McCurdy in plane, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aviation pioneer John Alexander Douglas McCurdy at the controls of an aircraft. The City of Toronto archival notation reads: "Item consists of one photograph of a man sitting in an airplane. Information provided by a researcher indicates that the man is probably J.A.D. McCurdy in a bi-plane with 7-cylinder Gnome rotary engine, and that the event is probably either the Aviation Meet held at Donlands Farm, Todmorden Mills, August 3-5, 1911, or the Aviation Meet, Hamilton, July 27-29, 1911."