Canadian Women in the Sky (eBook)

100 Years of Flight

Elizabeth Gillan Muir (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
176 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3189-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Canadian Women in the Skytraces a century of Canadian women’s progress in aviation and space flight. From the first woman to climb on aboard a flying machine as a passenger to a female astronaut’s second visit to the International Space Station, these women cracked the sky-blue glass ceiling to achieve their dreams.

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How a few women fought to board planes, then fly them, and finally to break through earth's atmosphere into space.The story of how women in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, struggled to win a place in the world of air travel, first as passengers, then as flight attendants and pilots, and, finally, as astronauts. Anecdotes, sometimes humourous and always amazing, trace these women's challenges and successes, their slow march over 100 years from scandal to acceptance, whether in Second World War skies, in hostile northern bush country, and even beyond Earth's atmosphere.From the time the first woman climbed on board a flying machine as a passenger to the moment a Canadian woman astronaut visited the International Space Station, this is an account of how the sky-blue glass ceiling eventually cracked, allowing passionate and determined "e;air-crazy"e; women the opportunity to fly.

Autor

Elizabeth Gillan Muir has taught Canadian history at University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto. She has written extensively about women in Upper Canada and recently published a history of Riverdale, Toronto. Elizabeth holds degrees from Queen’s University, the Harvard Business School, and a PhD from McGill University. She lives in Toronto.

Inhalt

Contents 


Foreword by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Before There Were Planes

1Up, Up in a Basket 

 The Early Years

2Daredevil Female Passengers


3The Flying Schoolgirl: Katherine Stinson 


4It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Madge Graham 


5The American Influence 

Dreams Can Come True 

6Early Pioneers 


7Barbara Ann Scott: Queen of the Blades (1928–2012)
8In the Captain’s Seat: Rosella Bjornson Pratt 

During the Second World War 

9Angels in the Clouds: Early Stewardesses 



10Margaret Fane Rutledge and the Flying Seven 


11Queen of the Hurricanes: Elsie MacGill 


12Flying Blind: The ATA 

New Opportunities 

13Into the Woods: Bush Pilots 



14Around the World: Daphne Schiff and Friends 


15Spies in the Skies: Operation Skywatch 


16Airplane Gymnastics: The Snowbirds 


17Over the Rainbow: Female Astronauts 

Afterword 
AppendixMilestones in Aviation 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2015
• Zusatzinfo: notes
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Air Canada • airplane passengers • Airports • Air Transport Authority • Amelia Earhart • Astronauts • ATA • aviation • bush pilots • Canada • challenges • early pilots • Elsie MacGill • Flight • flying schools • Glass Ceiling • Helicopters • History • Julie Payette • Non-fiction • Operation Skywatch • Roberta Bondar • Snowbirds • Stewardess • successes • the Flying Seven • the Wright Brothers • Women • women pilots • World War II • WWII
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3189-1 / 1459731891
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3189-9 / 9781459731899