Collection search - Donald Roderick MacLaren fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Donald Roderick MacLaren fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1919-1973.

Reference:

R3586-0-5-E, MG30-E296

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102581

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Donald Roderick MacLaren fonds
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Fonds includes:

16 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1919-1973.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4 cm of textual records.
16 photographs b&w and col.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of an interview (original, 16 pages) by John Condit with Donald MacLaren about Canadian aviation during the 1920s and 1930s. The interview was the basis for an article published August 27, 1977, in Weekend Magazine. Photographic material depicts events in the career of Donald R. McLaren as pilot in the RFC/RAF during World War One and as pilot and executive with Pacific Airways, Western Canada Airways, and Canadian Airways after the war; and groups of prominent Canadian aviators at various reunions, 1948 and 1973.

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MacLaren, Donald Roderick, b. 1893

Biography/Administrative history:

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MacLaren, Donald Roderick, b. 1893 : Donald MacLaren, aviator, was educated at Western Canada College and McGill University. He was a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He founded Pacific Airways in the 1920s, which was absorbed in 1928 by Canadian Airways. In 1937, he signed on as Trans-Canada Airline's first employee, and retired in 1958 as executive assistant to the president.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 1062; Canadian Who's Who, 1973-1975, pp. 635-636.

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General note:

Textual material received in 1977 from Mr. John Condit of Surrey, B.C. Photographs received in 1977 from Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, Edmonton, Alberta.
Subject heading:

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Donald Roderick MacLaren - Interviews, n.d. John Condit, n.d

Aviation - Canada, n.d. Weekend Magazine,1977

Aviation history, n.d. Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Royal Flying Corps, n.d

Air pilots - Canada, n.d. Pacific Airways, n.d

Airlines - Canada, n.d. Canadian Airways, n.d

Aeroplane industry, n.d. Trans-Canada Airlines, n.d
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1977-070 NPC
MG30-E296

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E296
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 E 296] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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Photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

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