The family had a summer house, which they named "The Barge", on Kingsmere Lake located next door to the future Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King [REF].
After a private prep school for girls, and later secondary school, in 1931, at the age of 16, Jane travelled to London with her mother and older sister, "Betty" who was studying piano with classical pianist Katharine Goodson at the University of London [REF].