The Chapter is dedicated, in particular, to the History of Aviation in Nova Scotia and honours, in name, the Silver Dart Flying Machine. On February 23, 1909, the Silver Dart, piloted by Mr Douglas McCurdy, made the first flight in the British Empire.

The Silver Dart flew a distance of approximately one-half mile at an altitude of about thirty feet above the ice on Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia. Douglas McCurdy later became the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1947-1952).