Description
a-Photo of Province of Ontario loading barrels onto plane at North Bay airport
b- Photo of barrels of fuel being used to fill small plane at North Bay airport.
c-d Photos of RCAF in front of planes post Second World War.
Information from Captain Doug Newmann:
020.01.09c
The airplane is a Canadian-built Avro Lancaster bomber. The Lancaster was
designed by the British and originally built in the UK. During the war,
Canada stepped in to help, and manufactured 430 of the planes.
This photo however was shot after the war. The Royal Canadian Air Force
flew ex-Second World War Lancasters in a host of jobs--patrolling the seas,
search-and-rescue, mapping, charting and photography of the country,
scientific research and much more.
Which air force unit this Lancaster belongs to and who the men are is
unknown. The photos do not show the airplane's numbers or letters--its
identification, kind of like a license plate. Without these I'm stymied.
As for the date: 1948.
The Dodge pickup truck in 020.01.09a is from 1945, 1946 or 1947 Dodge. The
license plate is not clear enough to show the year.
However Ontario used white numbers on dark license plates in 1948, 1950,
1953, 1955 and 1957.
However from the little that I can see of the Lancaster's markings in that
same photo, the date has to be 1948.
In fact: 020.01.09b jpg shows a Royal Canadian Air Force Vampire fighter jet
plane. Apparently this image was taken at the same time as the Lancaster;
the date has to be 1948, because of the Vampire's markings.
