Pioneering in Canadian Air Transport

Originally published in 1974, this copy a 1975 Second Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 315 pages, 8.5x11 in - 21.5x28.5 cm, B&W illustrations and photographs.

Ex-library. Boards worn and bumped at corners. Spine rubbed at head and heel, bumped at heel. Brodart-wrapped dust jacket creased, lightly rubbed at edges, with closed tears to front and back at top. Top edge lightly foxed. Spine tender at pp.ii-iii. Gift inscription and presentation bookplate (to “selected Canadian libraries” from the Richardson Century Fund) to front pastedown. P.ii bears “Department of Education School Libraries Division” stamp, but book is otherwise free of library marking

Kenneth M. Molson earned his private pilot’s license at age 20, worked for Avro during the engineering and testing of the Arrow, and became the Canadian Aviation Museum’s first curator in 1960. In this volume Molson details the history of Western Canada Airways and its successor, Canadian Airways Limited 1909-1941. In doing so, he also traces James A. Richardson’s influence on Canadian aviation. He describes Western Canada Airways’ creation and expanding service in western and northern locations, the transition to Canadian Airways Limited, Richardson’s death in 1939, and Canadian Airways Limited’s sale during WWII. With large photographs, anecdotes of flying adventures, and attention to advances in flying technology, Molson’s book offers an overview of Canadian transport aviation in the early twentieth century.

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