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Elsie MacGill
“Elsie” MacGill
Canada's ‘Queen of the Hurricanes’ honoured in Heritage Minute TV spot.
JOHN MACKIE
For its latest Heritage Minute, Historica Canada dipped into Vancouver’s past, via Fort William, Ont.
Queen of the Hurricanes looks at the remarkable career of Elsie MacGill, a Vancouver native who was the world’s first female aeronautical engineer.
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During the Second World War, MacGill oversaw production of more than 1, Hawker Hurricane fighter planes at the Canadian Car and Foundry plant in Fort William (now Thunder Bay).
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The Hawker Hurricane was one of the workhorses of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, downing more German planes than the more famous Spitfire.
The Heritage Moment features a male newspaper reporter interviewing MacGill at the plant, walking through the production line and onto the field to see a Hurricane being tested. MacGill def