Article ID: CBB215404360

‘One-Day-Wide’ Canada: History, Geography, and Aerial Views at Trans Canada Air Lines, 1945-1955 (2018)

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This article shows how Trans Canada Air Lines (now Air Canada) navigated celebrating Canada’s geography while eliminating it using modern communications technologies in its midcentury public-facing material. TCA worked explicitly with modern and high-modern discourse of “space” and “time,” manipulating the historical and geographic imaginary to position itself as a natural part of the Canadian envirotechnical landscape. In so doing, TCA also self-fashioned as the gatekeeper of geographic experiences in the form of aerial views. By embracing a new technological system—aviation—and a new type of environment—the geographic imaginary—this article pushes the boundaries of envirotech and argues that the Canadian tendency towards both geographic and technological nationalism is, at its center, an envirotechnical relationship.

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Authors & Contributors
Dominic Colvert
Jordi Nadal
Abbott, Malcolm
Roberts, Maxwell
Sandro Fehr
Ovenden, Mark
Concepts
Aircraft; airplanes
Aircraft industry
Air transportation
Aeronautics; aviation
Airline industry
Technology
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Canada
Switzerland
South Africa
Japan
Germany
Institutions
Hispano-Suiza (firm)
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