Video Viewport

This area provides a window onto the world of internet video platforms – YouTube and Vimeo, for example – that host user-uploaded videos featuring Canadian aviation history content. The selections will change on occasion depending on interest (or not!) and site performance impact (so far, so good).

While you are here, we're looking for old found footage, including crown copyright material now in the public domain, or documentary productions that use historical aviation footage with either musical or narration.

If you are aware of any related videos already posted, or have videos to post, please get in touch. We might want to showcase them here. Feel free to contact the webmaster with details.

CBC's Klahanie - "The Stranny"

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Stu Phillips and Hugh Mann talk about their experiences flying the Supermarine Stranraer flying boat on the west coast of BC.

Klahanie, a Chinook word for "the great outdoors", was the title of a half-hour program on the wilderness and outdoor activities, with an accent on conservation. The object of the program was to take viewers to see some of the flora and fauna of some of the most beautiful and inaccessible parts of the world.

A Hurricane Comes Home – Videos

By John Chalmers
For the Calgary Mosquito Society
The first video is a must-see of the completion ceremony when the Hurricane was unveiled on November 6, with speakers Brian Desjardins, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, pilot Gordon Hill and Richard de Boer.
The second video features comments by Byron Reynolds, Gordon Hill in flying the aircraft, history of the Mosquito Society and some footage of the Restoration Process.

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Aviators of Hudson Strait

Produced by the
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Written and Produced by William Weitraub
Location cameraman, George H. Valliquette (Fox News)
As described by the NFB, this 28 minute, 1973 documentary:

"… looks at early Canadian aviation through film footage shot by the Royal Canadian Air Force and the recollections of retired Air Vice-Marshal [AVM] Thomas A. Lawrence, leader of the 1927-28 aerial survey expedition to Ungava Bay and Hudson Strait. The formidable challenge of flying under Arctic conditions, the hazards faced and the emergencies solved, often with the help of Inuit, make an absorbing chapter of northern frontier history."
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AVM Lawrence served as technical advisor and co-narrator for the film, and a 1973 interview with him also features in the film. 
Aviators of Hudson Strait – ​provided by the National Film Board of Canada

The Canadair CT-114 Tutor

By Brad Gordanier
Polyus Studios
A well made video on Canadiar's Tutor. Unusual in that it goes beyond the Snowbirds-only approach many videographers have taken on this particular subject
Do you have an abiding interest in the Canadair CL-41 / CT-114 Tutor? Check out Bill Upton's thoroughly-illustrated CAHS Journal series, now available as an instant-download CAHS Journal Compendium digital (PDF) publication, featuring high-resolution graphics and fully searchable text. If only one or two aspects of this aircraft's long history are of interest, then the individual articles that make up the series are also available as individual PDFs, or as part of the Journal issues they were originally published in, as either print or digital editions.

RCAF Sea Hurricanes – 1942

Edited by Avialogs
original footage  source unknown
Some wonderfully preserved colour footage of a formation of Sea Hurricanes. If anyone has additional information please get in touch. Avialogs is a purveyor of an interesting array of historic aviation technical documentation.