Her students included Oliver Jones, Ken Skinner, Joe Sealy, Reg Wilson, and her brother, Oscar Peterson.

[3] She was also the mother of Canadian Olympic athlete and television journalist Sylvia Sweeney.

[4] Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre tweeted in August 2017 that he intends for the city to name a street after her.

[5] In 2018, Sweeney was honoured with a community mural on a building in Montreal's Little Burgundy neighbourhood.

[6] The artist, Kevin Ledo, also painted a mural of Leonard Cohen in the city's Plateau neighbourhood.