West with the Night she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop from east to west. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer. West with the Night West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature and was
Meant to Fly Meant to Fly "Meant to Fly" is a song written by Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida and Gaby Moreno, for 2006 "Canadian Idol" winner Eva Avila. The song was released as the first single from her debut album, "Somewhere Else", on September 26, 2006. After she was crowned the winner of the fourth season, "Meant to Fly" began receiving airplay across Canada. Both Avila and Craig Sharpe performed the song separately during the September 11 grand finale performance show and were both praised by "Idol" judges Sass Jordan, Farley Flex, Zack Werner and Jake Gold. "Meant to Fly" topped the Canadian