Be a part of the new Air Canada Museum!
Air Canada is creating its own Air Canada museum inside Montreal Headquarters. Scheduled to open early this year, the museum will include artifacts, documents and photos that represent the company’s 79-year history. Air Canada is looking for any memorabilia from any of the airlines that now make up Air Canada. These could include items such as tote bags, airline tickets, bag tags, brochures, promotional items, work tools, employee communications documents, advertisements, aircraft models, route maps, cards, timetables and the list goes on. They are also looking for any of the following aircraft models:
Air Canada/TCA
- Lockheed L1OA
- DC-3 TCA
- Canadair North Star DC-4 M1 Silver Livery
- Canadair North Star DC-4 M2 White Top Livery
- Vickers's Vanguard White Top Livery
- DC-9-32 Black Nose Livery
- DC-8-63 Red Strip Black Nose Livery
- B727-233A
- B767-200 Red Livery
- B747-133 Black Nose Livery
- A320-200 red with burgundy stripe livery.
- B747-400 Red with burgundy stripe livery
- A319 with white livery
Wardair Canada
B747-1D1
Canadian
- DC-8-43 White Red Strip Livery
- DC-8-63 Orange Livery
- B737-217 Orange Livery
- B747-217B Orange Livery
- B767-300 blue with goose livery
- B767-300 blue livery
- B747-400 Blue with goose livery
If you have any items you would like to loan or donate to the Air Canada Museum, please contact
Air Canada workers, represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), ratified a new 10-year collective agreement. The IAMAW represents 7,500 Air Canada employees who work as technical, maintenance and operational support employees in the airline’s airport, maintenance and Air Canada Cargo operations. The agreement has been approved by the Air Canada board of directors.
Air Canada has created a scholarship honouring former Chairman, President and CEO Claude Taylor on January 11th, 2016. The University of New Brunswick issued a press release announcing that Air Canada is investing $100,000 at the University of New Brunswick over the next 5 years to create a scholarship in honour of its former Chairman, President and CEO Claude Taylor (DCL ’80)
Two new books on Canadian women in aviation from author Elizabeth Muir. When airplanes were first invented, women were not supposed to fly, even as passengers. It was a man’s world; but many women desperately wanted to join them in the sky; they were called air-crazy.” A few women did manage to share a flight as a passenger, but it was not until 1928 that the first Canadian woman received her pilot’s licence. Read the stories of how women in Canada, from the Atlantic provinces to British Columbia, broke through the sky blue ceiling, first as passengers in planes, then as pilots, stewardesses and finally as astronauts, from author Elizabeth Muir. (source Canadian Aviation Historical Society, January 2016) |