Episode 4 - Flying into a Bunker (Part 2)

Shawinigan Moments

Did you know that Canada once had the ability to manufacturer planes that were rather cool and technologically advanced for their time? How about proposals to build airports every 50 KM? Besting the Americans by providing airmail before them? Or how we had the fourth largest airforce in the world at one point?

This is part two of a three part series! Listen to part one before you get to this episode!

This episode's news:
https://www.burnabynow.com/highlights/semi-truck-driver-stuck-in-marina-followed-gps-down-a-bc-boat-ramp-8670336

Heritage Minute:
https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/avro-arrow

Shawinigan Moments is written and recorded on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō (Stolo), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) first nations in what is otherwise called Vancouver.

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