Workmen installing a propellor on a River-class frigate (H.M.C.S. WASKESIU?) of the Royal Canadian Navy at the Yarrow shipyard, Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, 28 April 1943.
1950 A North Star aircraft from the Experimental and Proving Establishment (No 412 Squadron), based in Rockcliffe, Ontario, completes the first non-stop trans-Canada flight in a flying time of 125.2 hours