1840: A Pioneering Flight in the Skies Above Canada — Transportation History

August 10, 1840 American aeronaut Louis Anselm Lauriat traveled in his hydrogen balloon Star of the East in the skies above the present-day Canadian province of New Brunswick. This excursion was the first piloted flight in Canada. At that time, New Brunswick was a British colony; in 1867, it became one of the four original […]

1840: A Pioneering Flight in the Skies Above Canada — Transportation History