 McGillivray was an Associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and a member of many associations such as the Ontario Society of Artists, the New York Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour.Florence Helena McGillivray died in Toronto on May 7, 1938, and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.Florence Helena McGillivray was born in Pickering Township in Ontario on March 1, 1864.