It was inhabited by about 45, 000 Native Americans and 4, 000 traders, mostly French and British – although both groups included the Metis, a sizeable group descended from Native women married to European or Canadian traders who established a unique culture that ruled the Upper Midwest for more than a century.

The Mountain Men, like the Metis employees of the Canadian fur companies, adopted Indian ways and many of them married Native American women.

) Canadian Metis political figure

The CPR went ahead and was nearly completed in 1885 when the North West Rebellion, led by Louis Riel, broke out between Metis and First Nations groups and the Canadian government.

The Batoche area is where Louis Riel led his Metis people in an armed uprising against the Canadian government in 1885.

It is most famous as the site of the Battle of Fish Creek during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 between General Frederick Middleton of the Canadian Militia and Gabriel Dumont, adjutant general of the Metis Provisional Government of Saskatchewan.

It was the end point of the Carlton Trail, the main overland route for Metis freighters between the Red River Colony and the west and an important stop on the York Factory Express route between London, via Hudson Bay, and Fort Vancouver in the Columbia District.

Using his meagre resources, Douglas created the Victoria Voltigeurs, Vancouver Island's first militia, using money from the Company and composed of Metis and French-Canadians in the company's service.

* Mike Lee – Carrier Representative for TransPacific Airlines to Norton Aircraft.

* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

* 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.

His government also made the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a crown corporation in 1936, created Trans-Canada Airlines ( the precursor to Air Canada ) in 1937, and formed the National Film Board of Canada in 1939.

** Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.

** Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 crashes while landing at Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing 64 of 72 persons on board.

Shortly after the takeover, Canadair began delivering its new Canadair North Star ( a version of the DC-4 ), and was able to deliver aircraft to Trans-Canada Airlines, Canadian Pacific Airlines and British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) well in advance of their contracted delivery times.

In 1956, the airline purchased Canadian airline Colonial Airlines, which gave the airline their first service to Canada.

* Porter Airlines, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto

* On February 7, 1968, a Canadian Pacific Airlines Boeing 707 overran a runway, and hit a building, while landing in heavy fog, killing one crew member.

* On October 19, 1995, a Canadian Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aborted takeoff on runway 26 ( now 26L ) two seconds after the V < sub > 1 </ sub > call.

Donald J. Carty, ( born 1946 ) is a Canadian businessman who serves as chairman of Virgin America and Porter Airlines.

Commercial realities dictated exceptions, however, as few airlines could risk missing out on a superior product: American Airlines ordered the pioneering Comet ( but later cancelled when the Comet ran into fatigue problems ), Canadian, British and European airlines could not ignore the better operating economics of the Boeing 707 and the DC-8, while some American airlines ordered the Caravelle.

* Canadian Airlines, IATA airline code CP

* Canadian Pacific Airlines, known at one time as CP Air

SkyWest Airlines is headquartered in St. George, Utah, USA, flying to 160 cities, in 38 States, Washington D. C., 5 Canadian Provinces and 2 cities in Mexico.

Canadian Airlines International Ltd. ( styled as Canadi > n Airlines ) was a Canadian airline that operated from 1987 until 2001.

Canadian Airlines served 105 destinations in Canada, more than any other airline.

Canadian Airlines was also a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance.

Canadian Airlines was headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, and had revenue of approximately $ 3 billion at the end of 1999.

Canadian Airlines International was the principal subsidiary of its parent company Canadian Airlines Corporation.

* 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U. S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.

The airline CCM Airlines has its head office on the grounds of Ajaccio – Campo dell ' Oro Airport ( Napoleon Bonaparte Airport ).

A new Belgian airline named SN Brussels Airlines was subsequently founded by business man Etienne Davignon.

In 2009, Brussels Airlines was taken over by German airline Lufthansa.

The communist-era state airline, Balkan Airlines, was replaced by Bulgaria Air, for which a private owner was to be selected from among bidders by the end of 2006.

* Skymark Airlines ' IATA airline code

* Capital Airlines ( UK ), an airline operating from the UK from 1987 to 1992

TACV Cabo Verde Airlines, the national airline, flies once a week from Boston Logan International Airport to Praia International Airport at Praia Santiago island.

* CPD is the ICAO airline designator for Capital Airlines Limited ( Kenya )

* Nationwide Airlines ( IATA airline designator CE ; based in South Africa )

However, the government-owned airline, Ethiopian Airlines, is excellent.

In 2005, Ghana International Airlines ( GIA ) began services as the new national airline of Ghana.

* Sky Georgia, formerly Georgian National Airlines, an airline based in Tbilisi, Georgia

Airlines based in Ireland include Aer Lingus ( the former national airline of the Republic of Ireland ), Ryanair, Aer Arann and CityJet.

ICAO also assigns 3-letter airline codes ( vs. the more-familiar 2-letter IATA codes — for example, UAL vs. UA for United Airlines ).

* 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.

The official airline of Malaysia is Malaysia Airlines, providing international and domestic air service alongside two other carriers.

* 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila ( from Nielson Field ) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.

* Midway Airlines ( ML ) IATA airline designator

* Monarch Airlines, IATA code for this UK airline

* Monarch Airlines, UK airline

* 2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.

** Republic Airlines ( 1979-1986 ), a defunct airline purchased by Northwest Airlines that ceased operating in 1986