Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, 35, second ranking Canadian ace (52 enemy planes officially credited out of 68 shot down); when his new plane crashed in a test flight at Rockliffe Airdrome, Ottawa...
Last week the flyer thus described in his official citation for the Victoria Cross- Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, second-ranking Canadian Air Force ace-ascended again, at Rockcliffe Airdrome, Ottawa. Instead of enemies aloft he had an empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having...
...Ottawa. They started at Confederation Park. Along the snow-packed smoothness, like porcelain, of the Driveway to Dow's Lake, then along Carling Avenue to Richmond Road, left at Bell's Corners to Fallowfield and from Fallowfield home, over a back road to the Prescott Highway, and so to Dow's Lake again, and the finish line. Seven teams jogged along, started by the pistol of His Excellency, Viscount Willingdon. Not long ago the Canadian Government encouraged dog-team races because dog teams were the only freight haulers of the northern wilderness after October, an important factor in territorial expansion...
...Indians much more handily than the first encounter a little more than a week ago. The Big Green may have been handicapped by the change from natural to artificial ice but Harvard, on the other hand, was stronger than in the initial clash. Giddens had returned, and although the Ottawa ace made no spectacular individual plays, he added tremendously to the offensive cause and gave Coach Stubbs opportunity to send two practically balanced forward trios at the shaky Dartmouth defense. The Crimson mentor, went through with his proposed lineup switch, moreover, and shifted Cross up to the starting trio thus...
...Ottawa Car Mfg. Co. (Avro-Avians), at Ottawa...