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1950-1971 (Creation)
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2.8 m of textual records
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The Air Transport Board was appointed in September 1944. The Board was responsible for regulating and licensing the rapidly expanding Canadian air transport industry and for advising the Minister of Transport on the most suitable ways to ensure the development of an efficient and prosperous industry. Between the years 1954 and 1971, the regulation, monitoring and awarding of contracts with Canadian commercial air carriers for the re-supply airlift operations of the DEW Line represented a small but important and controversial function of the Air Transport Board in conjunction with the Department of National Defence and the Department of External Affairs. In 1955, the Distant Early Warning Co-ordinating Committee was established in order to facilitate the co-ordination between government bodies and other agencies involved in DEW Line projects. J.R. Baldwin, Paul Y. Davoud, Gerald Morisset (1913- ) and J.R. Belcher served sucessively as Chairmen of the Air Transport Board during the time period represented by this fonds.
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Fonds consists of material maintained by the Air Transport Board and pertaining to contracts regarding airlifts of supplies to Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites for the fiscal years 1958-1971. The files contain information on contracts established with such companies as: CP Air (President - Richard W. Ryan), Federal Electric Corporation, Maritime Central Airways, Northern Construction Co. and J.W. Stewart, Okanagan Helicopters, Pacific Western Airlines , Western Electric Company and Wheler Airlines. A small number of files pertain to airlift operations in Korea. The fonds also contains input from the Air Industries and Transport Association of Canada. Arranged according to a block numeric subject classification system employed by the Air Transport Board. The files have been renumbered.
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Fonds transferred from the Canadian Transport Commission in December, 1977.
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- English
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Unclassified. Files 25, 60 and 62 contain some items flagged as Protected "A".
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Finding aids
Copies of the finding aid are located in the first file of the fonds and in the Reading Room at the Directorate of History and Heritage. Electronic copies are also available.
Associated materials
For related records, researchers should consult: 91/405 (General Inventory for RG 46), Kardex and Confidential Kardex and the Document Collection under Distant Early Warning Line. Researchers should also consult the Debates of the House of Commons for the years 1954-1971 for government discussion on the awarding of contracts by the Air Transport Board.
For associated materials consult the National Archives of Canada -
RG 46: Records of the Canadian Transport Commission (National Archives Finding Aid 46-49; Series 46-Airlifts (Boxes 170-178));
RG 83: Records of Defence Construction Limited.
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No further accruals expected.
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Originally titled Pacific Airlift Operations and DEW Line files from the Air Transport Board
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- Canada. Dept. of National Defence. Distant Early Warning Co-ordinating Committee (Subject)
- CP Air (Subject)
- Federal Electric Corporation (Subject)
- Maritime Central Airways (Subject)
- Okanagan Helicopters (Subject)
- Pacific Western Airlines (Subject)
- Western Electric Company (Subject)
- Wheeler Airlines (Subject)