Nowosad, Patricia Susan "Pat"

Born at Vancouver, BC and deafened at age 2. Jericho Hill School for the Deaf for 3 years, then transferred to mainstreamed public schools in Ladner, BC until graduation. Joined the newly-formed British Columbia Deaf Mime Troup in 1975, which became the Canadian Theatre of the Deaf. The financial precariousness of the group forced her to seek other work with several corporations and with the E.C. Drury School for the Deaf. Died young at age 43.