I am obliged for the forbearance My excuse is that it clouded outside about 5.30pm and rain was anticipated so a quick Sunday evening up-and-down of the lawn with the mower was necessary before the heavens opened.

And yes, PWA were an early 737 operator, only had a couple at the time but this was one of the flights. After seeing off said relative we went up onto the observation deck of the then still relatively new terminal to look out, and although I don't recall the PWA 737 being visible, there was a Canadian Pacific DC8 still in the old livery and name, although the spectacular orange/red CP Air one had been around for several years, and alongside the first 737 I had ever seen, a United one ready for the hop down to Seattle. according to the UA schedule, which I had also taken from the check-in counter (as you might guess I had spent 5 minutes going along the row and getting all I could) it should have been a 727 flight, so an equipment sub (or the timetable not keeping up with things, as happened in the days of long lead times with printers).

The following year we went to Vancouver again, and that mining project up in Yellowknife was still in progress. I recall PWA had changed schedules a bit, the 737 now no longer went north of Yellowknife, but turned round there and came back, with a connecting Convair 640 onwards. In 1970 PWA still only ran to a few 737s, and the aircraft then did an extraordinary routing, it returned to Edmonton, and then Calgary, giving a late afternoon flight on PWA's shuttle between the two Alberta main cities. Then it turned round, did a northbound back to Edmonton, then turned again to do a second, early evening shuttle flight back to Calgary, and finally thence onwards to Kamloops and Vancouver. Good aircraft utilisation. But if you were booked through from Yellowknife to Vancouver, although I would expect to be put out for a few hours while it did the shuttle return, my uncle told me that you were actually allowed to stay on board for this up-and-down sightseeing tour of Alberta. It seemed most strange.