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Voyageurs of the Air: A History of Civil Aviation in Canada 1858 - 1967 by Main, J. R. K. (John Robert Kennedy) - 1967

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Voyageurs of the Air: A History of Civil Aviation in Canada 1858 - 1967

by Main, J. R. K. (John Robert Kennedy)

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Ottawa: Department of Transport, Government of Canada, 1967. -----Blue cloth with gilt, maps for end papers, (xvii), 397 pages plus 38 pages of colour and b & w photos, owners stamp on ffep, dust jacket is in Very Good condition with small "v" shape open tear front cover top left edge (check out scan). Contents include: Up in a Balloon Boys! / The Wright Brothers / It Might Hve Been - Baddeck and the AEA / The Home-Built Aircraft / William Wallace Gibson / The Templeton-Mullen Episode / Pepper Brothers - George & "Ace" / Difficulties of Pioneer Flight / Exhibiton Flying / Barnstorming in the War Years / World War 1 / The Royal Canadian Naval Air Service / "The World Was All Before Them, Where to Choose" / ICAN and the Air Board / Probing / E. C. Hoy / U.S. Army Air Service / Cross-Canada Reconnaissance Flight / Nibbling at the Arctic / A Charter Flight to the Pas / The Fort Simpson episode - 1921 / The Search for Identity / Aviation Policy - 1920 / A Clear Mission emerges / Tribulations of the Bush Pilot / The Air Engineer / Aviation Comes of Age 1924 / Progress Report on World Aviation / Across Canada by Seaplane - The McKee Foundation / The Age of Gold / The Invasion of the Tundra / The MacAlpine Incident / Little Red River - A Mercy Flight / The Short Route to Europe / Hudson Strait Expedition 1924-28 / Captain McLean's Report / The Flying Club Movement / The Trans-Canada Air Pageant / The Clubs and the BCATP / Early Airmail / The Frontier Routes / Inter-Urban Airmail / Aviation & the Depression / The Evolution of the airport / The Unemployment Relief Project / Flying in Newfoundland / Alcock & Brown / The Record Seekers / The Bush Pilots & the Bremen / Domestic Flying - The Workers / The Planners / The Main & Mercury Experiment / The Trans-Atlantic Ferry Service / Goose / Confederation / The Airship Era / The R-100 / Air Route Licensing & Economic Control / Trans-Canada Airlines / Dawn to Dusk Across Canada / Trans-Canada Airlines Act / TCA Starts Work / The Canadian Government Trans-Atlantic Air Service / Canadian Pacific Airlines / The Trans-Atlantic Ferry Service / ATFERO & the RAF Ferry Command / Canada-U.S. Air Transport Arrangements / Inland Air Route to the Yukon / World War II in Canada / British Commonwealth Air Training Plan / The Canol Project / The Crimson Route & other Wartime Projects / Air Transport Board / International Civil Aviation Org. / U.S.-Canada Air Route Negotiations 1949-66 / Commonwealth & Foreign Airlines operating into Canada / Canadian Pacific Airlines / Air Canada Post War Expansion / The Wheatcroft Report / The All-Jet Fleet /The Dew Line / The Queen Elizabeth Islands / The Airport Assistance Policy in Yukon & the Northwest Territories / Regional Operators - The Big Six / Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) / TransAir / Austin Airways / Nordair / Quebecair / Eastern Provincal airways 1963 / Eldorado Aviation / The Prov. Air Serv. / Ont.Prov. Air Service / Man. Gov. Air Service / Aviation in the Alba. Forest Service / Sask. Gov. Airways / Sask. Air Ambulance / Central Air Transport Service of Que. / The STOL Aircraft / Douglas Aircraft / The FBA-2 Utility Freighter / Aeronautical Research / Wallace Rupert Turnbull / Aeroplane Stability / Aeroplane efficiency / The Arrow Incident / The Helicopter in Canada / Aerial Surveys / The RCMP Air Division / Canada's Position in World Aviation / +++++. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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  • Publisher Department of Transport, Government of Canada
  • Place of Publication Ottawa
  • Date Published 1967
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DEpartment of Transport, Government of Canada , 1967. 397pp. Blue hardback with white spots on covers, DJ has light rubbing and wear at corner and spine tips, two owner names ink stamped on half title page, end pages are maps, appendices, b&w and color photos, History of aviation in Canada from 1858-1967, . Hard Cover. Good+/Good+.
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Ottawa: Department of Transport, 1967. Book. Good. Cloth. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi, 397pp., index, maps, photos. Light edgewear, front board is very slightly bowed, some sunning to edges and spine..
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Ottawa: Department of transport - Air Services Branch, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Sl/chipped. 8vo. pp. 397. b/w and color illustrations, ep maps, ""A tale of inventors, bush pilots, and the development of a vital national industry.""
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Ottawa: Dept. of Transport, 1967. From the "Silver Dart" of Mr Bell to Bush pilots of today this beautiful book is bound to please.From the early inventors to present day airlines.. 1 St Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by In Colour and B &W. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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