J.A.D. McCurdy

and the Silver Dart: Canada's 'First Aerial Navigator'

McCurdy informs the Secretary that the first flight by a British subject was not over Great Britain on 2 May 1909 but his flight at Baddeck on 23 February 1909.

Date: 26 September 1955

Reference: J.A.D. McCurdy Nova Scotia Archives 2007-058 vol. 001 no. 21