Artists Drawing. Avro Arrow*
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Avro Arrows ordered destroyed after cancellation, being dismantled at Downsview. Photo Public Domain
Canadian History
Feb 20,1959
Canadian Designed Avro Arrow Fighter Aircraft Program Cancelled
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
- House of Commons,
January 24, 1959
"Some people talk about courage. Well, we took a stand in reference to the 'Arrow.' No one wanted to take that stand.... As I look back on it, I think it was one of the decisions that was right.
Here was an instrument beautiful in appearance, powerful, a tribute to Canadian production....
This instrument that was otherwise beautiful, magnificent in its concept, would have contributed little, in the changing order of things, to our national defence."
Prime Minister Diefenbaker*
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Diefenbaker cancels Avro Arrow project
February 19,1959 CBC Radio Digital Archives
Shocking Parliament and Avro emplyees, Diefenbaker announces the Arrow and Iroquois engine programs are cancelled immediately.
Avro workers react to massive layoffs CBC Radio Digital Archives
Shock. Disbelief. Anger. Despair. These are the reactions of the 14,525 Avro workers who found themselves unemployed en masse on Black Friday.
John Diefenbaker defends his Avro Arrow Decision March 25, 1964 CBC Player Video Digital Archives
CBC "The Arrow" The Movie