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[A biplane]

Item is a photograph. Notes written on the back include:
"This is an early Vancouver plane, one of the first after the war. It fell into English Bay, and drowned the son of a clergyman. I think his name was Brenton.
It was recovered and rebuilt by defunct 'Dominion Airways' of Vanc'r, and, in 1939, was stated to be lying, disused, at Sea Island Airport.
I think, at time it fell, that it belonged to a firm called Canada Aircraft Ltd, Vancouver, about 1919 or 1920"

[Captain Glover, Major [Tudhope?] M.C, and Mayor L.D. Taylor at Jericho Beach Station before seaplane flight]

Photograph shows (from left to right): Captain Glover of the B.C. Electric Railway Company, Major [Tudhope] and Mayor L.D. Taylor dressed in flight gear standing in front of a seaplane at the Jericho Beach Station. An article in the March 6, 1939 The Daily Province states that this was Taylor's first flight.

[Captain Glover, Major [Tudhope?] M.C, and Mayor L.D. Taylor in seaplane at Jericho Beach Station preparing for flight]

Photograph shows seated in plane (from left to right): Captain Glover of the B.C. Electric Company, Mayor L.D. Taylor, and Major [Tudhope]. The photograph also shows a man standing on the nose of the plane turning a crank. An article in the March 6, 1939 The Daily Province states that this was Taylor's first flight.

C.P. Air's newly built three jet hangar

Item is a photograph showing the newly built C.P. Air hangar. Caption from Vancouver Express: "Enormous new hangar, the largest in Canada accommodates three jets at CP Air's new $24 million Vancouver airport operations centre. Servicing-office complex covers an area equal to three football fields. Immense building is already being used and is scheduled for official opening later this month."

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