Located near the Town Hall
Photographed on 4 June 2003.
Photographed on 4 June 2003.
Photographed on 4 June 2003.
The date, July 7, 1919, on this metal plaque is wrong.
The Handey-Page aircraft was forced to land in Parrsboro
on Saturday, July 5, 1919. When this plaque was made
c.1962, four decades after the event, the date likely was
obtained from a newspaper clipping in an old scrapook.
Consider the publishing schedule of a daily newspaper in
Nova Scotia at the time (for morning papers, not much
different from today) – start the press run in the late evening
to get papers into the overnight distribution system in time
for delivery to subscribers near and far to receive their copies
around breakfast time. The print run would be completed
well before dawn. That is, daily newspapers published in
Nova Scotia that Saturday would have been printed before
the crash happened. The plane crashed about dawn on
Saturday, July 5th. There were no Sunday newspapers.
The earliest newspaper report (in Nova Scotia) would
appear in the Monday papers. That old (in 1962)
clipping would have been dated Monday, July 7th.
No doubt that is the origin of this plaque mistake.
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In 2005, the Parrsboro Town Council
decided to demolish this cairn, to make way for planned improvements. The plaque was salvaged and will be refurbished and placed on public display in a new location. |
Photographed on 21 November 2005
Photographed on 21 November 2005
Photographed on 21 November 2005
Front page, New York Times, 6 July 1919
The navigator's seat from the "Atlantic" is on display at
the Ottawa House By-The-Sea Museum, near Parrsboro
Links to Relevant Websites
The Handley–Page Flyer, Atlantic
Fabric and Postcard from the Parrsboro Nova Scotia Handley Page
Handley Page V/1500 airplane
The Handley Page
Parrsboro Introduction
Air Commodore H.G. Brackley
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Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries Inc., New York
First uploaded to the WWW: 2003 November 03
Added Handley-Page photograph: 2004 April 14
New photographs installed: 2005 November 22
Added New York Times clipping: 2008 February 07
Latest update: 2013 November 18