JOHN A. D. MCCURDY
1886-1961
AKA John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
  
 
Silver Dart
  
 
John A. D. McCurdy
At Controls of Silver Dart, c. 1909.
Photo from the City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 79
  

 
   
  Biography John McCurdy
in
Florida		 Resources  

 
 
 
  John McCurdy continued in aviation for many years, but gave up flying in 1916 when his eyesight began to weaken. He was appointed lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 1947. McCurdy died in a Montreal hospital on June 25, 1961, at the age of 74.
From CONTACT
The Story of the Early Birds
by Henry Serrano Villard
  

 
 
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