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American Airlines Crash, Shedden Ontario
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1941
- Accession Number
- 2005-10
- Storage Location
- C3 Sh5 B4 F3
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- P 74
- Accession Number
- 2005-10
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C3 Sh5 B4 F3
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1941
- Publication
- Published in "Harvest of Memories: Elgin's History Through a Photographer's Lens-Volume II" on page 104.
- Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal Bygone Days feature, and on the Archives flickr site, May 23, 2014: https://www.flickr.com/photos/elgincountyarchives/14090369690/in/photostream/.
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 20 x 25 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
- Transferred from the collection of the London Room, London Public Library (reference number PG F 457). Donated to the London Room by Florence Bradshaw, April 23, 1993.
- 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, military and civilian investigators, armed military personnel in uniform guarding the site, and blankets covering what may be stretchers bearing bodies.
- Name Access
- Shedden (Ont.)
- Southwold (Ont. : Township)
- Subject Access
- Air Disasters
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