B.C. artist designs new loonie honouring sky-smashing icon Elsie MacGill
Claire Watson’s vision selected by Royal Canadian Mint to honour barrier-breaking engineer
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Claire Watson’s vision selected by Royal Canadian Mint to honour barrier-breaking engineer
Claire Watson’s vision selected by Royal Canadian Mint to honour barrier-breaking engineer
She was the world's first female aircraft engineer.
The RCM's newest circulating commemorative dollar coin highlights the "Queen of the Hurricanes,” a woman who broke WWII-era barriers in the field of aviation engineering and production.
Airplane designer and feminist Elsie MacGill was born in Vancouver more than 100 years ago. She rose to fame during WW2 and died in 1980.