Canadian Gliding Boosters

Publication

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Canadian Soaring Archive

Journal for the Canadian Glider Boosters tour 1935: The story of the Canadian Glider Boosters gliding exhibition tour, including day by day diary, from May 25 through July 3, 1935.
Journal for the Canadian Glider Boosters tour 1935

The story of the Canadian Glider Boosters gliding exhibition tour, including day by day diary, from May 25 through July 3, 1935.

Name/Title

Canadian Gliding Boosters

Entry/Object ID

2026-03-045

Description

The Canadian Glider Boosters was an ad hoc group of three Alberta glider community members who invested a substantial block of time to flying gliding exhibitions across the prairie provinces. The tour commenced from Calgary on May 25, 1935. The team consisted of Norman Bruce, James Fretwell and Paul Pelletier. The group towed from town to town the Lawrence-Northrup glider owned by Norman Bruce and/or the Calgary Gliding Club. Promotional material indicated an intention, at least initially, to travel all the way to Harris Hill, Elmira, NY, which was at that time the most active locus of gliding in the United States. In the event, the glider was destroyed by a wind storm during the stop in Winnipeg, and that ended the tour.