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“Our Elsie”
In 1951 Elsie Gregory MacGill transferred her membership from Vancouver Club.
Elsie was then an aeronautical engineer of renown, and technical adviser to
the International Aviation Association. Elsie‟s mother, Judge Helen Gregory
MacGill, was a founding and life member of the Vancouver club.
In 1971 Elsie Gregory MacGill was awarded the Canada Medal for her work on
the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1967) and her outstanding work
as an engineer. (At the age of 12, she designed a plane that flew.)
This was only one of her many achievement awards. Some of the others
that followed
were the Amelia Earhart Medal by the International Association of Women Pilots
in 1975; an Honorary LL.D from the University of Windsor and a life membership
in the Canadian Consulting Engineers Society at the International
Engineering Society Conference in 1976; and in 1979 the Outstanding Adventure
Award of the Zonta Club, an award consisting of a medal and $400 for her
favourite charity. She spoke out clearly and concisely on the many issues
of the day: in September 1976 she spoke on the need, work and objectives
for the information of an Ontario Women's Resource Centre. In March 1979 she
was sent as a delegate to the NAC conference in Ottawa.
In November 1981, Elsie Gregory MacGill died while visiting her
sister in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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