Isabel Macneill

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Isabel Janet Macneill, OC, OBE (4 June 1908 – 18 August 1990) was a Canadian Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service officer and public servant.

Appointed commander of the stone frigate HMCS Conestoga in 1943, Macneill was the first Canadian woman to command a naval establishment.[1]

After the Second World War, she became a prison superintendent.

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  1. ^ "Isabel Macneill". The Canadian Encyclopedia. 28 December 2021.