21 August 1949

21 PERSONS DIED IN A PLANE CRASH INCLUDING THREE RADIO OPERATORS

A Canso R.C.A.F. military aircraft crashed and burned in Manitoba on 21 August 1949 killing everyone onboard. Amongst the 21 victims were three radio operators, all married men returning to their families, who had spent two or more years in the Arctic, at Clyde River on Baffin Island.

Cecil Dawn McKenzie was one of the three Radio Operators killed in the crash

Cecil Dawn McKenzie was born in December 1924 in Halifax, Nova Scotia

He was 25 years old when he died in August 1949 in a plane crash

Tombstone at a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia