Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Happenings in 1942, from the Annual Report. 

1942 - May 1st - One daily service between Moncton N.B., Sydney N.S. and St. John's Newfoundland inaugurated. A second daily service added from November 1st.
Service to the Yukon Territory and Alaska as deferred due to Alaska being declared as a military zone.

The fleet equipment as of years end was: 11 Lockheed 14-08, 1 Lockheed 14H and 12 Lockheed Lodestar

Located in the "Altitude" magazine issued November 1989.

In August and September we had our first ever Cabin Crew Exchange Program with Singapore Airlines. Our two airlines had just formed a marketing alliance and four of us took to the skies on-board some of Singapore Airlines flights, to Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Perth and Sydney and they handed out brochures and giveaways while answering questions about routes and destinations to publicize the agreement.

We were true ambassadors for Air Canada and our country. The assignment was a tremendous success. It was an exciting adventure for six weeks, a first-time experience for all four., and were fortunate enough to experience layovers in Sydney and Perth, Australia.

In the photo from the left: Jocelyn Barrable, Louise Mallette-Trepanier; Jocelyn St Maurice and Ardyth Cleveland shopping In the Middle East section of Singapore, on Arab street. (shopping-in-singapore.jpg)

YVR Retirements (L-R) Rudy Saretsky, FSD. Carol Ann Shilli .F/A, Tom Pender, I/C, Eileen Hegstrom, I/C, Lloyd Penner, FSD, Susie Law, F/A,and Dick Willoughby, I/C, were honoured on the occasion of their retirement at a special function attended by over 100 people in Vancouver last June. Other retirees included Dick Wilson, FSD, Isabel Rose, I/C, and Peggy Gillis, F/A

Some of the new Flight Attendants graduating during the summer of 1989 (Seated L-R): Chantal Bonneau, instructor, Chantal Desjardins, Nathalie Raymond, Carol van Heuketon, Caroline Cortopassi, Anne-Lise Ram, Kerry Wray, Pamela Capes-Williams.

(Standing L-R: Curtis Betts, Stephane Asselin, Christine Bredt, Simone Kroege,Claire Renaud, Anu Bhardwaj, Michelle Pelchat, Wayne Lambert, Bruno Ciaramicoli, instructor, Serge DeMarco.