Canada's Arrow Program

The Arrow is a Canadian project to build an electric vehicle. What I cannot see written about it is that The Arrow was also the name of a project of the late 1950s to build a supersonic jet fighter plane with the latest technology. It would probably be the most advanced warplane in the world and was known as the Avro Arrow.

The Avro Arrow became a point of great national pride in Canada and a facility near Toronto employed thousands of people. But Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suddenly and unexpectedly cancelled the project and ordered all plans and prototypes associated with it to be destroyed. Many of the prominent people involved in the project ended up in the U.S. space program.

Canada, and especially Toronto, has never quite gotten over the cancellation of the Avro Arrow. There were rumors that the project might continue, maybe by a private company. People who were really interested in the Avro Arrow were known as "Arrowheads". In August 2018 came the news that a prototype of the Avro Arrow had been recovered from the bottom of Lake Ontario.

While I cannot see that the present Arrow Project, to build the most advanced electric car, was officially named for the Avro Arrow it is certainly being done in the same spirit and is the modern incarnation of the Avro Arrow. Just as the car was to showcase to the world what Canada was capable of doing I am sure that will now be accomplished by the car.

Remember that we saw the Avro Arrow in the compound posting "Investigations", December 2018, section 38) CANADA'S AVRO ARROW.