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Rushworth, Rita
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Rita Rushworth, ca. 1908- , was born in England, and in 1912 came with her mother to Calgary, Alberta where her father was working for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). She and her father, Richard, were members of the Calgary section of the Alpine Club of Canada. One of the trips Rita took with the club was in the Fryatt Valley in Jasper National Park in August 1936. Rita married Herbert Finn Dickson, ?-1971, and they had three children, Peggy (Whitley), Betty (McNamee) and William. They retired to Victoria in 1971.