Petrie, Jean Knox

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Petrie, Jean Knox

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Dr. Jean Knox (McDonald) Petrie, b.1913, was an active member of the Alpine Club of Canada, Edmonton section during the 1930s and 1940s, attending the ACC summer camps from 1937-1940, 1942 and 1946 as well as making many weekend climbs in the Jasper area with Captain E.R. Gibson. In 1938 she was one of the four women to make a first ascent of Mount Columbia by women, as well as Mount Forbes in 1940. Married in 1960 to Robert Petrie (d. 1966), Dr. Jean Petrie worked in Ottawa, Ontario (1940-1945) in munitions gauge testing for the National Research Council. Following the war, she worked as an astrophysicist for the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, B.C. (1945-1966) and taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. (1966-1971).

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Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library

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