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Dash-7 ready for its debut
Dash-7 ready for its debut

Dash-7 ready for its debut

Date5/11/1977
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129999F
His weapon's the Dash-8: Air Atonabee president Joe Csumrik of Peterborough is staking $30 million on the 2-engined, 36-passenger de Havilland Dash 8, to gain the lion's share of the Toronto Ottawa-Montreal business passenger trade. John Gilmore of Montreal is betting $35 million on the Dash 7. It'll be no contest, says Csumrik, above, in the cockpit of his firm's plane.
His weapon's the Dash-8: Air Atonabee president Joe Csumrik of Peterborough is staking $30 million on the 2-engined, 36-passenger de Havilland Dash 8, to gain the lion's share of the Toronto Ottawa-Montreal business passenger trade. John Gilmore of Montreal is betting $35 million on the Dash 7. It'll be no contest, says Csumrik, above, in the cockpit of his firm's plane.
7/21/1983
High-flying salesman Mike Kilburn, who helped beat a sales deadline for the Dash 7 Short-takeoff-and-landing airplane by selling five of tghe craft to Ethopian Airlines, strolls back home in North York with wife Pat and daughter Erika
High-flying salesman Mike Kilburn, who helped beat a sales deadline for the Dash 7 Short-takeoff-and-landing airplane by selling five of tghe craft to Ethopian Airlines, strolls back home in North York with wife Pat and daughter Erika
6/27/1975
Maclean's managing editor Mel Morris and executive editor John Macfarlane go over some new layouts for the new twice-monthly newsmagazine format, due to make its debut Oct
Maclean's managing editor Mel Morris and executive editor John Macfarlane go over some new layouts for the new twice-monthly newsmagazine format, due to make its debut Oct
8/28/1975
Ready for debut: Construction company president John Bull and Cheryl Sargent, manager of Sauna and Spa Bath Gallery, try out the Turbofuro hot tub on display Kitchen and Bath Show opening today at the International Centre. Bull got the idea while on a business trip to Japan.
Ready for debut: Construction company president John Bull and Cheryl Sargent, manager of Sauna and Spa Bath Gallery, try out the Turbofuro hot tub on display Kitchen and Bath Show opening today at the International Centre. Bull got the idea while on a business trip to Japan.
9/4/1985
Maiden flight of the Dash 7. Soaring over a test area near Markham, 50-passenger STOL (for short take-off and landing) Dash 7 make its first flight Th(...)
Maiden flight of the Dash 7. Soaring over a test area near Markham, 50-passenger STOL (for short take-off and landing) Dash 7 make its first flight Th(...)
3/27/1975
Brampton Solo Parents Association named its first Father of the Year Saturday - Neville Case, an engineering writer who's divorced and raising his five children. He tries out the trophy tankard given him, surrounded by the children-Joan, 13, Mike, 12, Yvonne, Eileen, 10, and Philip, 7-and Diamond the cat. So far as t Brampton club knows, it's the first Solo Parents award in Cana [Incomplete]
Brampton Solo Parents Association named its first Father of the Year Saturday - Neville Case, an engineering writer who's divorced and raising his five children. He tries out the trophy tankard given him, surrounded by the children-Joan, 13, Mike, 12, Yvonne, Eileen, 10, and Philip, 7-and Diamond the cat. So far as t Brampton club knows, it's the first Solo Parents award in Cana [Incomplete]
6/18/1972
Flying low. City Express' Dash-7's are carrying the load after its Dash-8s, above, were seized by creditors. Air Ontario, which also flies to Montreal(...)
Flying low. City Express' Dash-7's are carrying the load after its Dash-8s, above, were seized by creditors. Air Ontario, which also flies to Montreal(...)
8/2/1990
Andrew Cohen: One-third of Canada's population - its 7 million children - have almost no legal rights
Andrew Cohen: One-third of Canada's population - its 7 million children - have almost no legal rights
12/12/1978
Roger Calverley's getting ready to teach a night course on survival and it's expected to be a sellout.
Roger Calverley's getting ready to teach a night course on survival and it's expected to be a sellout.
10/2/1981
Dash service: Air Ontario president William Deluce displays a Dash 8 on the tarmac at Toronto Island Airport. The airline intends to use the plane for daily trips from the airport to Montreal and Ottawa by April.
Dash service: Air Ontario president William Deluce displays a Dash 8 on the tarmac at Toronto Island Airport. The airline intends to use the plane for daily trips from the airport to Montreal and Ottawa by April.
11/16/1989
Cavorting children have gay time around clown whose sandwich board announces the Canadian Weekly, new magazine making its debut in Saturday's Star. Va(...)
Cavorting children have gay time around clown whose sandwich board announces the Canadian Weekly, new magazine making its debut in Saturday's Star. Va(...)
6/6/1962
Fixes: Boeing president Dean Thornton, left, says solutions are coming for the problems that have delayed deliveries of de Havilland Dash 8s.
Fixes: Boeing president Dean Thornton, left, says solutions are coming for the problems that have delayed deliveries of de Havilland Dash 8s.
4/9/1987