Victoria’s Maternal Heritage

Victoria’s mother nicknamed’Mars’ McCormick or MM grew up in the Creighton Mine atop of the world deepest mine that is now the 6,800 ft in depth SNOlab in Sudbury, Ontario. Few kids lived in the INCO mining owned industrial town that saved the Allied Forces in WWII.

Mars was both extraordinarily intelligent and a competitive athlete through her lifetime. An stunning beauty she was also named Homecoming Queen for the region featured in the press as being ‘5 foot 2, eyes of blue’.

In that mine she became of the world’s first computer programmers in the 1960s, and worked on the Jarvis System at its founding. She would later become the Jarvis System’s main framer in Toronto in the 1980s.

Mars’ sister Emily Lily (McCormick) Turner was equally gifted, working with the computer, attaining USA Top Secret clearance and working as a Computer Engineer in the 1950s to 1990s. A legend among peers, she was the first woman to win the ‘Man of the Year’ award with Aerospace (GE), worked on nuclear submarines, and NASA’s Apollo space missions.

Their mother also Emily Lily, was possibly the first woman to become a member of the Prospector’s Association in her home and mining town of Flin Flon.

‘Mars’ had planned for Victoria’s birth to be on Victoria Day, with an appointment for her to be induced at the Hopsital. The nearby Victoria Mine had been the world’s deepest mine through both World Wars, Victoria or Nike also being the Goddess of Victory in War and Competition. Now a retired avid gardener, she Captained her own boat, competing in races, and sailing from North America to the Caribbean.

‘Mars’, Victoria, and Robert.