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where she not only became the first woman to fly in Canada but did so before the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.

But it was during this meet that tragedy occurred. On August 6, Johnny Bryant was making his second flight of the day over Vancouver when the plane's steering column broke. Alys watched helplessly as her husband groped vainly for the control wires and crashed to his death.

Alys gave up flying for several months, but in November she made several flights for movies in Seattle, and during 1914 she continued to do exhibition flying on the West Coast. In 1915 she went east to St. Louis to put her mechanical abilities to use with the Benoist Airplane Manufacturing Company. She moved with the company to Sandusky, Ohio, where she served as an instructor and did some test flying. In October 1916 she went to work as an instructor for the Scientific Aeroplane Company in Stratford, Connecticut.

Like many of her contemporary aviatrices, she made repeated applications for flying in combat during World War I, but to no avail. She went to work for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron helping build military dirigibles.

Helen Hodge was the first woman west of Chicago to receive