Elsie MacGill: Heritage Minutes

2019

Elizabeth “Elsie” MacGill, “Queen of the Hurricanes”, aeronautical engineer, feminist. The first female graduate of electrical engineering at the University of Toronto (1927), MacGill was also the first woman to earn her master’s degree in aeronautical engineering (1929) and became the first practising Canadian woman engineer. In 1938, she became chief aeronautical engineer of Canadian Car & Foundry (Can Car), where she headed the Canadian production of Hawker Hurricane fighter planes during the Second World War.

Directed by
Scooter Corkle

Produced by
Historica Canada

Starring
Kayla Deorksen
Michael Daniel Murphy

Costume Design by
Nicole McCormick