[1] She was the first Canadian student ever to be accepted at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1912.
[2] In 1938, she helped found an amateur theater group called the Village Players which performed Shakespeare plays in high schools of Ontario.
In 1947, the company presented its first Canadian play, Lister Sinclair's The Man in the Blue Moon.
As well she helped to bring Tyrone Guthrie, the Tony Award-winning British theatrical director, to Canada.
[4] As a recipient of the Order of Canada she received the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.