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Diana Kilmury was born in Montreal and moved to Vancouver in 1954 when she was about eight years old. She married and dropped out of school when she was 16. By the time she was 19, she was divorced and needed work to support her children. She started working as a driver for a small trucking company. Within a few years she enrolled in Malaspina College and became the first woman in British Columbia to receive a heavy equipment operator certificate. Upon graduating she was hired by a union…