Adelaide Sinclair
Adelaide Helen Grant Sinclair (born January 16, 1900 in Ontario , † November 20, 1982 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian civil servant and commander . From 1951 to 1952 she was Vice Chair of the UNICEF Executive Board .
Life
Adelaide Sinclair was born in Toronto , Ontario in 1900 . There she attended Havergal College, where she made her bachelor's degree in economics in 1922 and Master of Arts in 1925 . After completing her studies, she worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1926 to 1929 and at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1929 . In 1930 she married her husband, Donald Black Sinclair, a lawyer who died in 1938. During World War II she was a commandant of the Canadian Wrens , the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service . From 1951 to 1952 she was the second chairman of the UNICEF Executive Board and from 1957 to 1967 deputy chairman of the UNICEF. In 1967 she received the Officer of the Order of Canada award, the highest honor given to a Canadian civilian. Sinclair died in Ottawa in 1982 at the age of 82.
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Sinclair, Adelaide |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sinclair, Adelaide Helen Grant |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian officer and commanding officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1982 |
| Place of death | Ottawa |