First TransCanada Airlines flight 1939
Description
- Creator
- TransCanada Airlines, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Agnes Macphail as part of the group who flew on the first Transcanada Airlines cross-country flight from Ottawa to Vancouver in 1939. Some of her travelling companions on the flight were Commander Edwards and Hon. John Bracken, premier of Manitoba, as well as fellow M.P.s Gerry McGeer (former mayor of Vancouver) and Leslie Alexander(Les) Mutch. Tommy Wayling and Evelyn Tufts represented the press gallery. Agnes Macphail was prevented from making the return flight because of an ear infection. [See close up of Agnes Macphail].
- Notes
- Details about Agnes Macphail's flight can be found in her April 6, 1939 letter to the Durham Review.
- Publisher
- TransCanada Airlines
- Date of Original
- 1939
- Date Of Event
- 1939
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- JB001
- Collection
- Private
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses are subject to the terms of a license. Contact the repository for further information. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Date
- 1939
- Copyright Holder
- TransCanada Airlines
- Terms of Use
- Credit line: TransCanada Airlines
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