First Air Crossing of the Canadian Rockies / Première traversée des Rocheuses en avion

On August 7, 1919, Captain E.C. Hoy made the first air crossing of the Canadian Rockies, flying from Vancouver over Vernon, Grand Forks, Cranbrook, and through Crawford Pass in a Canadian-built Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny." With his flying altitude limited to 7,000 feet by an extra fuel load, he took off from old Minoru Park Race Track on Lulu Island at 4:14 AM, maneuvered between towering peaks and barely cleared heights of land along the way, reached Lethbridge at 6:22 pm to complete the history-making part of the flight, and then continued on to Calgary, landing at 8:55pm.

Alberta · Canada