Comments on: The Flying Seven and the Cambie Street Rocket Ship https://evelazarus.com/the-flying-seven-and-the-cambie-street-rocket-ship/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:46:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: James https://evelazarus.com/the-flying-seven-and-the-cambie-street-rocket-ship/#comment-8578 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:14:36 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=9792#comment-8578 Yes David Gibson that is the same family. I attended Eric Hamber with Juliana Trasolini and they are also neighbours at Point Roberts on Edwards Drive.
The float pix is crazy. How many more out there I wonder. Again Iament the end of events like the PNE Parade.
And holy Buck Rogers on the rocket ship. That futuristic design was incorporated in cars. Cadillac in particular with the fins models with taillights rocket shaped in red of course.

]]> By: Ken Cowan https://evelazarus.com/the-flying-seven-and-the-cambie-street-rocket-ship/#comment-6415 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:01:24 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=9792#comment-6415 Always interesting to see old photos of my grandmother (by marriage), Elianne.

]]> By: Janet Nicol https://evelazarus.com/the-flying-seven-and-the-cambie-street-rocket-ship/#comment-5153 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 02:50:41 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=9792#comment-5153 Eve – If this is the same ‘Margaret Rutledge’ (you have it as Rutledge) – check out the BC Labour Heritage Centre video clip (3 minutes) about Margaret and her flying career. Google search by her name and the BCLHC and the link should come up. The clip is one of 30, part of the Working People series frequently aired on Knowledge Network.

]]> By: Maurice Guibord https://evelazarus.com/the-flying-seven-and-the-cambie-street-rocket-ship/#comment-5151 Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:59:46 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=9792#comment-5151 The Italian community has published a lot on Tosca Trassolini, and we researched the two French-Canadian women who were members of The Flying Seven, Alma Gilbert (née Gaudreau) and Élianne Schlageter (née Roberge). Élianne was born in Prince Rupert in 1909. When she obtained her pilot’s licence in 1936, she was one of only four women in Canada with this licence. Margaret Fane of the Flying Seven was also one of these four women. Élianne is buried in the Abbey Mausoleum in Burnaby. Rose-Alma was born in 1895 near Rimouski, QC, one of 14 children. She obtained a private pilot’s licence. For more info one these two Francophones, visit our virtual exhibition on them athttp://www.shfcb.ca/aviatrices-bienvenue
Maurice Guibord, Société historique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, president@shfcb.ca

]]> By: Angus McIntyre https://evelazarus.com/the-flying-seven-and-the-cambie-street-rocket-ship/#comment-5150 Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:01:38 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=9792#comment-5150 A word used in earlier days to describe a female pilot was “aviatrix”, pronounced ā-vē-ˈā-triks. I flew to Winnipeg just before Christmas, and our Air Canada flight was piloted by an aviatrix, if I can re-introduce that word.

I remember when the rocket was at the old airport, now the South Terminal, in the 1960s, and was indeed very rusty but still had that Buck Rogers look to it. I believe it was mounted on an electrical substation. It was something that definitely did not have a place at the new airport when it opened in 1968.

I had never seen the photo of the rocket in the 1936 PNE Parade. It seems odd that a farm tractor is pulling such a great Moderne design. A streamlined 1936 Chrysler Airflow Imperial automobile towing the float would have looked much better.

]]> By: David Gibson https://evelazarus.com/the-flying-seven-and-the-cambie-street-rocket-ship/#comment-5149 Sat, 11 Jan 2020 18:32:55 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=9792#comment-5149 Great stories, as usual. I didn’t know about the first appearance of the rocket ship as a PNE Parade float. Note: There weren’t;t many Trsolini families in Vancouver then. Did one of them go on to found a successful paving company that did business all over?

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