American Airlines Crash, Lawrence Station, Ontario
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives168840
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1941
- Accession Number
- 2018-13
- Storage Location
- Box 216, File 3 1
- R11 S4 Sh5 B2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2018-13
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- Box 216, File 3 1
- R11 S4 Sh5 B2
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1941
- Publication
- Posted on Facebook and Twitter as an #ElginPlaces feature: February 9, 2022.
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 16.5 x 24 cm
- History / Biographical
- According to an article published in the St. Thomas Times Journal, October 31, 1941, p. 1, "Canada's worst aviation disaster" occurred when an American Airlines Douglas DC-3 transport plane crashed just after 10 P.M. on October 30, 1941 in a field near Shedden, Ontario, just east of Lawrence Station, 15 miles northwest of St. Thomas. The plane was on a regularly scheduled flight between Buffalo and Detroit. All twenty people on board - 17 passengers and 3 crew - were killed. Wing Commander Douglas D. Joy, district inspector of civil aviation for Toronto District, was appointed to head a board of inquiry investigating the accident.
- Custodial History
- Len Sifton from the Sifton Funeral home, represented one of the funeral homes that helped in coordinating the retrieval and processing of the crash victims. Photographs were donated to the Elgin County Archives in October 2018.
- Scope and Content
- Sepia toned glossy print showing the wreckage of an American Airlines Douglas DC-3 transport plane that crashed near Shedden, Ontario on October 30, 1941, killing twenty people. Shows the plane's fuselage and tail.
- Name Access
- Shedden (Ont.)
- Southwold (Ont. : Township)
- Subject Access
- Air Disasters
- Website / Street View Notes
- Link directs to a Facebook post featuring the image.
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