Tag Archives: UBC

From the archives: Lucille Johnstone, “Tugboat Annie” (Herstory 2007)

Posted on May 7, 2014 by

Lucille Johnstone was born in 1924 in Vancouver. “Her grandparents advised her parents against sending her to high school, but she went anyway, working after school to pay for her books and clothes.”1 “I went to a high school that … Continue reading →

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From the archives: Connie Eaves (Herstory 2000)

Posted on January 30, 2014 by

Fascinated by “how thing work in the body,”(1) Connie Halperin of Kingston, Ontario, set out early on a career in biomedical research that has spanned more than three decades. Now Connie Eaves, deputy director of the Terry Fox Laboratory and … Continue reading →

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