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	Elsie MacGill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill (March 27, 1905 – November 4, 1980), made famous as the Queen of the Hurricanes, was a aeronautical engineer during World War II who did much to make Canada a powerhouse of airplane construction during her years at Canada Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario.
		Elsie was born in Vancouver on March 27, 1905, daughter of James Henry MacGill, a prominent Vancouver lawyer, and Helen Gregory MacGill, British Columbia's first woman judge.
		Elsie MacGill died on November 4, 1980 in a car accident in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elsie_MacGill (1010 words)

	Canadian Portaits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		MacGill was then engaged as the chief aeronautical engineer by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, where she designed the Maple Leaf Trainer (possibly the first airplane designed by a woman).
		Elsie MacGill also took the then unusual step of keeping her maiden name when she married in 1943, perhaps as an acknowledgment of her mother's influence on her life.
		Among Elsie MacGill's honours and awards are the Gzowski Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada (1941), the Award for Meritorious Contribution to Engineering from the Society of Women Engineers (a United States organisation, 1953), and the Order of Canada (1971).
	collections.ic.gc.ca /portraits/docs/women/ea148380.htm (558 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Canada’s first woman electrical engineer, Elsie MacGill received her Master’s Degree, in 1929, from the University of Michigan where her professors proclaimed that she was the only woman in the world to hold a graduate degree in aeronautical engineering.
		Elsie MacGill did not allow the pain and permanent lameness to amount to anything more than a setback in her career.
		Although her lame body would not have tolerated childbirth, Elsie MacGill did have a loving husband, E.J. Soulsby, a widower whom she met years earlier at Fairchild Aircraft, and stepchildren, Anne and John, who were 11 and 14 years old at the time of her 1943 marriage.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/46-49.htm (1112 words)

	Elsie MacGill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Her mother was an advocate of women's (A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment) suffrage and influenced Elsie's decision to study engineering.
		MacGill and Soulsby then moved to (The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)) Toronto and set up a aeronautical consulting business.
		Elsie MacGill died on November 4, 1980 in a car accident in (Click link for more info and facts about Cambridge, Massachusetts) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/El/Elsie_MacGill1.htm (1151 words)

	MacGill, Helen Gregory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		MacGill, Helen Gregory, née Helen Emma Gregory, feminist, reformer, judge (b at Hamilton, Canada W 7 Jan 1864; d at Chicago, Ill 27 Feb 1947).
		Widowed young, she married James MacGill in 1903 and spent the remainder of her life in Vancouver.
		MacGill served for 23 years as judge of the Juvenile Court there; she was the first woman appointed judge in the region (1917) and the third in Canada.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004901 (167 words)

	CC&F Part 2: Elsie MacGill
		Born in 1905 in Vancouver, Elsie MacGill was a force to be reckoned with.
		MacGill enrolled in the University of Michigan, and in 1929 became the first woman to graduate with a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering.
		MacGill's legs were never strong enough to fly her airplane but she flew in the second seat in every test flight.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Canada/Canada_Car/ccf_part_2_elsie_macgill.htm (690 words)

	Innovation Canada \| Canadian Women Pioneers \| Elizabeth Muriel, Gregory MacGill (Elsie)
		Her mother was Helen Gregory MacGill, a suffragist, newspaper reporter and the first woman judge in British Columbia.
		Elsie's father was James Henry MacGill, a well-known lawyer.
		MacGill was also in charge of all engineering work on the Curtiss-Wright Helldiver fighters for the United States Navy.
	www.innovationcanada.ca /15/en/articles/women-research-9.html (691 words)

	Welcome to Inventive Women
		Elsie MacGill was known for her role as chief engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company during World War II.
		Elsie was the first woman to graduate from the electrical engineering program at the University of Toronto in 1927.
		Elsie was active in campaigns for paid maternity leave, day care facilities and the liberalization of abortion laws.
	www.inventivewomen.com /library/library_elsiemacgill_on.shtml (423 words)

	Thesis on Women's history report on Elizabeth MacGill, a Canadian woman who set a standard for women around the world.
		Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, known as Elsie, was born in Vancouver in 1905.
		Elsie was an ambitious person, who believed that every man and woman should work hard to benefit themselves, his or her futures and society as a whole.
		Elsie MacGill paved the way for generations of young women, inspiring them and showing by example that any goal in life is attainable through hard work and determination.
	www.emailessay.com /paper/Womens_history_report_on_Eliz-139211.html (262 words)

	Elsie MacGill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Elsie nació en Vancouver de marcha la 27 1905, hija del Henrio MacGill de James, abogado prominente de Vancouver, y Helen de Gregory MacGill, primer juez británico de la mujer de Colombia.
		MacGill y Soulsby entonces movido a Toronto e instalaron un negocio que consultaba aeronáutico.
		Elsie MacGill murió de noviembre el 4 el de an o 80 en un accidente de coche en Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/el/Elsie%20MacGill.htm (1021 words)

	Elsie MacGill - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		UofT graduation photo Elsie was born in Vancouver on March 27, 1905, daughter of James Henry MacGill, a prominant Vancouver lawyer, and Helen Gregory MacGill, British_Columbia's first woman judge.
		Elsie MacGill during her CCF years The Maple Leaf was designed and first built in CCF's Ft. William (now Thunder Bay) factories, where she had moved.
		MacGill once said: "I have received many engineering awards, but I hope I will also be remembered as an advocate for the rights of women and children." Elsie MacGill died on November 4, 1980 in a car accident in Cambridge,_Massachusetts.
	www.erdmond.com /Elsie_MacGill.html (990 words)

	University of Toronto National Report 2002
		Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill was not one to follow in others' footsteps.
		A 1927 graduate of U of T, MacGill was the first woman to graduate in Canada with a degree in electrical engineering.
		MacGill died on November 4, 1980, and three years later was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame.
	www.nationalreport.utoronto.ca /scitech.asp (962 words)

	JUDGE HELEN MACGILL - WOMEN IN B.C. HISTORY - BC ARCHIVES TIME MACHINE
		In Vancouver, Helen MacGill became a founding member of both the Vancouver Women's Press Club and the Vancouver Creche, a free nursery for children of working mothers.
		MacGill continued her fight for women's rights, and found support for her cause at the University Women's Club.
		MacGill's efforts for women's rights proved fruitful when, in February of 1912, a bill allowing women to practise at the bar in British Columbia passed into law.
	www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca /exhibits/timemach/galler10/frames/macgill.htm (346 words)

	MacGill, Helen Gregory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		MacGill, Helen Gregory, née Helen Emma Gregory, féministe, militante et juge (Hamilton, Canada-Ouest, 7 janv.
		Helen Gregory MacGill y est juge du tribunal de la jeunesse pendant 23 ans.
		Sa biographie écrite par sa fille, Elsie Gregory MACGILL, My Mother the Judge (1981), qui est aussi en partie une autobiographie, est un document de valeur pour le MOUVEMENT DES FEMMES.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0004901 (182 words)

	Celebrating women achievement's - Canadian Women in Science - Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill (Elsie)
		Helen worked to change legislation to improve the lives of women and children in Canada and was a strong role model for her daughter.
		MacGill published a biography of her mother in 1955 entitled My mother the judge : a biography of Judge Helen Gregory MacGill.
		Elsie Gregory MacGill's personal papers can be consulted at the National Archives of Canada. -- MG 31, K7 (Finding Aid #1462). -- They were donated in 1974 and 1983 and cover the years from 1911 to 1983.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-409-e.html (1018 words)

	Canada Science and Technology Museum
		Always a pioneer, Elizabeth “Elsie” MacGill (1905—1980) accumulated a unique list of firsts during her career.
		She was the first Canadian woman to obtain an electrical engineering degree (Toronto, 1927), the first woman in North America to earn a degree in aeronautical engineering (Toronto, 1929), and the world’s first woman chief aeronautical engineer.
		She was appointed commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada in 1967, and was among the most respected women engineers in Canada when she died at the age of 75.
	www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca /ENGLISH/collection/innovation03.cfm (276 words)

	U of T Magazine Spring 2002 -- Fairly Determined
		Shortly after finishing her studies at the University of Michigan, doctors discovered that MacGill was suffering from polio and told her she would likely spend her life in a wheelchair.
		MacGill taught herself how to walk with canes – and, three years later, sold her wheelchair.
		Like her mother, MacGill championed women’s rights, serving as a member of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.
	www.magazine.utoronto.ca /02spring/f03.htm (1917 words)

	Women In The War
		By January of 1942 the first group of officers were ready for action, and the first troop of airwomen where ready to hit the skies.
		Elsie MacGill is one of the well known women of war.
		Elsie was the first women to earn her master's degree in aeronautical engineering a University of Michigan.
	www.bytor.com /canrem/hogess2.htm (819 words)

	Pioneer Profile - E. Macgill
		She was the daughter of James Henry MacGill, who practised law in Vancouver for over forty years and Judge Helen Gregory MacGill, who was the first woman jurist in B.C.and Judge of the Juvenile Court in Vancouver for twenty-two years.
		Elsie definitely inherited her mother's pioneering spirit as her career developed.
		Elsie Gregory MacGill died at the age of 75 in a car accident at Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 4, 1980.
	www.canadian99s.org /articles/p_macgill.htm (738 words)

	Elizabeth M.G MacGill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Elsie MacGill was born in Vancouver, B.C. on March 27, 1905.
		Elsie received the Gzowski Medal three years later for her paper on the " Factors Affecting the Mass Production of Aeroplanes".
		Elsie MacGill died on November 4, 1980 and three years later was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /high_flyers/macgill.htm (247 words)

	elsie_macgill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Canadian Elsie MacGill was the first woman aircraft designer in the world.
		Part 2: Queen of the Hurricanes Born in 1905 in Vancouver, Elsie MacGill was a force to be reckoned with.
		Elsie MacGill was the first woman to receive an Electrical Engineering degree in Canada in 1927.
	elsie_macgill.networklive.org (316 words)

	Innovation Canada \| PionniÃ¨res Canadiennes \| Elizabeth Muriel, Gregory MacGill (Elsie)
		Très respectée au Canada et dans le monde, Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, mieux connue sous le nom d'Elsie, était par ses réalisations une femme d'envergure; elle était ingénieure, consultante, conseillère, auteure, commissaire et défenseur des droits de la femme.
		Elsie est peut-être mieux connue pour son travail sur les Hawker Hurricane, avions de combat qui ont servi durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et qui ont joué un rôle déterminant lors de la bataille d'Angleterre.
		Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill a ouvert la voie Ã une gÃ©nÃ©ration de jeunes femmes, les incitant par l'exemple Ã croire qu'il est possible d'atteindre n'importe quel objectif dans la vie pourvu qu'on s'y emploie avec dÃ©termination.
	www.innovationcanada.ca /15/fr/articles/femmes-en-recherche-9.html (760 words)

	M Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Elizabeth MacGill received her elementary and secondary education in Vancouver and then attended the University of Toronto.
		She was the first woman to graduate from that university with an Electrical Engineering Degree in 1927 and later attended Michigan University where she became the first woman to get her Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from that university.
		During WWII, MacGill was responsible for mass production of military aircraft at the Fort William plant and was also in charge of the engineering work related to the Canadian production of the Hawker Hurricane.
	www.cahf.ca /members/M_members.htm (4224 words)

	CM Magazine: Rosies of the North.
		Her degree was in aeronautical engineering, and she was the first woman in the world to design an airplane.
		In the film, Rosies, now senior citizens, were interviewed about their experiences and asked also for their opinions of Elsie MacGill.
		Many thought she was too conscious of her accomplishments and looked down on the women who worked on the floor.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol6/no17/rosies.html (522 words)

	Elsie MacGill Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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	International Women's Day \| History \| Female Doctor \| Elizabeth Blackwell \| Marie Curie \| Dian Fossey \| Georgia O'Keefe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Elsie MacGill was the first woman in North America to get a degree in aeronautical engineering.
		During World War II, she was responsible for production of the Hawker Hurricane fighter plane - she adapted it for flying in cold weather.
		Elsie MacGill also designed the Maple Leaf trainer.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1871.htm (517 words)

	The History of Flight
		Canadian aeronautical engineer Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill was no stranger to "firsts".
		She was the first woman to get an electrical engineering degree in Canada, the first woman in North America to get a degree in aeronautical engineering, and the first woman aircraft designer in the world!
		MacGill also developed a winterized Hawker Hurricane complete with skis and de-icers.
	www.yesmag.bc.ca /focus/flight/flight_history.html (622 words)

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