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Alice Mailhot Ross: Canada’s first female architect?
Women with ties to Edmonton were among the first in Canada to break into the male-dominated profession of architecture. Marjorie Hill, the first Canadian woman to register as an architect, grew up here; Jean Wallbridge & Mary Imrie, Canada’s first all-woman architectural partnership, ran their home office here; Freda O’Connor, the first female president of a Canadian architectural council, settled here; Alice [Mailhot] Ross, the first Canadian woman to graduate in architecture, launched Ross Home Plans here. Alice predated all the others, yet her accomplishments—and her challenges—remain largely unknown.
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