-1968
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Canada's first licensed woman pilot, Eileen Vollick was born in Wiarton and came to Hamilton about 1911. She was fascinated by aviation and in 1927 enrolled in the flying school established near her home on Hamilton Bay by Jack V. Elliot, a Hamilton businessman and pioneer in Canadian commercial aviation. The spirited Eileen Vollick devoted her spare time to flying and soon mastered the school's Curtiss JN-4 training aircraft. On March 13, 1928, she passed the federal aviation test and nine days later she was issued a private pilot's certificate. This significant achievement opened Canadian aviation to women and many became licensed pilots, and participants in various airshows and special flights throughout Canada. From 1929 Eileen Vollick lived in New York where she died.
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The City of Hamilton
In front of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
on Airport Road beside the airport
N 43 09.534 W 79 55.568
Recorded June 2004. Check current access before visiting.
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May 5, 2010
eileen vollick seems to be a great woman in my eyes because she waqs the first canadian woman to fly a plane and it's pretty awesome to hear about that lolzz!! o.o... e.e and I'm doing a flier project on her right now and it's 11:34 am at st joes in dryden ontario!!
February 16, 2010
I love eileen I am doing a project about her
November 8, 2008
On August the 2nd 2008, to commemorate her 100th birthday, an Ontario Heritage tribute marker was also erected at the Wiarton-Keppel International Airport in the Eileen Vollick Parkette and a sign was placed at the passenger terminal building which is now known as the "Eileen Vollick Terminal" KarlJ. 2008
August 2, 2008
It was quite interesting to find some extensive information on this lady. I served in the Air Force with her son, Eugene (Gene) in 1956-57 and remember him telling me about his mother. I believe he also had a pilots licence. Jim Anderson