1988 - April 3 – Non-stop service by AirBC between Victoria and Calgary commenced with the flight continuing to Saskatoon and Winnipeg. |
Air Canada NAVI magazine series was launched in March 2017. Here we have the Fall 2018 cover and the crew below: Meaghan Mrocek-Porato, Makiesha Thomas, Maria Scafo, Andrea Jaikaran, Scott O'Leary, Alexandra Ekiert, Sabrina Scott, Mark Nasr, Katelyn Risi and Carlier Morejon Amat. |
Continuing the Time Travel: 75 Years in Events. Started in NetLetter #1419. When the new fleet of TCA North Stars arrived in 1947, these heated, pressurized aircraft came equipped with high-speed ovens that could heat frozen foods. TCA is the first company in Canada to introduce full meals that are flash-frozen, a process invented by Clarence Birdseye, who was inspired after learning how to ice-fish with the Inuit in Labrador. As TCA stewardess Anne McAllister said at the time, “I defy you to tell the difference between these meals and the ones prepared in your own kitchen.” |
Inaugurating service to Chicago. Before the first flight to the Windy City, Commander C.P. Edwards, O.B.E., Deputy of Transport, addressed the crew: “You will be flying the old Chicago Trail. It was made famous by the covered wagons and their oxen. Then it took days to make the trip from Detroit. After the railways came, the trip was made in some 10 hours. Now the aircraft are flying over this historic trail and you will make the same trip in a couple of hours.” (Source: http://moments.aircanada.com/timeline) |
Found in the "Horizons" magazine issue dated June 1987. |
At the conclusion of the 9th Pionairs AGM in 1986, Ray White, Pionairs Treasurer - 1987 to 1989, penned the poem below: The Pionairs have wrapped up "Number Nine" I thought of how each one had marked my life. In early years, we were so very few, You think, - "Did I come close to my potential?" It’s a happy group of people that I've seen. |
Yarmouth station closes. Air Canada has filed an application with the CTC requesting the right to terminate services between Yarmouth and Boston, the net effect being the closure of our Yarmouth station. |
Issue dated September 1987. All the festivities of Air Canada's golden jubilee are but memories now and the company honored some of the employees who helped to make the 50th anniversary celebrations a success. |
At the Printing Bureau are back row from the left: Edward Thurston, David Burns, Gordie Bonner, Mike Robinson, Piedro Ferreira, Ralph Beffert, Roy Cadden, Ed Brochu, Moreau Forcucci, Don Lowe and Angie Stevens. In front with President Pierre Jeanniot are, Brenda Bartram, Carie Lennon, Merv Hernandez, Rena Brunelle, Monique Stonehouse and Josephine Farkas. |
A few YUL Cafeteria employees are shown with the President. From the left: Bob Cleroux, Jeanniot, Angele Seguinot, Nicole Scott, Derrick Murphy, Heidi Frauenhoff, Darren Deshover, Felice Smeets, Gusset Morrison, Marc Boudreau, Gary Ainscow, Paul Klein, Alex Gal and David Nisbet. |
At the YUL Paint Shop are, from the left: D.G. Poirier, Gerard Dupont, Tina Schneider, Jeanniot, Ted Mainprize, Raymond Crawford, Daniel Lortie and John Phalz. |
The 1988 Annual General Meeting for the National Pionairs was held in Anaheim, California from May 19 to 22, 1988. Officials for that year are: Missing from the picture are John Innes, Victoria who was away when the photograph was taken and Tony Bruneau, Halifax, who was unable to attend due to illness. |