Maritime Central Airways collection

• Document textuel
• Document iconographique

• Source du titre propre: Title based on contents of the fonds

collection

Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island

CA PCA Acc4973

.06 m of textual records
16 photographs

McGlynn, Henry Trent "Lofty"

Coyle, Fred T.

Gaudet, Rick

These records were collected by Henry Trent "Lofty" McGlynn (13 November 1919 - 14 September 2008) of New Brunswick and Rick Gaudet of Nova Scotia. The materials were transferred to Fred T. Coyle of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1991. Mr. Coyle made some additions to the records: a copy of a 2007 letter from Mr. Coyle to Mr. McGlynn; a "Guardian" newspaper article on the Boeing 247D U.S. postage stamp; a letter between former senior M.C.A. Captains Don Douglas and Bob Graham; and a few pages of photographs. Mr. Coyle transferred the records to the Public Archives and Records Office.

This collection includes records related to Maritime Central Airways such as newspaper articles, histories, staff lists, statistics, aircraft information, photographs, and tariff manual excerpts. Some records concerning M.C.A.-Nordair, Wheeler and Eastern Provincial are also contained in the collection.

Maritime Central Airways (MCA) was established in 1941 by Carl Burke of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The first flight of Maritime Central Airways was 7 December 1941. The airline was involved in passenger and cargo flights along with a number of other assignments including ice patrols for the Department of Transport, lobster and strawberry charters, seal surveys, forestry patrols for the Government of New Brunswick, bush flying, and ships crew transport. MCA had a wholly-owned subsidiary called Newfoundland Airways Limited from 1948 to 1951. In the early 1950s, MCA transported supplies and equipment for the Pinetree Project, the construction of U.S. radar stations from St. Anthony, Newfoundland to Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island. After the Pinetree Project was completed in 1954, Maritime Central Airways was the airlift contractor for an eastern chain of DEW radar stations (Distant Early Warning System). Boreal Airways of St. Felicien, Quebec and Mont Laurier Aviation of Roberval, Quebec became wholly-owned subsidiaries of MCA in 1956. On 27 November 1956 these two companies were merged as Nordair Ltd. In 1960, Nordair purchased Wheeler Airlines Limited. In 1963, Carl Burke sold Maritime Central Airways to Eastern Provincial. Nordair was not included in the sale of MCA. On 7 September 1967, James Tooley of Montreal bought eighty-five percent of Nordair, though Carl Burke remained a director and member of the executive committee until his death in 1976.

• Maritime Central Airways - Photographs
• Airplanes - Photographs

• McGlynn, Henry Trent "Lofty" (Producteur)
• Coyle, Fred T. (Producteur)
• Gaudet, Rick (Producteur)
• Maritime Central Airways (Sujet)