Lorna deBlicquy

Born on 30 November 1931 in Blyth near Goderich, Ontario, Lorna Vivian Morcombe was the daughter of Vivian Morcombe, a bank manager, and Nora Eileen Bray. She was the youngest of the family's four children. When she was 14, she moved with her family to Ottawa, where she learned to fly in a Piper J-3 Cub at the Atlas Aviation Flying School, obtaining her private pilot licence when she was 16. In parallel, she joined the Ottawa Parachute Club. Not only was she their youngest member but, when 16, she was the first woman to make a parachute jump. ==Career==

In the 1940s, deBlicquy had multiple jobs to pay for her flight lessons which included working at a movie theater and for the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1952, while studying at Ottawa's Carleton University she qualified for a commercial license and took work at Spartan Air Services as a navigation clerk. Following her complaints, Transport Canada policy was changed and she was taken on in 1977 as the first female civil aviation inspector in Canada. Lorna deBlicquy retired in 1999 and settled near Carp, Ontario. She had flown for over 50 years, totalling 10,478 hours in the air, about half of them as a flight instructor. ==Awards and honours==

In 1994, deBlicquy was awarded the Order of Ontario. The following year, she was given the Order of Canada in 1995. ==Personal life and death==

Lorna and Dick deBlicquy were divorced in 1995. The couple had a daughter, Elaine, born 1966. ==References==