Bush Pilot with a Briefcase
Bush Pilot with a Briefcase

Author: Ronald Keith

Publisher: D & M Publishers

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 192670648X

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At the age of twenty-two, Grant McConachie was a bush pilot running his own crazy airline in the Canadian North, flying trappers, gold miners, huskies and fish all over the wilderness. Only sixteen years later, he was appointed president of CPR’S fledgling airline, Canadian Pacific. In Bush Pilot with a Briefcase author Ronald A. Keith tells the incredible story of this country’s most colourful aviation pioneer. On McConachie's first official commercial flight, his passengers were one university professor and two hundred yellow-tailed crows. His first business partners were a Maltese princess and a carnival barker. He kept his early bush planes—and his subsequent career—aloft with equal parts luck and sheer seat-of-the-pants skill. As chief of Canadian Pacific from 1947 until his death in 1965, McConachie expanded his airline across the globe. Everywhere he went, his freewheeling high spirits, flamboyant style and what one journalist called “supersonic salesmanship” made him an irresistible force.

Flying on Instinct
Flying on Instinct

Author: L.D. Cross

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2012-09-28

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1927051851

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They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc and Wop. They worked in open cockpits and flew through cold, snow and fog without the benefit of radios, maps or weather reports. They flew over the Barrens, frozen lakes, boreal forests and mountain ranges by dead reckoning and line of sight. They landed on makeshift runways, glaciers, muskeg, tundra and glassy lakes. Comrades of the wilderness, they were Canada’s early bush pilots. L.D. Cross brings us the incredible stories of the brave and enterprising pilots who rolled back the boundaries of western and northern Canada, delivering mail, medicine, miners and all the supplies needed by frontier settlements. Flying such planes as Curtiss, Bellanca, de Havilland, Fairchild, Junkers, Norseman, Stinson and Vickers, they were the off-roaders of aviation, venturing where no others dared to go. Climb into the cockpit with these pioneering pilots for an exciting trip into Canadian aviation history.

Polar Winds
Polar Winds

Author: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-09-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1459723821

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With historical research and rare interviews, explore the highs and lows of aviation north of the 60th parallel. This journey takes readers from hot air balloons above the Klondike gold fields, to international bids for the North Pole, to high-profile crashes and search-and-rescue operations.

From Barnstorming to Bush Pilot
From Barnstorming to Bush Pilot

Author: Colonel Don G. Gaylor

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1450257836

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My life story began in 1915 and here it is ninety-four incredible years later. Sixty-seven of these years have been the story of Pegs and my life together. A most successful partnership! Our life has been unique in that together we have enjoyed an unusual panoply of adventures and excitement in exotic areas around the globe during some of the more turbulent and historical periods of the modern world. For us to have been a small, active participant, we are surely blessed.

Stories About Storytellers
Stories About Storytellers

Author: Douglas Gibson

Publisher: ECW/ORIM

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1770900497

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The legendary Canadian book editor presents this “remarkable, four-decade romp through the back rooms of publishing” (Toronto Sun). Scottish-born Douglas Gibson was drawn to Canada by the writing of Stephen Leacock—and eventually made his way across the Atlantic to find a job in book publishing, where he edited a biography of none other than Leacock. But over the decades, his stellar career would lead him to work with many more of the country’s leading literary lights. This memoir shares stories of working—and playing—alongside writers including Robertson Davies, Mavis Gallant, Brian Mulroney, Val Ross, W. O. Mitchell, and many more. Gibson reveals the projects he brainstormed for Barry Broadfoot; how he convinced future Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro to keep writing short stories; his early-morning phone call from a former prime minister; and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s reluctant hands—which ultimately garnered the author one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales goes behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures. “He makes his life in publishing sound like great fun.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)