ELEANOR COLLINS DIED AT THE CHURCH AND WAS BURIED ALONG WITH HER NAME
Canadian jazz pioneer Eleanor Collins was known as “Canada’s First Lady of Jazz” for her trailblazing career. She worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, became the first woman and person of colour to host a national TV programme in 1955, and never lost her dignity in the face of racism. In her final decade she was honoured with the Order of Canada and a commemorative stamp. She was 104 and picked by Stars On Ice.
Eleanor Collins
21 November 1919 – 3 March 2024, aged 104
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