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:
“From this elevation, just on the skirts of the clouds, we could overlook the country, west and south, for a hundred miles. There it was, the State of Maine, which we had seen on the map, but not much like that,—immeasurable forest for the sun to shine on, the eastern stuff we hear of in Massachusetts. No clearing, no house. It did not look as if a solitary traveler had cut so much as a walking-stick there.”
—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)