PURCHASE THIS DVD HERE: http://www.henrytenby.com/DVDs/AirCanada1960s.html By many counts, it can be said that Gordon R. McGregor was the father of Canada's National airline. When he became President of the company in 1948, Trans-Canada Air Lines was a fledgeling carrier operating a rag-tag fleet of mostly obsolete WWII surplus aircraft. In 1968 when he retired after twenty years as the company's Chief Executive, much had changed for the airline and the industry. The company had re-named itself to Air Canada and was a leading world airline. From Air Canada's archives, we are honoured to present two films which celebrate the achievements of Gordon McGregor. The first film is G.R. McGregor's re-cap of the airlines operations in 1962, which marked TCA's twenty-fifth anniversary. The airline had just entered the jet age with the introduction of the first Douglas DC-8 jetliners, and the Vickers Vanguards were recently introduced on the trunk Canadian services as well longer haul Caribbean services. The second film is from G.R. Mcgregor's retirement party filmed in 1968. This film opens with G.R.'s speech to the guests at his party, and follows with a thirty minute in-depth history of G.R.'s working career, which more or less is a parallel history of the development of Trans-Canada Air Lines.

• published: 23 Oct 2013
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