<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> (Two stepchildren) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Parent (s) </Th> <Td> James Henry MacGill and Helen Gregory MacGill </Td> </Tr> <P> Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill, OC (March 27, 1905--November 4, 1980), known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was likely the world's first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and was the first woman in Canada to receive a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering . She worked as an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft construction during her years at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario . After her work at CC&F she ran a successful consulting business . Between 1967--1970 she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, published in 1970 . </P> <P> MacGill was born in Vancouver on March 27, 1905, youngest daughter of James Henry MacGill, a prominent Vancouver lawyer, part - time journalist, and Anglican deacon, and Helen Gregory MacGill, a journalist and British Columbia's first woman judge . She had two older step - brothers from her mother's first marriage, and an older sister Dr. Helen "Young Helen" MacGill Hughes (1903) with whom she was very close . </P>

Aircraft designer known as the queen of hurricanes