https://evelazarus.com/canadas-first-parachute-drop-was-at-vancouvers-hastings-park/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://evelazarus.com/canadas-first-parachute-drop-was-at-vancouvers-hastings-park/#comment-3242 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 03:08:14 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=3983#comment-3242 Hi. I have two postcards of Philip Parmalee sent by spectators the day after the first parachute jump, and on one of them the sender describes seeing the event the day before, so I have studied the event. Reading the 1939 and 1954 accounts written by Canadian aviation historian Frank Ellis, the answer is that the plane took off from Hastings Park, the plane circled over Burrard Inlet, and the parachutist then jumped out of the plane above the water (or possibly just over the North shore). On the next day, the program was repeated, and the parachutist made a bull’s-eye in his Hastings Park.

]]> https://evelazarus.com/canadas-first-parachute-drop-was-at-vancouvers-hastings-park/#comment-1471 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:10:50 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=3983#comment-1471 So I don’t understand why they say the jump was at Hastings Park when he landed on the North Shore?!?! Unbelievable that he simply had to hold onto the bar that was attached to the parachute. What a daredevil! Sad end to his life only one week later.

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