Your original post stated that people did not dress up to fly in the sixties. You did not specify a date, only that Pearson was the PM. Pearson was PM from 1963 to 1968.

I provided photographic evidence to prove that people still dressed up to fly in the mid sixties. This included men in suits and ties, as well as women in dresses and heels. The photo even shows a little boy in a suit.


Although the hippie movement is often described as a sixties phenomenon, it really only took off in the mainstream in about 1969 and continued on into the early seventies, coincident with the anti war movement.

Given the high cost of flying in the mid sixties relative to income at that time and the fact that hippies only became prominent in Canada in the year after Pearson was gone, there would not have been planeloads of hippies at the time.