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A date in history of medicine, science, environmental study, space exploration of benefit to our knowledge of earth and life sciences of interest.

A Hurricane Force

A Hurricane Force

On March 27, 1905, aeronautical engineer Elizabeth Muriel Gregory “Elsie” MacGill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Attracted first to the red-hot field of radio, she became the first woman electrical engineering graduate from the University of Toronto. Working her first job at the…