Eastern Provincial Airways, also known as EPA, was the backbone of air travel in Eastern Canada in the 1970s. At its peak, the carrier operated jet service connecting many communities that today only have service from 18-seat turboprops. The airline traces its history from Maritime Central Airways (MCA) from 1961. They merged with CP Air to form Canadian Pacific Airlines in 1986.
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Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or provincial:
“All the morning we had heard the sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by, filling the whole air, that of the sea dashing against the land, heard several miles inland. Instead of having a dog to growl before your door, to have an Atlantic Ocean to growl for a whole Cape!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)