Lois Smith, Canadian dancer (National Ballet of Canada) died she was , 81.

Lois Irene Smith  was a Canadian ballet dancer and dance teacher died she was , 81..

(8 October 1929 — 22 January 2011)

Smith was born in Vancouver in 1929. She began her dance training at the British Columbia School of Ballet, and later studied with Rosemary Deveson and Mara McBirney in Vancouver. She married fellow dancer David Adams (1928–2007) in 1950.
In 1951, she joined the National Ballet of Canada as the company's initial prima ballerina. Following an injury, she left the National Ballet to form her own dance school in 1969.^[1]
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada on June 23, 1980 and invested in October 1980.^[2]
A widow since 2007, Lois Smith died at Sechelt, British Columbia in 2011, aged 81, following a lengthy illness.[
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