Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

1982 - 

May 29 - Air Canada and United Airlines commenced a small package service called United Air Express.

June 26 - The fourth annual Air Canada Employees light aircraft fly-in (aka A.C.E. Fly-in) took place at Bernie and Alison Brennan's farm airstrip 45 minutes NW of Toronto.

A happy landing awaited Captain Ben Wyman when his charter flight arrived in Honolulu. In honour of Ben's last flight before going into retirement, Janet Lock, wife of Honolulu Station Manager Alan Lock, presented him with a lei made of red carnations and a cake. 

Adding their best wishes were members of his crew. Shown clockwise from Captain Wyman in the centre are: Lindley Bunting, Kristen Clarkson, Warran Wallace and Max Gamboa in the background; Erika Herzig, Marjorie Reynolds, Dorothy Coull, Deane McGowan, Nicolle Elliott is in front of Dorothy Summers, Marion Lunt, Terry Tedford in front of Gil Brasseur, Francine Julien, Norbert Wachter in front of Janet and Alan Lock.

Issue June 1982.

These eleven flight attendants were involved in The World Curling Championship for the Air Canada Silver Broom held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany during the summer of 1982.

In this photo are, seated from the left: Sigrun Cowan, Vancouver; Janis Ballanger, Toronto; Maridee Coulter, Calgary; Monique Collard, Montreal and Deborah Danyluik, Calgary.

Standing: Jocelyne Lalonde, Montreal; Ingrid Rigby, Vancouver; Karla Preston, Toronto; Elaine Toms, Winnipeg; Janice Miller, Toronto and Linda Tanner, Halifax.

From the 1987 “Report to Employees”, we have selected these photos -

In 1987 at Halifax we have, from the left: Ramp Service Supervisor Brian Doyle, Station Attendants Bonny Hignoy, Ron Clark and Bruce Thompson.

Here are Passenger Service Supervisor John Dietmar, Passenger Agent Elisabeth Lechner  (behind the counter), Senior Passenger Agent Ahmad Tauqir and Passenger Agent Claudia Roux providing "TLC" to a passenger at Frankfurt 1987.

World Airline Road Race 2017 was held in Singapore last October.

These employees were running for Air Canada competing in the 5K race at the Singapore WARR 2017 which had a total of 687 competitors.

For the men, not in alphabetical order: Ray Robichaud, Clifford Russell, Gregory Bayang, Bruno Gaudette, Scott McCaul, Paul Kinney, Robert Squires, Forbes Nelles, John Siroki, Norman Wheaton and David Houston.

For the ladies, not in alphabetical order: Joan Stibbaard, Ania Edwards, Lisa Siroki, Tiffany Smitz, Suzanne Huva Kim Salerno, Barbara Legun, Teri Seaboyer, Karin Houston, Catherine Brett, Judy Byrne, Marguerite Silvain, Mary Follo, Sharon Ayee, Susie Clare, Sheryl Williams, Bernadette Lynch, Angela Elliott, Sheila Sarne, Charlotte Birmingham and Judy Vitek.

Competing in the 10k race at the Singapore WARR 2017 which had a total of 301 competitors.

For the men: Clifford Russell and Ray Robichaud.

The ladies: Joan Stibbaard and Simona Cercel.

(Unfortunately, we did not locate any photo of the above employees - eds)