Dawn Bartsch Connelly, nee Dawson
	
Dawn Dawson grew up in Osoyoos, British Columbia. She took flying lessons in Vancouver when she was 18 and received her pilot’s license in 1950, rated for flying with instruments. She was a flight instructor at the Calgary Flying Club in 1952 and ran the Pacific Western Airlines Flying School. She faced many prejudices against women pilots in her career but persevered to become the first woman pilot to fly a scheduled passenger flight in Canada. In 1958, Dawn and her husband Gordon Bartsch formed Connelly-Dawson Airways Ltd. For ten years Gordon and Dawn flew the Big Dipper Route from Whitehorse to Dawson and Inuvik. They served remote communities and oil rigs and mines near the Arctic Circle. Gordon and Dawn parted ways, and Dawn married Ron Connelly in 1962.((Gordon L. Bartsch, //Lady on a Pedestal.// EPIX Design Incorporated, 2013.))