J A D (John Alexander Douglas) McCurdy was the first man to fly in Canada, in his Silver Dart on 23-February-1909. The plane was built as part of the program of the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), a group organized by Alexander Graham Bell. I remember reading in an old National Geographic about a reproduction of the Silver Dart that flew in 1959.
The 1910 photo comes from the Library of Congress' wonderful American Memory site (http://memory.loc.gov/). DN-0056126, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society.
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