The Hollinger Ungava Transport company was formed just after WW2 to supply remote locations in Labrador where mining operations were opening up the province. Airfields were primitive (usually brand new and cut out of the woods) and the transport company used pretty much any plane they could find including this WorldWide Airways-owned Lancaster Mk1 tanker CF-GBA which crashed while landing at Menihek, Labrador with 3250 gallons of fuel on board. Below is the remains. The crew escaped. More here.
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| Larry Milberry, Aviation in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1979 |
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