Born in Ardath, Sask. in 1915, Margaret Brooke completed a bachelor's degree in home economics in 1935 before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Navy, serving in many locations across the country. After the war, she returned to campus to complete a BA and PhD in paleontology.
Brooke, who turned 100 last April, was honoured by the Government of Canada when they named a new Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship after her gallantry in combat during the Second World War. The naming recognizes Brooke's heroic efforts to save a nursing-sister colleague after the torpedoing of the Newfoundland Ferry SS Caribou on October 14, 1942, in the Cabot Strait off Newfoundland. For this, Brooke was also named a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
Read more at The Globe and Mail.
Brooke, who turned 100 last April, was honoured by the Government of Canada when they named a new Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship after her gallantry in combat during the Second World War. The naming recognizes Brooke's heroic efforts to save a nursing-sister colleague after the torpedoing of the Newfoundland Ferry SS Caribou on October 14, 1942, in the Cabot Strait off Newfoundland. For this, Brooke was also named a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
Read more at The Globe and Mail.