[2] During World War II, she served in the Women's Royal Naval Service as a radio mechanic.

[2] In 1969, she took a job with Potterton Productions, and in 1973 she was hired full-time by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

[2] She worked on 25 films altogether, including 18 as artist or animator, 10 as producer, 5 as writer, and 1 as director.

She served as the producer on the animated short George and Rosemary (1987), which was nominated for an Oscar, and on Just for Kids (1983), a series of adaptations of children's stories by Canadian writers.

[2] Other credits include writer on Ishu Patel's Paradise, which was nominated for an Oscar in 1985, and writer/producer on Robert Doucet's Dreams of a Land (1987), about Samuel de Champlain.