Whistler Museum Acquires 1997 CT-133 Crash Recovery Photographs by Sergeant Edith Cuerrier

Key facts

• The Whistler Museum received photographs and correspondence from Sergeant Edith Cuerrier related to the August 1997 recovery of a CT-133 jet fuselage near Callaghan Lake.
• The CT-133 jet disappeared on March 22, 1956, after departing Comox, British Columbia, with Flight Officer Gerald Stubbs, 32, and Flight Officer James Miller, 23, on a training flight across the Georgia Strait.
• The Royal Canadian Air Force suspended its search in April 1956 after covering 20,900 square miles, 800 flight hours, and involving over a dozen search aircraft.
• The jet's canopy was discovered in September 1974 approximately two kilometers from the original crash site.
• In early August 1997, a military Flight Crash and Salvage Crew recovered the fuselage, which had been spotted by a private helicopter pilot fighting fires near Callaghan Lake.
• The 1997 recovery established that no remains were likely because the aircraft's ejection seats were absent.
• In 1987, Mary Ford, widow of James Miller, filed an Access to Information Act request and learned of the 1974 canopy recovery; neither she nor Stubbs's family had prior knowledge.
• The Whistler Museum also holds a canopy fragment, metal tubing, and a pilot's helmet donated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2010.