Transporation Ticket

CultureCanada

Date1947

Credit LineMaritime Central Airways

Object numberHF.2022.4.1

DescriptionA rectangular shaped, paper ticket for a Maritime Central Airways flight between Moncton, New Brunswick, to Summerside, Prince Edward Island for March 19th, 1947. The ticket has a boarder of two parallel lines, one thick and one thin, on both the front and back. In the top left corner is the Maritime Central Airways logo –a circle which with “Maritime Central Airways Limited” around the circumference with the letters “MCA” at the center, all within a maple leaf. The top half of the ticket includes information on the cost: $5, tax: $0.75, and total: $7.75 as well as the departure and arrival information. Bottom half includes “Air Passage Contract” information in small print which continues on the top half of the reverse side and includes sections on “Limits”, “Stop-Overs”, “Revocables”, “Not Transferable” “Refunds”, “Assumption of Risk”, “Uncompensation Flight”, “Delays”, Baggage”, “Notice and Suit”, and “Regulations”. “Excess Baggage and Valuation Collection” is location on the bottom half of the reverse which includes the sections “Excess Pounds”, “Excess Valuation”, and “Agent”.

Narrative

Maritime Central Airways (MCA) was co-founded in 1941 by Carl Burke of Charlottetown, PEI. A pilot himself, Burke met MCA co-founder Josiah Anderson while working for Canadian Airways in Moncton in the late 1930s. The company began with fleet of two aircrafts and operated cargo and passenger flights with service to Charlottetown, PEI, Saint John and Moncton, New Brunswick. MCA expanded to Newfoundland and Labrador with a subsidiary company, Newfoundland Airways Limited which operated from 1948-1951. By the 1960s, MCA was one of the largest airlines in Canada. Burke sold MCA in 1963 to Eastern Provincial.

This ticket is from MCA's first decade of operation. It is a one-way ticket from Moncton, NB, to Charlottetown, PEI, and cost $5.75, taxes included.