Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 29, 1986
• Invested on: April 29, 1987

During her 26-year career in health services in Canada's North, she delivered babies in teepees, nursing stations and aeroplanes, nursed Inuit patients in snow houses and dog-sledded across miles of ice to immunize children in the remote communities of Labrador and the Northwest Territories.