Original upload date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 07:38:00 GMT
Elsie MacGill was the world’s first female aeronautical engineer and Canada’s first practicing woman engineer. She oversaw Canada’s production of Hawker Hurricane aircrafts at the Canadian Car & Found
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ry factory during the Second World War. Hawker Hurricanes were one of the main fighters flown by Canadian and Allied airmen in the Battle of Britain. This Heritage Minute follows Elsie MacGill in her role as chief engineer overseeing the production of these instrumental aircrafts.
For more information about Elsie MacGill, please visit:
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/elizabeth-muriel-gregory-macgill
Credits:
Elsie MacGill – Kayla Deorksen
Reporter – Michael Daniel Murphy
End Narrator – Dr. Donna Strickland
Director – Scooter Corkle
Director of Photography – Cole Graham
Produced by Point Blank Creative
