Biography
At 21, she joined the Merchant Marine School in Saint John, New Brunswick. On April 19, 1939, she graduated and received her Master Mariner's papers from the Merchant Marine Institution in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Her father turned the title to the scow over to her and she commanded it for five years, working mainly the pulp and paper trade in the Bay of Fundy.
Named Features
The Canadian Coast Guard vess Captain Molly Kool is named for her.
Anecdotes
She was the first Canadian woman to be qualified as a Master Mariner (deep sea).
