Santa Claus arrives in a biplane!

This newspaper clipping shows the American aviator Cecil Peoli landing his Baldwin biplane in Montreal’s Fletcher’s Field in 1913.
Tragically, Peoli had learned to fly only one year earlier but died in an aviation accident only 2 years later after his landing in Montreal.

Source: Newspaper clipping (Daily Star, Dec.9th, 1913) held at BANQ Archives.

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