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First practical Airplane built in Canada is shown in this 1913 picture
First practical Airplane built in Canada is shown in this 1913 picture

First practical Airplane built in Canada is shown in this 1913 picture

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Original Toronto Star caption: First practical Airplane built in Canada is shown in this 1913 picture. At the controls is Gordon K. Hood Sr. who; at the age of 19; built the machine with the help of another youth from pictures without ever having seen a real airplane. Hood; a native of Toronto and a pioneer flier; retired from aviation Dec. 31 after 20 years with Bell Aircraft Corporation; of Buffalo; N.Y.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberTSPA_0003544F
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      Beaty, Keith
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      St. Paul's Church on Bloor St. was built in 1913, replacing a smaller church, in order to accommodate the crowds that flocked to hear Canon Henry Cody(...)
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      First of three lake tankers being built at Collingwood, the Imperial Collingwood is shown as she took to the water Saturday in a perfect launching. Th(...)
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/29/1947
      Premier-elect William Davis (shown here in victory gesture with party president Alan Eagleson) is described by Frank McGee as a practical idealist
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      Bull, Ron
      9/19/1974
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      Bull, Ron
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      Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974
      11/13/1935
      First practical step towards the union of the Church of England in Canada and the United Church of Canada was visualized at Red Rock recently. Rev. W.(...)
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/5/1946
      After visiting the Ex every year since 1913, CNE fan Elizabeth Perkins, 86, tried a candy floss for the first time this year and didn't like it. She s(...)
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      Beaty, Keith
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      1875
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      Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818
      1820