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Elsie MacGill

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Elsie MacGill
OccupationAeronautical engineer

Elsie MacGill was hired in 1938 as chief engineer of the Canadian Car and Foundry plant at Fort William, an exception to the plant's practice of employing women only as clerical staff.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Helen E. H. Smith and Pamela Wakewich, "Representations of Women and Wartime Work in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Newspaper, The Aircrafter", Papers and Records, vol. XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1997), p. 67. Archived: datum.locker.