R100 in Canada by Countryman. Barry,

Hard back book with pictorial dust jacket, 128 pages, 119 chapters profusely illustrated with B/W plates, appendices, bibliography.

A rigid airship's reasonably high speed, endurance and weight-carrying capacity for freight and passengers led Britain to consider its use for commerce and communications with India, Australia and South Africa after World War I.
Lord Thomson of Cardington and Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond's airship policy in 1924 was based on the scientifically-sound construction of the R100 and the R101 experimen-tal airships nearly twice the size of any previous vessel. Two years later, against a background of increasing constitutional independence from Britain and no earlier interest, Canada agreed at the Imperial Conference to support the airship program by erecting a mooring mast in the Maritimes.
This is the story of the dominion's role in that program, our interest in American airship development, the building of our first international airport and the carefully planned and long-awaited visit of the R100 to Montreal in the summer of 1930.