Rita McCafferty

Ada Blackjack’s sister. In Ada Blackjack’s informal will, she wrote that she would like her sister to take care of her son Bennett if she did not make it back from the Wrangel Island expedition.

Niven, Jennifer. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic. New York, New York: Hyperion, 2003.; Oceanwide expeditions. Oceanwide Expeditions. (n.d.). Retrieved February 28, 2022, from https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/blog/ada-blackjack-forgotten-queen-of-arctic-expedition-survivors