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Yukon Southern Air Transport (YSAT) was formed on 16Jan1938 as a name change of United Air Transport (UAT), which was owned and operated by George W. (“Grant”) McConachie. McConachie had formed UAT, based in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1933, and brought UAT service to the Yukon on 05Jul1937, when he landed a float-equipped Ford Tri-Motor on the Yukon River at Whitehorse. In 1941, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) bought YSAT as well as Canadian Airways and 8 other small airlines, and on 24Mar1942, they were consolidated as Canadian Pacific Air Lines (CPA)
CP AIR was an amalgamation of 10 smaller airlines in 1942 (CANADIAN AIRWAYS, GINGER COOTE AIRWAYS, SOUTHERN AIR TRANSPORT, WINGS, PRAIRIE AIRWAYS, MACKENZIE AIR SERVICES, ARROW AIRWAYS, STARRATT AIRWAYS, QUEBEC AIRWAYS and MONTREAL & DOMINION SKYWAYS). [CANADIAN AIRLINES was formed in 1987 when CP AIR, EASTERN PROVINCIAL AIRWAYS, PWA and NORDAIR amalgamated. WARDAIR was incorporated in 1989
[ – AIR CANADA was founded as TRANS-CANADA AIR LINES on 10/Apr/1937 starting with mail flights between Vancouver and Seattle. It was renamed to its current name on 01/Jan/1965. Air Canada acquired Canadian Airlines on 04/Jan/2000 and subsequently merged it’s operations in
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