Canadian Airways

Fairchild 71C (CF-AKT) in Canadian Airways livery at the Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canadian Airways was an airline formed when Western Canada Airways bought out Commercial. It operated through the 1930s until it was purchased by Canadian Pacific Air Lines in 1941, carrying passengers on mail planes into smaller communities.

History

James Armstrong Richardson established WCA in March 1926 to serve the Red Lake gold rush. It operated out of Hudson and Winnipeg's Stevenson airfield.^[1] It reorganized in 1930 with the amalgamation of a number of carriers, while taking the name of one of the smaller companies it absorbed.^[2][3]

Aircraft

Replica Ju 52/1m CF-ARM at the Western Canada Aviation Museum.

Aircraft operated by Canadian Airways included:

• Boeing 40 (CF-AIN, CF-AIM)^[4]
• Consolidated Fleetster (CF-AIP)^[5]
• De Havilland Dragon
• Fairchild 71C (CF-ACO and CF-ACT),
• Fairchild 82A (CF-AXE)
• Fokker F.14 (CF-AIG, CF-AIK)^[6]
• Fokker Super Universal (G-CASM, G-CASN, G-CASK and others) ^[7]
• Fokker Universal ()^[8]
• Junkers W 34
• the sixth Ju 52 built, Junkers Ju 52/1m (CF-ARM), a large single-engined monoplane powered by a Rolls-Royce Buzzard received in 1936. Known as the Flying Boxcar, it was the largest aircraft in Canada^[9] and operated from wheels, skiis and floats.^[10]
• Lockheed Vega (CF-AAL)
• Lockheed Model 10 Electra (CF-AZY)
• Pitcairn Mailwing^[11]
• four Stearman 4EMs,^[12][13] (CF-AMB, CF-AMC etc)^[14]

Destinations

Destinations served included:

• Carcross, Yukon
• Lac-à-la-Tortue Airport (Quebec),
• Grande Prairie Airport (Grande Prairie, Alberta)
• Peace River, Alberta^[15]
• Seattle, Washington^[16]
• Vancouver, British Columbia^[16]
• Victoria, British Columbia
• Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba^[16]
• Sioux Lookout, Ontario^[16]
• Kenora, Ontario^[16]
• Red Lake, Ontario
• Pickle Lake, Ontario
• Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island^[16][17]
• Montreal, Quebec^[16][17]
• Prince Albert, Saskatchewan^[16][17]
• Edmonton, Alberta^[16][17]
• Toronto, Ontario^[16][17]
• Winnipeg, Manitoba^[16]

References

• Molson, K.M. (1974). Pioneering in Canadian Air Transport. Altona, Manitoba: D.W. Friesen & Sons. ISBN 0-91921239-5. 

Further reading

• Air timetables
• Media related to Canadian Airways at Wikimedia Commons

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