WINGS ACROSS THE WATER: VICTORIA'S FLYING HERITAGE 1871-1971
Written by Elwood White, Peter L. Smith
Published by Harbour Publishing
in 2005
ISBN: 1550173553
WINGS ACROSS THE WATER: VICTORIA'S FLYING HERITAGE 1871-1971
Written by Elwood White, Peter L. Smith.
Stock no. 2139647
1st CANADA.
2005.
Softcover.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 1550173553. A super copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- PART ONE Aerial Pioneers 1871-1913
- 1. Canada's New Province Gets a Flying Start July 20, 1871
- 2. A Procession of Visiting Hot-Air Professors 1880-1908
- 3. Aeronautical Inventors and Barnstormers 1908-1913
- PART TWO The Great War and the Postwar Decade 1914-1929
- 4. World War I ("The Great War") 1914-1918
- 5. The Aerial League of Canada, Victoria Branch 1919-1920
- 6. Pioneer Local Ventures in Commercial Aviation 1920-1926
- 7. The Seattle Airmail Connection 1919-1929
- PART THREE A Municipal Airport for Victoria? 1927-1933
- 8. B.C. Airways and Victoria Aero Club at Lansdowne 1927-1929
- 9. Lansdowne or Gordon Head? Two Lost Causes 1929-1933
- PART FOUR By Seaplane to Vancouver and Seattle 1929-1945
- 10. Alaska-Washington Airways 1929-1931
- 11. Victoria's Elusive Air Harbour 1928-1931
- 12. Esquimalt Serves as Victoria's Air Harbour 1932-1945
- 13. The Difficult Birth of Trans-Canada Air Lines 1937
- PART FIVE Patricia Bay RCAF Station 1936-1945
- 14. The Royal Canadian Air Force at Patricia Bay 1936-1945
- PART SIX Years of Transition and Development 1943-1958
- 15. TCA Begins Regular Passenger Service to Victoria 1943
- 16. Canadian Pacific Arrives.... and Soon Departs 1945-1946
- 17. Trans-Canada Air Line at Patricia Bay Airport 1946-1958
- 18. Victoria Flying Club: Gordon Head Revisited 1946-1948
- 19. Two Commercial Enterprises in the Early Postwar Years
- 20. Private Air Strips Begin to Flourish in Victoria 1946-1965
- 21. The Origins of Vancouver Island Helicopters 1953-1957
- PART SEVEN Victoria International Airport 1959-1971
- 22. New Airport, New Terminal, New Air Canada 1959-1971
- 23. The Royal Canadian Navy at Patricia Bay 1946-1974
- 24. British Columbia Government and Pacific Western Airlines
- 25. Fairey Aviation: Martin Mars Water Bombers 1955-1967
- 26. The Flying Fireman: Canso Water Bombers 1965-1971
- 27. Victoria Flying Services: Harbour Re-opened 1959-1971
- 28. Celebrating Canada and British Columbia 1967-1971
- 29. Looking Back Over a Century... With a Few Glances Ahead
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Aircraft and Registration Data