As promised, we are continuing with the ventures of George William Grant McConachie and coincidentally that of aviation in northern Alberta and beyond. Before…
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Next Stop, Hong Kong
A cargo of painted crows put Grant McConachie into the air transport business. Now he is putting Pacific into Canadian Pacific Airlines June 1 1949 FRANK HAMILTON
Next Stop, Hong Kong
FRANK HAMILTON
THIS SUMMER at Vancouver’s International Airport an ex-bush pilot named Grant McConachie will launch the most ambitious project in the history of Canadian commercial aviation. As president of Canadian Pacific Airlines he will inaugurate Canada’s first trans-Pacific plane services which will bring New Zealand, Australia and the Orient closer to North America than ever before.
The air traveler will he able to lunch in Vancouver one day and lunch in Hong Kong the next, covering 6,952 miles in 19 flying hours. He will get a seven-league-boot hop around the northern rim of the world, over a quarter of the globe’s most forbidding terrain.