At the great DHC-2 website of Neil Aird the location is quoted as Vancouver Coal Harbour. Photo by Kenneth I. Swartz

Of Harbour Air's fleet of 14 Beavers and 22 Otters, only one of each type are adorned in this eye-catching Canada sesquicentennial colour scheme, applied in 2017. This is an early DHC-2 frame, of 1949 vintage.

Perfect livery for Canada Day July 1

Harbour Air's Sesquicentennial Beaver, commemorating Canada's 150 years of Confederation.

Seen alongside in Vancouver. (Nikon D610 + Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED AF-S)

This early Beaver was flown first by Ontario's Department of Lands and Forests as CF-OCJ from March 1949 to 1964. Since then it has been flying the coast of British Coloumbia with the likes of Powell Air, Air West, Air BC and Harbour Air. Acquired by Harbour Air in December 1984, the float plane was damage so badly in a 1998 landing accident that it did not take to the air again until 2010. Re-registered C-FFHA in 2016, it was the Beaver chosen for this special Canada sesquicentennial color scheme in 2017. The "Canada 150 " titles have been removed in 2018, but the colors fly on.

Air West's C-FOCJ emerged from a 1979 accident rebuild in this new color scheme. Shortly after this photo was taken, the airline completed the purchase of several small coastal airlines and merged them all with Air West to form Air BC with this color scheme. This Beaver is with Harbour Air registered C-FFHA in 2018.

First with Province of Ontario's Department of Lands and Forests from 1949 to 1966, this early Beaver then went to the British Columbia's west coast, where is is still current as C-FFHA.