FROM AIR CANADA ARCHIVES:

The 1970s was an era of transition for Air Canada. The airline retired the last of the very popular Vickers Viscounts, as well as the Vickers Vanguards. It introduced the new widebody Boeing 747 and Lockheed L-1011 Tristar aircraft. These start-of-the-art high capacity airliners truly made travel by air a mass-market phenomena for the travelling public.

In this program we start out with a very historic film reel filmed by Air Canada’s PR department on the occasion of the very last Vickers Viscount service between Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto on April 1, 1974. The Air Canada In the 1970s film quality is not up to today’s standards but to see this footage (filmed mostly on board) is as close to time machine as we’re going to experience.