Editing Air Canada (section)

===Trans-Canada Air Lines (1937–1965)===
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Air Canada's predecessor, [[Trans-Canada Air Lines]] (TCA), was created by federal legislation as a subsidiary of [[Canadian National Railway]] (CNR) on 11 April 1937.<ref name=CBCHist /><ref name=aircanadatimeline>{{cite web|url=http://moments.aircanada.com/timeline/|title=Timeline – Air Canada's 80th Anniversary|website=moments.aircanada.com|access-date=25 February 2017|archive-date=27 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227182709/http://moments.aircanada.com/timeline|url-status=dead}}</ref> The newly created [[Transport Canada|Department of Transport]] under [[Minister of Transport (Canada)|Minister]] [[C. D. Howe]] desired an airline under government control to link cities on the Atlantic coast to those on the Pacific coast. Using $5&nbsp;million in Crown seed money, two [[Lockheed Model 10 Electra]]s and one [[Stearman Aircraft|Boeing Stearman]] biplane were purchased from [[Canadian Airways]]<ref name="CBC timeline">{{cite news | title=Indepth: Air Canada Timeline | date=20 June 2005 | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aircanada/timeline.html | publisher=[[CBC News]] | access-date=4 April 2009 | url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421035635/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aircanada/timeline.html |archive-date=21 April 2006}}</ref> and experienced airline executives from [[United Airlines]] and [[American Airlines]] were brought in.<ref name=CBCHist>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aircanada/history.html | title=Air Canada History | publisher=[[CBC News]] | date=14 May 2004 | access-date=4 April 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090331113445/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aircanada/history.html| archive-date= 31 March 2009| url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Malton Airport 1939 - TCA Lockheed Electra 14H2s (14Hs).jpg|thumb|left|A [[Trans-Canada Air Lines|TCA]] [[Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra]] at [[Malton Airport]], 1939]]
Passenger flights began on 1 September 1937, with an Electra carrying two passengers and mail from [[Vancouver]] to [[Seattle]], a $14.20 round trip,<ref name=CBCHist /> and, on 1 July 1938, TCA hired its first flight attendants.<ref name=makingTCA>Mills, Albert J, Mills, Jean Helms. ''Masculinity and the Making of Trans-Canada Air Lines, 1937–1940: A Feminist Poststructuralist Account''. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, March 2006. [http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090628195147/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3981/is_200603/ai_n17179192/pg_3 findarticles.com] Date accessed: 18 October 2007</ref> Transcontinental routes from Montreal to Vancouver began on 1 April 1939, using 12 [[Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra]]s and six [[Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar]]s.<ref name="CBC timeline"/> By January 1940, the airline had grown to about 579 employees.<ref name=makingTCA/>

[[Canadian Pacific Airlines]] (CP Air) suggested in 1942 a merger with TCA. Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] rejected the proposal and introduced legislation regulating TCA as the only airline in Canada allowed to provide transcontinental flights. With the increase in air travel after [[World War II]], CP Air was granted one coast-to-coast flight and a few international routes.<ref name=CBCHist />

Originally headquartered in [[Winnipeg]], also the site of its national maintenance base, the federal government moved TCA's headquarters to [[Montreal]] in 1949; the maintenance base would later also move east. With the development of the [[ReserVec]] in 1953, TCA became the first airline in the world to use a [[computer reservation system]] with remote terminals.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vardalas |first=John |title=From DATAR to the FP-6000 |url=https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/fp6000/fp6000_datar.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404053248/http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/fp6000/fp6000_datar.html |archive-date=4 April 2019 |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=[[IEEE]]}}</ref><ref name=awst>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.atwonline.com/magazine/article.html?articleID=2051|title=Air Canada: Celebrating 70 Years of Leadership|magazine=Aviation Week & Space Technology|access-date=11 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115010750/http://atwonline.com/magazine/article.html?articleID=2051|archive-date=15 January 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>