Background
The daughter of Naval Service of Canada admiral Charles Kingsmill, she was born in Ottawa, Ontario and raised and educated in Canada and England.
environmentalist journalist athlete
The daughter of Naval Service of Canada admiral Charles Kingsmill, she was born in Ottawa, Ontario and raised and educated in Canada and England.
She returned to Ottawa in 1940 after separating from Gordon-Lennox. She remarried to historian J. F. C. in 1944, in the Parliament Hill office of J. South. Woodsworth, and moved with to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Active in the Saskatchewan chapter of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the s became co-editors of Union Farmer, the newspaper of the Saskatchewan Farmers" Union, in 1950.
In the 1960s, she was active in Voice of Women, and leased the Kingsmill family summer home on Grindstone Island to the Society of Friends to serve as a Quaker retreat centre and an institution for peace studies.
She later served as editor of Environment Probe, and served on an advisory committee to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on its coverage of agriculture and farming issues.
She was later a member of the Canadian alpine skiing team at the 1936 Winter Olympics, and competed despite having suffered a broken hand.