Wings In The Wilderness
A prospector unloads supplies from a bush plane at Taltheillie Narrows, N.W.T.
In 1919, most of Canada's 3,700,000 square miles were still uncharted wilderness. People could sail along parts of Canada's extensive coastline or travel coast to coast on a single railroad line that virtually hugged the Canadian-American border, but if someone wanted to penetrate into Canada's interior, they were pretty well limited to the horse, canoe or dogsled.
But on June 15, 1919, ex-Royal Naval Air Service pilot Stuart Graham helped change the course of history ...