By some accounts trans history in Canada starts in 1962 when Jackie Shane was doing her gender ambiguous act at Toronto's Sapphire Tavern; legal secretary Dianna Boileau was arrested and outed after her best friend was killed in a car accident; Marie-Marcelle Godbout arrived in Montréal to start living as female; and the Soeurs-du-Sacré-Coeur pushed the police to charge trans entertainer Lana St-Cyr with giving an indecent performance.
However, eight years earlier in August 1954, a trans woman became the third North American to seek surgery in Copenhagen. In the footsteps of Christine Jorgensen and Charlotte McLeod she arrived in Denmark. As had Charlotte McLeod a year earlier she found that the Folketing had passed a new law restricting sex-change operations to Danish nationals. She self-castrated in her hotel room, forcing the medical authorities to step in.
We do not know her name, or what happened to her afterwards, either in Denmark or in Canada.
Ottawa Citizen?, 19 August 1954.