aircraft was without engines. The government loaned him 4 for the ferry flight to Calgary. Lancaster FM-136 was mounted on a concrete pedestal. The memorial was dedicated by Air Marshall Hugh Campbell, Chief of the Air Staff on April 12, 1962. FM-136 would later be removed for display in Calgary's The Hangar Flight Museum. A number of Garrison's original collection formed the original basis for the museum and are displayed alongside FM-136. During the sixties, Irving P. Krick & Associates operated a successful cloud seeding operation in the area around Calgary, Alberta, utilizing four Harvards to disperse silver iodide into the atmosphere in an attempt to reduce hail damage. For several years, Garrison, Ralph Langeman and Stan McLeod, all ex-members of the RCAF's 403 Squadron, spent their summers flying hail suppression. The Alberta Hail Suppression Project is continuing with C$3 million a year in funding from insurance companies to reduce hail damage in southern Alberta. In 1964, Garrison established the Air Museum of Canada. Prior to the creation of the Museum, Garrison had accumulated a personal collection of 45 classic aircraft including: Airspeed Oxford Avro Lancaster Avro Anson Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke Canadair F-86 Sabre CaudronLuciole Consolidated B-24 Liberator de Havilland Mosquito de Havilland Vampire de Havilland Tiger Moth de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk Fairchild PT-19 Fairey Battle Fleet Finch Fokker D.VII Fokker Dr.I Hawker Hurricane Lockheed T-33 Morane-Saulnier MS.230 North American B-25 Mitchell North American BT-9Yale North American T-6 Texan Harvard North American P-51 Mustang Pfalz D.III Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 Stampe-Vertongen SV.4 Supermarine Spitfire Sikorsky H-5 Vought F4U Corsair Vought OS2U Kingfisher Westland Lysander Garrison became involved in air show promotion, to fund his aircraft museum project, with his Calgary International Air Show in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966. In 1967 he created the Los Angeles International Air Show which ran until 1969. Garrison was also involved in the Irish International Air Shows of 1970 and 1971 and the 1968 Las Vegas International Exposition of Flight with Danny Kaye. Kaye was Honorary Chairman of the show that utilized many facets of the city's entertainment industry while presenting an air show. Garrison was the operational show chairman. In 1963, Garrison acquired a number of Hawker Hurricanes from farmyards in Alberta and Saskatchewan for his collection. He planned to create Canada's first flying aviation museum but could not generate interest. One of these now flies as G-HURI