Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

 

NetLetter readers can certainly note that we do quite frequently publish content relating to the evolution of aviation in Canada's North. I think that there is a very good reason, it is and endlessly fascinating topic. 

 

So when the 'Featured Video' from this issue popped up on my YouTube subscription, I was delighted to watch this bit of Canadian history.

 

Far too much info to post here so please take a few moments to watch the video and click the reference links below for details. For this piece I am focusing on just a condensed history of the two aircraft  'Vic' and 'Renée.

 

 Imperial Oil Company’s Junkers JL-6 G-CADP ('Vic') and G-CADQ ('Renée')  where designed and built in Germany and modified in the United States. When Imperial Oil discovered oil at what is now Norman Wells, circa 1921, It required and efficient way to transport workers and supplies Edmonton.

 

The two aircraft were acquired and and ferried from New York to Edmonton in the winter of 1920-21.  They were given their names by Mrs. A.M. McQueen, wife of Imperial Oil’s vice-president.

 

G-CADP – 'Vic', named for company president Charles Taylor’s daughter, Victoria, G-CADQ – Renée, named for Taylor’s secretary.

 

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G-CADP ('Vic') - Fort Simpson, N.W.T. - April 15, 1921

 

 

Posted on the 'Today I Found Out' YouTube channel.

 

Discover the daring 1921 Arctic flight that changed Canadian aviation forever. From -50°C skies to moose-glue propellers, this is the thrilling story of 'Vic', 'Renée', and northern frontier ingenuity!

 

Also see 'Wayne's Wings' article below.

 

Summit Air is a Canadian airline headquartered in Yellowknife that operates scheduled, charter and cargo aviation throughout the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon It was founded in 1987.

They own and operate one of the largest and most diverse fleets of aircraft in the industry including Avro RJ100, Avro RJ85, ATR72, Dash8-300, Dash8-100, Short SC.7 Skyvan and Dornier-228.

 

The photo below is a BAe 146 Avro RJ85 C-FLRJ at Yellowknife Airport (YZF), NWT Canada on September 6, 2015.

Interliner magazine issue dated January 1957

 

Interline personnel and travel agents located in the Edmonton, Alberta attended a sales meeting during the Autumn of 1956 to hear details of TCÅ's North Atlantic 'Pay Later Plan' and '75 Day Excursion' fares.

 

Pictured here are, in the back row, Ieft to right: B. J. Hostyn, CPA, Grande Prairie; Gordie Hercus, Assistant. Supervisor Sales and Traffic, CPA; Larry Nichols, Station Manager, WAL; George Wells, Supervisor Sales and Traffic, CPA; and E. W. Ogden, City Sales Manager, CPA all of Edmonton.

Front row, left to right: J. A. McCarville, CPA, Uranium City; Art Woida, Station Manager, NWÅ, Edmonton; W. Jack Dalby, Regional Sales Manager., TCA, Vancouver; Doug McLeod, District Sales Manager., NWA, Edmonton; Bill Garven, District Sales Manager, TCA, Edmonton.

 

 

Found at Vintage Airliners website

 

John Gilchrist posted this photo of the 1976 Flight Attendants class.

 

 

CP Air - Roger Collins, Dave Stockley, Ed Scromeda, Jim Melidones and Shirley Joe.

 

1969 Pic & Info courtesy of Marlie Kelsey & Roger Collins.

 

 

From Canadian Pacific Airlines Newsletter

 

Issue dated May 1964

 

A long drive was involved in getting an air starting unit for DC-8s from Montreal to Windsor when jet service started there.

 

Air engineer Ed McAnany leaving Dorval airport on a 600 mile trip was given a send-off by, from left: Marc Bilodeau, John Kelly, Paul Gladysz, Andy Popiel and Gyula Lakatos.

 

From CPA Connections issue dated March 1989

 

Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous February 17 - 26, 1989.

The annual high spirited, foot stompin' winter carnival known as Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous is a festival designed to thaw out the crustiest of sourdoughs, and to warm the hearts of any stranger to the North.

 

To Yukoners, Rendezvous is a ritual. A time to shake off the dregs of winter and test ones speed and strength.

 

In this photo, back row: left to right: Scott Lyle, Robyn Firth, Alaina Fletcher, Laverne Randall, Sue Sawyer, Marie Aylward, Bruce Laurie.

 

Front Row, left to right: Al Fozard, Becky Duncan, Pat Besier, Gayie Alford, Frank Close and Phil Dyke. Right in front is Dave Griffiths.

Editors' Note: Whoever submitted this photo made the following comment: "Frank Close is a 4th generation Yukoner, his father operates the Watson Lake Flying Service".