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Crawford Gordon Jr. (26 December 1914 – 26 January 1967) was a leader of wartime defence production in Canada under Minister of Munitions and Supply C.D. Howe during the Second World War.
Then there was the often-contentious relationship between conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, and Avro Canada president Crawford Gordon, Jr.
The three key players were Frederick Smye, President of Avro Aircraft during the Arrow project; Crawford Gordon, President of A.V. Roe Canada between 1951 and 1959; and James C. Floyd, Avro’s...
In this engaging and revealing biography of Crawford Gordon, the charismatic and mercurial dynamo at the helm of the Avro Arrow project in the 1950s, Greig Stewart chronicles the life and demise of the infamous plane that has taken on mythic proportions.
On 17 September 1958, after numerous evasions, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker relented and granted a hearing to Crawford Gordon, Jr., the president of A.V. Roe. Gordon stormed into the room "incoherent, like a person demented," an aid reported.
Crawford Gordon was a successful and influential businessman who led A.V. Roe Canada, the company that designed and built the CF-105 Avro Arrow, the first Canadian supersonic jet fighter. He faced challenges and controversies in the development and cancellation of the Arrow, which led to his downfall and death.
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The Arrow is a four-hour television miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1997, starring Dan Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader after World War II and president of Avro Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet interceptor aircraft.
