Air Canada
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TCE Standar
Air Canada was incorporated as Trans-Canada Air Lines by an Act of Parliament on 10 April 1937 to provide a publicly owned air transportation service. Stock was vested in Canadian National Railways. Scheduled operations commenced on 1 September 1937 when passenger and mail service was inaugurated between Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, Washington. Transcontinental passenger and mail service was introduced on 1 April 1939 from Montréal/Toronto to Vancouver via Ottawa, North Bay, Kapuskasing, Winnipeg, Regina, Lethbridge and Edmonton routes with the fleet of Lockheed L10As and 14.08s.
The name of the airline was changed by an Act of Parliament from
TRANS-CANADA AIRLINES to Air Canada in 1964.
Under the Air Canada Act of 1977, the airline's charter was brought up to date.
The common shares passed from CNR to the Crown and the company was made subject to the jurisdiction of the Canadian Transport Commission.
In 1987 the airline operated internal trunk services, routes across the Atlantic to Glasgow, Manchester, London, Paris, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Munich, Geneva and Frankfurt, Bombay and Singapore, and cargo flights to Shannon and Brussels. Air Canada also extensively served the US and the Caribbean. The operational fleet was 113 aircraft, including 5 Boeing 747, 16 L-1011, 36 Boeing 727 and 14 Boeing 767.
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