It was interesting reading the Odds ‘n’ Sods story “The San Antonio gamble” (T.N.M., Apr. 19/93). I wish to add that Capt. A.H. Farrington flew out the San Antonio mine’s first gold brick to the railhead at Lac du Bonnet, Man., on June 18, 1932, for refining at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa.
Capt. Farrington flew in the Air Force during both the First and Second World Wars. He also flew the first commercial air service in a Canadian gold rush, to Red Lake in northwestern Ontario, in 1926.
He had many other “firsts” in commercial aviation and was Canada’s oldest air mail pilot. He died March 4, 1993, at age 96 after a 44-year flying career of 10,000 hours or one million miles at a 100-m.p.h. average in piston-engined aircraft. He is buried in his hometown of Burford, Ont.
Donald Parrot
Thunder Bay, Ont.
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