Eileen Faith Avis (née Hutchison; 1924—2010) was a Canadian journalist, writer, naturalist and mother of three.
[8] A recent biographer of Walter Avis and Charles J. Lovell reasons that "Faith Avis may have played a more major role in Canadian English than first meets the eye,"[9] as, common in these days, she not only typed her husband's manuscripts but had the university contracts on account of her education that her husband lacked.
[9] Walter S. Avis, who, together with Lovell, is considered as a "founder"[3] of Canadian English as a linguistic subject.
Walter Avis "must have met Faith Hutchison [in 1945/46 in Ottawa], who was just about to graduate with her BA in journalism.
"[10] At present there are no reliable indicators to suggest that Faith Avis directly carried out research on Canadian English.