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Western Canada Airways

When "Doc" Oaks left Patricia Airway and Exploration towards the end of 1926, it was to join James A. Richardson in the formation of a new and well established aviation company at Winnipeg. Western Canada Airways, as the new company became known, intended to fly services out of Sious Lookout into the Red Lake.

A wilderness tent serves as a distribution point for the freight
Western Canada Airways ferried to the Red Lake gold fields in 1927.
Photo: The Bush Pilots | Time-Life Books | 1983.