Nova Scotia Archives
J.A.D. McCurdy
and the Silver Dart: Canada's 'First Aerial Navigator'
Elsie May Bell McCurdy holding her nephew J.A. Douglas McCurdy
Lucy McCurdy died on 25 March 1888, a week after the birth of her son Lucian. Georgina McCurdy, Arthur McCurdy's sister, then assumed the care of the four motherless children. When a prominent family wanted to adopt J.A.D. McCurdy, Aunt Georgie is reputed to have said, "He was born a McCurdy and by God he will die a McCurdy".
Date: ca. 1893
Photographer: C.M. Bell, Washington
Reference: J.A.D. McCurdy Nova Scotia Archives 2007-058 vol. 003 no. 07