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The first plane to be seen over The Pas was a little Avro 504K bringing Frank J. Stanley, a fur buyer, home in October 1920. The townspeople had been warned of the arriving airplane - complete with pilot, mechanic, and passenger - and scanned the skies in anticipation of its arrival. The plane was greeted by a large crowd as it landed at a field behind The Pas Lumber Company. The trip had taken three days, with overnight stops at Swan River and Hudson Bay, SK. The journey would go down in history as the first chartered flight north of the 53rd parallel and the first Winnipeg to The Pas flight. Mr. Stanley told the local newspaper that "The object of the flight was to bring the North to the attention of the airmen, and to cause the possiblities of the use of these machines in the North to be demonstrated."

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The first plane in The Pas: Biplane Avro 504-K in front of The Pas Lumber Co.
1920
The Pas, Manitoba
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Credits:
Elizabeth Kiloh Collection
PP96.2.21

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First airplane to The Pas.
1920
The Pas, Manitoba
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Credits:
E.S. Barker & E.M. (Coan) Barker Collection
PP2011.5.233

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The first historic flight to The Pas in 1920 opened up the north to bush pilots. Planes hauled people and freight. Float planes and ski planes remedied the lack of landing strips in the north. The RCAF even used The Pas as a base for conducting an aerial photographic survey of the North after World War II.

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Western Canada Airways planes (G-CASF and G-CARL) parked at their winter base.
20th Century
The Pas, Manitoba

Credits:
The Pas Historical Society Collection
PP93.18.483

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Western Canada Airways planes (G-CASF and G-CASK) parked at their winter base.
c. 1925
The Pas, Manitoba
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Credits:
The Pas Historical Society Collection
PP93.18.484

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"Spirit of The Pas" G-CAJK plane, changing from wheels to skis.
20th century
The Pas, Manitoba

Credits:
The Pas Historical Society Collection
PP93.18.485

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"Spirit of The Pas" G-CAJK plane, changing from wheels to skis.
20th Century
The Pas, Manitoba

Credits:
The Pas Historical Society Collection
PP93.18.486

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Crowd gathered by a float plane in The Pas.
20th Century
The Pas, Manitoba

Credits:
The Pas Historical Society Collection
PP93.18.487

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Cormorant Lake RCAF plane.
20th Century
The Pas, Manitoba

Credits:
The Pas Historical Society Collection
PP93.18.488

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Freight plane G-CAGD at the winter base of Western Canada Airways, across the river from The Pas.
20th Century
The Pas, Manitoba

Credits:
The Pas Historical Society Collection
PP93.18.490

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Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh standing on the wing of a plane at Churchill.
August 1931
Churchill, Manitoba
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Credits:
E.S. Barker & E.M. (Coan) Barker Collection
PP2011.5.113

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Lindbergh's plane at Churchill.
August 1931
Churchill, Manitoba

Credits:
E.S. Barker & E.M. (Coan) Barker Collection
PP2011.5.118

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Vickers Varoona, a twin engine aircraft, on Halcrow Lake in The Pas at Odessa St. Goddard's dock.
1921 or 1922
The Pas, Manitoba

Credits:
PP84.396.1