She was dedicated to fighting for women’s rights. #printmaking #DisabledInSTEM

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precision parts which had to be interchangeable with the UK made Hurricanes, & streamline mass production of these planes. The work made her famous and she even appeared in a comic book biography in an issue of True Comics in 1942, using her nickname, “Queen of the Hurricanes”.

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In 1942, she was hired as Chief Aeronautical Engineer at CC&F where she designed the Maple Leaf Trainer II. Then, the company was selected to manufacture Hawker Hurricanes for the RAF. She became responsible for increasing the workforce from 500 to 4,500 mainly women workers & the tooling of 25,000

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She got her master’s in aeronautical engineering at UMich where she contracted polio. Told she would not walk again, she taught herself how to walk with 2 canes, then got her PhD at MIT. She worked at Fairfield Aircraft in Longueuil, Quebec, collaborating on plane design & publishing papers.

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make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft manufacturing. Later, she served as a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, which published their report in 1970. She wrote, “My presence in the University of Toronto’s engineering classes in 1923 certainly turned a few heads.”

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