[2] She closed the office in 1963 due to the lack of available funding to scale the business to acquire larger projects, and started teaching secondary school home economics.
[2] Grafton joined Public Works Canada in 1967 and in the following decade was responsible for designing residential schools for the Canadian government most notably for Attawapiskat and Kashechewan in Northern Ontario.
[2] Grafton indicated that the work with the government was "particularly interesting and demanding, and it required a lot of flexibility, energy and imagination".
[2] She was pivotal in the overall design the Attawapiskat school and overcoming the technical challenges of constructing the building posed by the location's soil structure, weather and temperature.
[4] During the 1980s and 1990s, Grafton actively participated in "For the Record", a project organized by the Ontario Women Graduates and funded by the Ontario Heritage Foundation,[5] which sought to document women architects graduating from the University of Toronto architectural program between the 1920s and 1960s.