 Her works of art in this mode were acknowledged and she was invited to display her paintings at the Salon des Beaux Arts.Not long later, it is said, the artist was voted as president of the International Union.In the later years of McGillivray's life she joined the Ontario Society of Artists (1917), she was elected an Associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts(1924), and was a Charter member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and its first woman member (1925).