CALL NUMBER: T3182:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harold Davenport discusses: immigration to Canada, 1915; south Vancouver, 1915-19; childhood and youth in south Vancouver; began work for Jericho Beach Air Station in 1923; worked as a flight; engineer/mechanic; history of the Jericho Beach Air Station; Davenport's first flight and forced landing. Description of the Air Station, ca. 1923. Personnel. Description of early aircraft, especially HS2L flying boat. Physical layout of the station. Military competitions. Early flights on the coast of British Columbia. TRACK 2: Harold Davenport: Jericho Beach Air Station personnel, ca. 1923; equipment at the air station; the station's pigeon loft; more description of the Curtis Wright HS2L flying boat. The first flight from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, July 1923. Description of the trip. Great interest shown in aircraft. Fisheries patrols in the 1920s. Discussion of fishermen's offences and the use of aircraft to patrol the Upper Coast area. Being forced down on the first flight to the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1923. CALL NUMBER: T3182:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1923-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harold Davenport discusses: flying in the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1923; forced landings and engine problems in the Prince Rupert area; more on the Queen Charlotte Islands; inspection of Junkers aircraft in Hazleton, 1923; radio communications around Prince Rupert, 1924; crash landing in Milbanke Sound, 1924. TRACK 2: Harold Davenport: conclusion of the air crash story; storm damage to flying boats; around-the-world flights, 1924; formation of Pacific Airways Limited, 1926; the training of pilots in the 1920s; flying anecdotes, 1920s; flying on the upper coast; makeshift repairs to aircraft and aircraft engines. CALL NUMBER: T3182:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1924-1941 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Davenport's comments on early around-the-world flights. Early aerial photography in British Columbia, 1920s. Visiting Namu, 1926. Western Canada Airways buys Pacific Airways, 1928. Description of various aircraft in the late 1920s. Anecdotes about air crashes, late 1920s. Staff of Western Canada Airways, Swanson Bay, 1928. Radio communications. Anecdotes about radio communications. More on Swanson Bay. Fatal air crash near Butedale, late 1920s. TRACK 2: Description of Swanson Bay. Davenport opens Aircraft Service of British Columbia at Vancouver Airport, 1929. Minoru Park Airport, Richmond, B.C.. Davenport's great faith in flying boats. Reservations about modern aircraft. Went to Whitehorse to work for White Pass and Yukon Route, 1936-41. Flying in the Yukon. Anecdotes about early pilots. Gliding at Vancouver Airport, 1930s. Anecdote about flying B.C. Provincial Police to Anyox to quell riot, 1933. CALL NUMBER: T3182:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1933-1967 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of the story of Anyox, B.C., strike and riot, 1933. Inspection discovering structural damage to the aircraft, 1933. Davenport went to Whitehorse, Yukon, to work for White Pass and Yukon Route, 1936. Work for WP&YR Air Division, 1936-41. Established repair and maintenance in Whitehorse. Description of Whitehorse, late 1930s. Transportation in the Yukon. Boats on the Yukon River. Many pilots killed in air crashes. Anecdote about sick Indian child. TRACK 2: More on sick Indian child. Superstitions about the bad luck of religious men. More on the development of air travel in the Yukon. Instrument flight. Davenport observed large meteorite, 1938. Japanese goodwill flight to Whitehorse, 1938. Anecdotes about flying. Davenport's brush with 'gold fever'. Davenport's later career in aviation: Pan American Airways, CP Air, Department of Transport as an inspector. Felt badly used by CP Air. Established maintenance schools. Davenport spent 45 years in field of aviation in Canada. (End of interview)