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Diefenbaker cancels Avro Arrow project
February 19,1959 CBC Radio Digital Archives
Shocking Parliament and Avro emplyees, Diefenbaker announces the Arrow and Iroquois engine programs are cancelled immediately.
Avro workers react to massive layoffs
CBC Radio Digital ArchivesShock. Disbelief. Anger. Despair. These are the reactions of the 14,525 Avro workers who found themselves unemployed en masse on Black Friday.
John Diefenbaker defends his Avro Arrow Decision
March 25, 1964 CBC Player Video Digital Archives
CBC "The Arrow" The Movie
February 20,1959 - The Diefenbaker government announced the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow fighter aircraft project.
"Some people talk about courage. Well, we took a stand in reference to the 'Arrow.' No one wanted to take that stand.... As I look back on it, I think it was one of the decisions that was right.
Here was an instrument beautiful in appearance, powerful, a tribute to Canadian production....
This instrument that was otherwise beautiful, magnificent in its concept, would have contributed little, in the changing order of things, to our national defence."
Canadian History
February 20, 1959
