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3 unusual facts about Betty Lowman Carey


Betty Lowman Carey

While a lost Amelia Earhart garnered international coverage during the same weeks, the “co-ed canoeist” generated significant media attention along the British Columbia coast.

She celebrated her 23rd birthday in Butedale on the east side of Princess Royal Island during her trip.

Pacific Northwest canoes

n 1937 Betty Lowman Carey (born July 31, 1914) became the first woman to singlehandedly row the Inside Passage of British Columbia in a dugout canoe.



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