Ann Davison Ann Davison Ann Davison (1914 – 1992) was, at the age of 39, the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean. She departed Plymouth, England in her 23-foot boat "Felicity Ann" on 18 May 1952. She landed in Brittany, Portugal, Morocco and the Canary Islands, before setting sail across the Atlantic on 20 November 1952, aiming to make land-fall in Antigua. In the event storms pushed her south and having been driven past Barbados she eventually touched land in Dominica on 23 January 1953. After an extended stopover in the Caribbean she sailed north to Florida and finally to
Betty Davison working as a secretary at the Department of External Affairs. In 1952 she married the architect Arthur Davison, a fellow actor at the Ottawa Little Theatre. In the 1960s, Davison took art classes at Carleton University and the Ottawa Municipal Art Centre, and credited Alma Duncan with encouraging her to return to her artistic career. Further studies in printmaking with Hilde Schreier during the 1970s led Davison to experiment with the creation of cast paper reliefs, and it is in this medium that she found success. Her 1974 print "Paper Roses" received a $1,000 award from the Ontario Arts Council.