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 She left her husband and 10 year old son at home. \\ She left her husband and 10 year old son at home. \\
 It was a white twin engined Piper Navajo. It was not found for 4 years, until Aug 1994. \\ It was a white twin engined Piper Navajo. It was not found for 4 years, until Aug 1994. \\
-Dave Newman, an Okanagan Helicopter pilot, spotted the wreckage and identified it by a binder inside, 24 miles NW of Terrace, near the Alaska border.+Murray Hamer called me Mar 21,2026, and told me he was flying with Dave Newman's son working on a BC Forestry job, when Murray spotted the white wings of the plane. \\ 
 +Dave Newman, an Okanagan Helicopter pilot, with his son, later reached the wreckage and identified it by a binder inside, 24 miles NW of Terrace, near the Alaska border.
  
 I flew with Max once into Greenville, landing on the Nass River, it was high water, and logs as big as houses were floating past as we landed on floats. \\ I flew with Max once into Greenville, landing on the Nass River, it was high water, and logs as big as houses were floating past as we landed on floats. \\
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 Pat and his Father, mother etc, emigrated in 1908 Pat and his Father, mother etc, emigrated in 1908
  
 +**William James Dicks**- see accident below \\
 +b- May 3, 1934 Winnipeg MB \\
 +d- Sept 21, 1964 Trapper Lake BC \\
 +buried in Winnipeg MB
 +
 +**David Napoleon LaCasse**- see accident below \\
 +b- Apr 27, 1924 North Vancouver BC \\
 +d- Dec 13, 1968 near Shaft Creek, BC \\
 +son of Napoleon LcCasse, b- Quebec, and Florence Whibley, b- England \\
 +
 +**Walter Harms** Flew with TPA, May 1972- May 1974 \\
 +Per message from his daughter, Kathy Harms,Nov 2025, Her dad flew for Spartan Explorations, Gateway Aviation (Fort Smith), and Buffalo Airways (Fort Smith) before moving to TPA \\
 ==== Engineers ==== ==== Engineers ====
   * Bill Ross   * Bill Ross
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 CF-PWH, DC3, c/n 2198, see link below CF-PWH, DC3, c/n 2198, see link below
  
-==== Company had 6 accidents, with 11 fatalities ====+==== Company had 8 accidents, with 13 fatalities ====
  
 C-FRWH, DeHavilland DHC-3, Otter, c/n 445 \\ C-FRWH, DeHavilland DHC-3, Otter, c/n 445 \\
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 {{:bc:aviation:airlines:ripley_believe_it_or_not.jpg?400|}} \\ {{:bc:aviation:airlines:ripley_believe_it_or_not.jpg?400|}} \\
 From McRae Collection From McRae Collection
 +
 +Another Accident I did not find obviously in my research. \\
 +"My name is Kathleen Rae, my father was **William Dicks** and he was a pilot who also worked for Trans Provincial Airlines, and his plane crashed Sept 21, 1964."
 +
 +and another from Maggie Baxter Apr 29, 2020 \\
 +**David LaCasse** flying an Otter for TPA on December 13 1968 crashed and died at Schaft Creek (near Stewart); passenger survived.
 +Write  up is in  Omenica Herald Dec 18 1968 front page. And death cert is on BC Vital Stats. \\
 +
  
 **Company went into receivership on March 19, 1993.** **Company went into receivership on March 19, 1993.**
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 Photos courtesy Brian Wolfe, Ladysmith BC Photos courtesy Brian Wolfe, Ladysmith BC
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