Cape Breton woman who became Canada’s first female Red Seal ironworker now guiding women into the trades

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Source: https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/business/cape-breton-woman-who-became-canadas-first-female-red-seal-ironworker-now-guiding-women-into-the-trades-100607926/

David Jala

Maggie (Horne) Budden, seen here working at the Marine Atlantic Ferry terminal in North Sydney, was the first Canadian woman to become a Red Seal ironworker. She’s now employed as project co-ordinator for the Office to Advance Women Apprentices in Sydney. CONTRIBUTED
Maggie (Horne) Budden, seen here working at the Marine Atlantic Ferry terminal in North Sydney, was the first Canadian woman to become a Red Seal ironworker. She’s now employed as project co-ordinator for the Office to Advance Women Apprentices in Sydney. CONTRIBUTED – David Jala

SYDNEY, N.S. — Maggie Budden trained to be a cake decorator and ended up becoming Canada’s first female Red Seal ironworker.

With that revelation, it should come as no surprise that the Cape Breton woman also spent time as a telemarketer, bank teller and Avon products representative. She’s also a justice of the peace and mother to two young children.

Budden, whose maiden name was Horne, spent many years working in western Canada at job sites in the northern Alberta oil patch and in Saskatchewan. But then she met a pipefitter who was also from Cape Breton and the two moved back to the East Coast. She now lives near where she grew up on the southside of Boularderie Island. Read more…

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