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House Of Commons Air Force
1,279 words... eter's. After 35 minutes, the airplane landed. The first flight was a success, and only two micro-switches had failed to respond. Zus only complaint was that there was no clock in the cockpit to tell the time. Upon leaving the craft, he was hoisted on the shoulders of the crowd like a hero. Crawford Gordon with Canadian flying legend John McCurdy, and Roy Dobson of Hawker-Siddeley, attending the roll-out. On August 23 rd the aircraft was taken to supersonic speeds for the first time. That we...
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Defence Minister George Pearkes Minister George Pearkes Arrow
1,251 words... ir craft were sawed. And we paid $ 300, 000 for the works... We put them on trailers and took them down to the smelters where every one was smelted down. Nobody could purchase the material from us because we were under security. They were watching us all the time. We had three or four men watching us and we had to do it as quickly as we could. War assets came and took the vital parts out of the aircraft, but when that was done they wanted them out in a hurry, scrapped and out. When we got to...
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Nuclear Warhead Due Date
1,284 words... as been delayed or cancelled, but a closer examination shows that the decision is pretty consistent with the rest of the affair. Cold War paranoia was a very real thing, and unless a sensitive piece of technology could be thoroughly protected, it couldnt just be left lying around. While the Arrow was clearly an advanced project, it seemed to have been conspicuously bereft of any friends who would be willing to spend the necessary sums on its maintenance. Its name, it appears, was mud. The to...
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Progressive Conservative Party Party Of Canada
1,097 words... towards having "full independence and complete national sovereignty. Vigorously and successfully he (Borden) asserted the equality of nations comprising the Commonwealth. " (Macquarrie, pg. 3, 1965) In December of 1942, the Conservative Party met at a leadership convention in Winnipeg, and after some prodding by one of the candidates, John Bracken, the name of the Conservative Party was changed to that of the Progressive Conservatives, in order to reflect the party's progressive goals and in...
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Nuclear Warhead Anti Aircraft
3,635 wordsMr. Speaker, with the leave of the House I should like to make a somewhat lengthy statement on the subject of one facet of the national defense of Canada... The government has carefully examined and reexamined the probable need for the Arrow aircraft and Iroquois engine known as the CF- 105... The conclusion arrived at is that the development of the Arrow aircraft and Iroquois engine should be terminated now. Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker, 1 Black Friday, February 20, 1959 Until recently, h...
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University Of Toronto Prime Minister
1,282 wordsLester Lester Pearson Lester Pearson Lester B. Pearson lived from 1897 - 1972. He was born on April 23 1897, in Newtonbrooke Ontario (now part of Toronto). He died on December 27 1972. He was born the son of a Methodist parson. As a child he worked very hard in school, and he became one of the minority of high school graduates who went on to college. In his studies he went to Victoria College and the Methodist College inside the University of Toronto. In his free time he played hockey and baseba...
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