Elsie MacGill
Elizabeth Muriel Gregory Elsie MacGill, OC , known as the Queen of the Hurricanes, was the worlds first female aircraft designer. She worked as an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft construction during her years at Canadian Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario. After her work at CCampF she ran a successful consulting business. Between 19671970 she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, published in 1970.
MacGill was born in Vancouver on March 27, 1905, youngest daughter of James Henry MacGill, a prominent Vancouver lawyer, parttime journalist, and Anglican deacon, and Helen Gregory MacGill, a journalist and British Columbias first woman judge. She had two older stepbrothers from her mothers first marriage, and an older sister Dr. Helen Young Helen MacGill Hughes with whom she was very close.
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