[Canadian Pacific Airlines christening of the "Empress of Vancouver"]
- AM54-S4-: Air P41.1
- Item
- July 22, 1949
Part of Major Matthews collection
Airplane identified as Canadair Four CF-CPR 404
[Canadian Pacific Airlines christening of the "Empress of Vancouver"]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Airplane identified as Canadair Four CF-CPR 404
Opening Day of Vancouver International Airport
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[Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ashthorpe in front of a B.C. Airways Ltd. "Ford Transport" airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[First Nations men wearing regalia at Western Canada Air Show]
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Men identified (left to right): Joseph (Splahk-tum), the sons of Chief Jack Stogen, Chief Jack Stogen (Semilano), Chief Moses Joseph, Chief Jimmy Jimmy (Swahsh), Stanley Joseph
[Pilot Earl Ortman beside] an experimental [air]plane named "Gilmore the Record Breaker" NR-14215
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The "Empress of Auckland", C.P.A. transpacific aircraft, on tarmac at Vancouver Airport.
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[Members of the first Aero Club in British Columbia in front of their bi-plane at Minoru race track]
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Photograph shows (left to right): Billy Macrae, Phil Scott, W.M. (Billy) Stark, Phil H. Smith, Murton A. Seymour and Vic Phillips
[Parachuting from a Curtiss Flying Boat over Lulu Island]
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[Murton A. Seymour at the controls of William Stark's airplane at Minoru Race Track]
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[Men await for Queen Elizabeth to deplane]
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[The Canadian Pacific Airlines airplane in which Queen Elizabeth travelled]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Major D.R. McLaren, Percy Richards, Alderman G.C. Miller, Sheriff Welch, Sheriff Lovely, John Cates, Mr. Anscombe, Premier Johnson, Mrs. Hume, His Worship F.J. Hume, W.T. Boston and others
Mayor R.H. Gale and his two sons [in front of] Curtiss J.N.4 two seater bi-plane]
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[Airport administration building and airplane]
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[Aerial view of] The New International Air Terminal - Vancouver, Canada
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Oblique view. Photograph shows Canadian Pacific Airlines and Air Canada planes at the terminal.
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Part of Major Matthews collection
Frank Way, first Customs Officer, Sea Island Airport and Keith Rider, pilot
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Photograph shows an experimental airplane named "Gilmore the Record Breaker" NR-14215
[Airplane in flight over Minoru Race Track]
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[James Wedell and William Templeton beside Wendell Williams Air Service Incorporated airplane]
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[Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ashthorpe in front of a B.C. Airways Ltd. "Ford Transport" airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Front end of B.C. Airways Ltd. "Ford Transport" airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of Administration building at Sea Island Airport]
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[Charles K. Hamilton] First Air Plane Visitor to Vancouver B.C.
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[Canadian Pacific Airlines pre-inaugural flight of the "Empress of Sydney" to Australia]
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Photograph also shows the Immigration and Customs building.
[Austrialian National Airways D.C. 4 airplane "Warana" on runway]
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[Trans-Canada airplane taxiing at Sea Island airport]
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[Three Catalina Patrol Bombers on test flight]
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[Exterior of Boeing Plant, building one, Sea Island
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows planes in various stages of assembly.
[Exterior of Boeing Plant building two Sea Island]
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