Index to the canadian aerophilatelist quarterly Journal of the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society

SPECIAL ISSUE #100
TITLES / CONTENTS SOURCES / DETAILS / COVERS & STAMPS PAGE

* President’s Report Steve Johnson / an announcement that CAS is presently 3

setting up an online version of the Journal, a welcome to

new executive member Paul Balcaen who is providing

computer assistance for the creation of the online version
* A Message from Dick Malott thanks extended to Journal editor Chris Hargreaves for 3

his ongoing work in “preparing, editing and publishing

our Journal”; notice of his decision to withdraw from many

former philatelic activities; a commitment made to provide

a future Journal issue with a written and illustrated record

of his 80 years of philatelic and aerophilatelic experiences

* Greetings from Patrick an active volunteer with the Canadian Aviation Heritage 4

Campbell – CAS Member #1 Centre in Montreal at age 91, he made a presentation about

the restoration of a Curtiss-Reid “Rambler” at a recent

CAHC open house
* 1918 – The Captain Brian Peck Ed Matthews / a letter carried aboard the June 24 1918 flight 4 - 5

flight from Montreal to Toronto written by W. R. Miller and addressed to himself, describing

some of the arrangements made for the first-ever transport of

air mail in Canada / AMCN cover PF-6

* 1918 – “Queen of the Sky” Gord Mallett / a letterhead carried aboard the second-only 6 - 7

aerial mail flight in Canada, details provided about a study

that investigates the July 9 1918 Calgary to Edmonton flight

as well as the covers that were carried / AMCN cover PF-7

* 1918 – Canada’s First John Bloor / a flown cover sent from Ottawa to Dundas via 8 - 9

“Semi-Official” Air Mail Stamp Toronto and dated August 27 1918, “one of the earliest

examples of a personal letter carried in Canada by air mail” /

AMCN cover CLP1-1801d
* CLP 3 – Toronto to New York Ray Simrak / the $1.00 Aero Club of Canada special stamp 9

Air Race affixed to the front of a letter addressed to the Czechoslovak

Consolate General in New York / AMCN cover CLP3
* CLP 4 – Grand Army Flight - Neil Hunter / a cover bearing the Grand Army of Canada 10

Hamilton to Toronto (United Veterans) stamp flown on the return trip from

Hamilton, taken from an exhibit Evolution of Air Mail –

Toronto, Canada from Biplane to Jet / AMCN cover CLP 4
* 1922 – Major Cotton arrives Bill Beaudoin / two captioned postcards showing Major 11

in St. John’s F. S. Cotton and Capt. V. S. Bennett arriving at St John’s

Quidi Vidi Lake January 14 1922 after a failed attempt

at a mail flight to Halifax aboard the Martynside aircraft

* Lignes Aeriennes Latecoere - David Whitely / details of industrialist Pierre Latecoere’s 12 - 13

Compagnie générale aéropostale design and construction of numerous aircraft including the

– the early years. Breuget 14 used between 1919 and 1927 on the Toulouse

to Dakar line, the 1927 change of the company name to

Compagnie générale aéropostale (Aéropostale) / 1 cover
* 1924 – CLP 5 Paul Cere / an intact pane of two Estevan-Winnipeg semi- 14

officials on an October 1 1924 flown cover, inscriptions

inverted Type I and II / AMCN cover CLP5-2400
* Pilot-signed Covers John Lewington / a display of pilot signatures that originally 15

shown in Ian Morgan’s Specialized Catalogue of Canadian

Airmails in 1931, two errors in the display are identified
* 1927 – Richard Byrd Donald Holmes / a cover from the 79th Anniversary of the 16

Trans-Atlantic Flight Richard Byrd (and crew of Bernt Balchen, Bert Accosta and

George Noville) attempted flight from New York to Paris

in the Fokker Trimotor America / 1 cover

* 1927/28 – St. John’s, Nfld. to Tom Reyman, Barry Countryman / a Max Berendes cover 17

St. John’s, Antigua, B. W. I. that passed through St. John, New Brunswick en route to

the B. W. I. from St. John’s, Nfld. / 1 cover
* Aerophilatelic Archaeology Chris Hargreaves / an analogy drawn between archaeology 18

and aerophilately

* La Malbaie to Seven Islands, Chris Hargreaves, Dick McIntosh, Pierre Vachon / a cover 18

January 1928 with a Quebec Winter Sports Dog-team slogan cancel and

an identical “By Labrador Dog-team Post” cachet, displays

the typed inscription “By air-mail La Malbaie to 7 Islands” /

1 attractive cover linked to the AMCN 2721 flights
* February 1928 – First Air Mail Paul Varty, John Irvine / questions posed regarding an 19

to Anticosti Island A. C. Roessler Port Menier to La Malbaie cover as well

as a W. R. Patton La Malbaie to Port Menier cover /

2 covers linked to the AMCN 2721 flights

* “The First Dog-Mail Connecting Ian Macdonald / a pair of colour postcards in which a dog 20

with Aeroplane at St. Hubert team is in front of a Fairchild FC-2W2 G-CAVN registered

Airport near Montreal, Canada” to Canadian Colonial Airways, unknown flight date
* Air Mail to the Arctic – 120,000 Denny May / the summing up of key details linked to the 21

First Flight Covers inaugural air mail delivery in the Mackenzie River District

carried out from December 10 1929 to January 3 1930 /

AMCN 2967 ‘l’, signed by Wop May
* Bob of the Northland Brian Wolfenden / a letter and advertising coupons from 22 - 23

“Bob of the Northland”, and a “Pine to Palm” Aklavik,

N.W.T. Canada to Miami, Florida U.S.A cover prepared

by “Bob of the Northland”/ AMCN cover CL48-3102

* Pan Am’s Canadian Route, 1931 Jonathon Johnson / a USA cover refranked with Canadian 24

postage and “probably flown from Saint John to Newark via

Bangor and Boston”, details of the FAM-1 Foreign Contract

and CAM-1 Contract routes, Sikorsky S-41 aircraft / 1 cover

* Imperial Airways Walter Herdzik / South Africa covers posted to the USA and 25

carried on the first scheduled flight series from Cape Town

to London, January 27 to February 16 1932 / two covers
* 1933 – U.S.S. Akron Alan Klein / a cover “IN MEMORIAM to the gallant men 26

who lost their lives in the U. S. S. Akron disaster”, mailed

to Fort Rae N.W.T. from the USA, returned to the sender,

details of the rigid airship Akron (ZRS-4) / 1 cover

* Some Roessler odds and ends Trelle Morrow / two four-stamp panes of Canadian Airways 27

Limited Roessler cinderellas and a flown Roessler cover

containing this same cinderella on the front / 1 cover
* The Silver Dart Flight Derek Rance / background of the February 23 1909 flight by 28 - 29

Commemorations J. A. D. McCurdy aboard the Silver Dart, covers and stamps

linked to the 25th, 50th and 100th anniversaries of the flight,

the replicas built and flown for the latter two anniversaries /

3 covers, 1 Canadian Postal Service stamp (Unitrade # 383)
* 1935 – Winnipeg to Berens David Reynolds / questions asked about an oil based art 30

River First Flight work scene of a plane and pilot superimposed onto a flown

cover from the February 3-4 1935 flight / AMCN 3509
* 1937 – Russian Polar Flight Barry Lewis and Aircraft Stamp News, journal of Aircraft 31 - 32

Study Group of Thematics Southern Africa / details of the

June 20th flight by a Soviet-built ANT-25 monoplane from

Moscow to Vancouver, Washington’s Air Field; 5288 miles

covered by three Russian aviators in 63 hours, 16 minutes;

no known flown covers exist

* Commemorating the 1937 Andrew Mrozowski / a cover postmarked Vancouver Jun 20 33

Russian Polar Flight 1937 Wash.; the typed cachet reads Welcome to Vancouver Washington/Russia to USA Transpolar Flight/Left Moscow

June 18 Flying Non-/Stop Arriving Vancouver June 20;

signed by Chekaloff, Beliakoff and Baidukoff / 1 cover,

1 picture postcard of aircraft and crew, 4 Russian stamps
* 1937 – Nascopie Covers Don Lussky / question as to where a pair of covers aboard 34 - 35

the 1937 trip of the Nascopie was picked up by a mail plane,

each carries a typed directive “Per R. M. S. Nascopie on

Annual Arctic Expedition” – Chris Hargreaves suggested

it was Churchill / 3 covers, 1 postcard
* Imperial Airway Covers – John Symons, editor of Air Mail News, quarterly journal of 36 - 37

Transatlantic Route, August 1939 the British Air Mail Society / questions posed in regards to

details linked to four covers flown by Imperial Airways,

each of which is franked either with British or Canadian

stamps / 4 covers
* 1^st September 1939 Richard Beith / a cover sent air mail from BRNO (German 38

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) to Australia at the

point that Germany was invading Poland / 1 cover
* April 1940 Alan Tunnicliffe, editor of New Zealand Air Mail News, 39

newsletter of the New Zealand Air Mail Society / a New

Zealand cover addressed to Hamilton, Ontario, displaying

a handstamped cachet “New Zealand – Australia – England/

Through Air Mail Service/Inaugural Flight/1940” / 1 cover
* The Metropolitan Air Post Chris Hargreaves / one of several vintage Pan Am posters, 40

Society this one titled “Fly To South Sea Isles Via Pan American”

* Greetings From Mike Shand a cover mailed to Henry Woodhouse (President of Aerial 41

League of America) by Clara Adams (passenger on a Pan

Am roundtrip flight) and bearing the pen-and-ink directive

Inaugural Commercial Passenger Flight–California to

New Zealand; DO-X; Graf Zeppelin; Hindenburg / 1 cover
* 1941 – Air Mail to Norway? Hal Vogel / issues regarding a properly franked air mail 42 - 43

cover from Canada to Norway, a possible rerouting to allow

a Trans-Atlantic mail flight to occur, questions as to how

air mail was handled in Canada at that point / 1 cover

* 1942 – The “D.w,” handstamp Kevin O’Reilly / one of the covers in a recently-acquired lot 44 - 45

is used again! displays the D.w. handstamp, the 44th such recorded cover;

Vincent Greene Foundation’s Celestron microscope used to

compare two covers containing the handstamp impression /

4 covers
* 1942-45: the role of Shediac David Crotty, John Wilson / confirmation that Shediac was 46

on Pan Am’s Northern Trans- a regular stop on Pan Am’s northern wartime route, further

Atlantic Route details to be found on the West Africa Study Circle website
* Book Review : Pan American Chris Hargreaves / “a book aimed at general readers as well 47

Airways 1939 – 1944 Atlantic as specialist aerophilatelists … flights and airmail services

Wartime Operations Catalog before the war … operations during World War II …

by David Crotty detailed flight summaries … stops at the end of 1944”

* Book Review : A Life in Larry Milberry of CANAV Books / “R. D. Richmond’s 48

Canadian Aerospace 1942 – personal story … re-engining a Fairey Battle with a

1992 by Dick Richmond Wright engine … the prototype North Star for Canadair …

oversees development of the Canadarm … takes the reader

inside Canada’s aerospace industry”
* Airmail to Grosse Isle, Quebec Hugh Delaney / covers sent to the Quebec postal station for 49

the WW II Bacteriological and Biological Disease Control

Station located on Grosse Isle / 2 covers
* Cockburn Island – Dec 7 1947 Terry Isaac / a recently-acquired registered first flight cover 50

flown December 19 1947 from Cockburn Island, previously

recorded in AMCN’s “No Covers Are Known” (page 256),

will be listed in the revised edition of the catalogue / 1 cover

* 1947 – Emergency mail Mike Street / a Moose Jaw to Assiniboia cover marking the 51

1947 emergency flights; a mail sticker prepared by the Supt.

of Postal Services in Moose Jaw reads First/Official

Air Mail/Emergency/Winter 1946 – 47 / 1 cover

* 1958 – R.C.A.F. Comet cover Herbert Lealman / a Comet cover flown on a flight carrying 51

the Minister of National Defense from Ottawa to Vancouver

on October 28 1958, $500+ winning bid on eBay / 1 cover

* 1966 – Pacific Western Ken Sanford, La Catastrophe editor, quarterly journal of the 52 - 53

Airlines Crash Cover Wreck & Crash Mail Society / a Grumman Goose amphibian

with Unlisted Cachet that crashed at Reef Island, British Columbia / 1 cover
* 1966 – Operation Skyhook, Nino Chiovelli / containing dual USA-Canada franking this 54

Flight 1159 cover was carried aboard Balloon Flight 1159 conducted by

RAVEN Industries from the joint Canadian Forces – U.S.

Military Base at Fort Churchill, Man., July 7 1966 / 1 cover

* 1969 – Lamb Airways Bas Burrell / addressed to CANADA AIR NOTES this cover 55

displays the typed message “This cover carried out of back

country … by courtesy of LAMB AIRWAYS pioneer bush

and charter operator our of The Pas.”, details of Lamb and

his company Lambair, humorous anecdotes / 1 cover
* November 10^th 1980 – Canada Peter Wood / ‘circles’ under the right wing of Curtiss JN-4 56

Post: Military Aircraft Canuck in a copy of a stamp (Unitrade # 875) resulted from

dirt under the printing roller that caused the misprint
* Greetings from Stephen a souvenir cover and its insert that provides details of the 56

Neulander presentation of a CF-100 to 1 Air Reserve Wing, St. Hubert;

has no Canada Post cancellation / AMCN cover CF-8201
* 1994 – Airmail from OMAN Duff Malkin / an official registered airmail envelope sent 57

to CANADA from the Sultanate of Oman to the University of British

Columbia / 1 cover
* 2011 – 100^th Anniversary of Neville Polakow, the Aerophilatelic Society of Southern 57

the First South African Africa / the first flight was made from Kenilworth to

Airmail Flight Muizenberg, a miniature sheet issued October 9 2011
* 2011 – Canadian “Rocket Ashley McIsaac / one of the covers flown aboard the first 58

Mail” ever launch in the Canadian Rocket Mail program, flight

of 1½ minutes reaching an altitude of 2500 feet / 1 cover
* 2014 – Canadian Astronaut on Jeff Dugdale, editor of Orbit, quarterly journal of the Astro 58

a Ukrainian Cover Space Stamp Society / Roberta Bondar flew on the NASA

Space Shuttle Discovery, January 22-30 1992 / 1 cover
* Editor’s Report Chris Hargreaves / details provided regarding restructuring 59

of membership fees and the transition to cyber-membership

1VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 4 [ December 2014 - Journal #101 ]
TITLES / CONTENTS SOURCES / DETAILS / COVERS & STAMPS PAGE

* Aerophilately 2014 congratulations to CAS members who exhibited 3

Multi Frame Exhibits:

Dave Crotty PAA Trans-Atlantic Airmail Services 1939 –1945

Single Frame Exhibits:

Cheryl Ganz LZ-129 Hindenburg Onboard Postmarks

FIP Gold / National Gold:

Cheryl Ganz The 50 Cent Zeppelin Issue: A Study in Design

Steve Johnson Yukon Airways and Exploration Company

FIP Vermeil / National Gold:

Allen Klein ZR-3 Delivery Flight of the United States

National Silver:

Ray Simrak Canadian Dispatch Pacific Clipper Mail
* Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame congratulations to CAS member Ken Sanford for his 3

election to the Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame

* Letters to the Editor several congratulations to the editor for excellent 4

work on the Journal and especially for issue #101,

note about French African Airmails 1932 to 1940,

note about the virtual philatelic exposition EXPONET

www.exponet.Info/specifications.php?lng=EN
* International Exhibiting RPSC International Liaison Officer Jim Taylor / 5 - 7

developments in exhibiting as reported in the newsletter

The International Exhibitor, details about Singapore’s 2015

FIP World Philatelic Exhibition, information from FISA

* A Nice Surprise!Yukon Airways Steve Johnson / a commercial T. Eaton Company item 7

and Exploration Company Ltd. dated November 17th / AMCN cover CL42-2700

* 1918: Experimental Air Mail Neil Hunter, Barry Countryman / a cover and newspaper 8

article from the experimental flight from Toronto, Aero

Club of Canada, August 15 1918 / AMCN cover PF-8
Ray Simrak / cover from the second Ottawa - Toronto flight, 9

letter from pilot Lt. Arthur Dunstan / AMCN cover PF-10c

* 1924 – Laurentide Air Service John Lewington / an early Laurentide Services cover 10

Limited franked with CL3 and signed by pilot C. S. Caldwell, a

question posed as to the Via Aeroplane Mail handstamp /

AMCN cover CL3-2401a,
* 1927 – The London to London John Bloor / an unused postcard from the Sir John Carling 11

Flight flight by Tully and Medcalf, details linked to it requested

* Finding a Moose on Cover! Tom Reyman / question raised as to the origin and purpose 11

of a moose imprint on a C1 stamp / AMCN cover 2939f

* Follow Up: February 1928 – Paul Varty / a cover addressed to W. R. Patton from the first 12 - 15

First Air Mail to Anticosti La Malbaie - Port Menier flight, a letter from dealer Patton

Island to a collector describing the flight, two A. C. Roessler and

two other covers with various cancellations linked to the

same flights / four AMCN 2805 series of covers
* Via Air Mail, First Official Don Lussky / a listing of the changes that are being made to 16

Flight, Charlottetown to item 2905 in the revised The Air Mails of Canada and Nfld

Summerside, January 1929 catalogue / AMCN cover 2905
* Lignes Aeriennes Latecoere - David Whiteley / Part 2 of David`s article, 1927 launch of 17 - 22

Compangie générale aeropostale service to Natale and Buenos Aires, operations to link South

America to the western Africa coast, Mermoz, Latecoere 28

flying boat, route map, timetable, the problems faced,

Aeroposta Argentina S. A., Aeropostale Alas de Venezuela /

4 covers

* American Aero Philatelic Stuart Keely / one of only two regional conventions, a 23 - 24

Society Second Convention: show seal, advertising envelope and other memorabilia,

Windsor Ont. Aug 20-22, 1931 request for help in locating 1931 A.A.P.S. show covers /

1 cover
* First Scheduled Flight, Cape Walter Herdzik / details about this double registered flight 25

Town to London, January 27- cover, carries 9 South African definitive stamps plus 3x4d

February 16 1932 and 1shilling air post stamp, guilder return flight stamp /

1 cover

* U.S.S. Macon commemorative Allen Klein / two Macon covers, the first also flown on the 26

covers – “Double Usage” in McKenzie Island-Kenora first flight, the second also on the

Canada Winnipeg-Gods Lake first flight, AMCN covers 3433b,

3505a
* Follow Up: 1935 – Winnipeg David Reynolds, Derek Rance, Ian MacDonald / the plane 27

to Berens River First Flight identified as a 1916 Type P. Morain-Saulnier of the

Aéronautique Militaire / AMCN cover 3509
* 1939 – Imperial Airways Trans- Mike Shand, & John Symons / Bridging the Atlantic, details 28 - 29

Atlantic First Flight Covers of the second McKnight cover found that was mailed from

England, British Monomarks Limited / 2 covers
* Imperial Censorship Operations Richard Beith / details provided of this censorship activity 30

In The Gambia In 1942: by that was provided over a seven month period, Linee Aere

John Wilson Transcontinentali Italiane, Pan American,
* A Snowbirds Cover Gord Mallett / # 9 of 12 covers prepared by Nino Chiovelli 31

and flown by the Snowbirds during the opening ceremonies

of the first-ever NHL outdoor hockey game – the Heritage

Classic, signed by all nine Snowbirds pilots / 1 cover

* A Greeting Card Stephen Neulander / English meteorologist James Glaisher, 32

historian of ballooning Gaston Tissandier, a November

1868 flight over Paris / one ballooning card

1VOLUME XXXI, NUMBER 1 [ March 2015 - Journal #102 ]

TITLES / CONTENTS SOURCES / DETAILS / COVERS & STAMPS PAGE

* President’s Report Steve Johnson / special thanks extended to Joan Hafer for 3

the assistance she provides to Brain Wolfenden in keeping

the CAS membership and financial records

* Secretary’s Report Brian Wolfenden / CAS membership of 129 is an increase 3 - 4

of 3 from the paid membership of twenty years ago in 1995

* Treasurer’s Report Brian Wolfenden / financial position as of Dec 31 2014 is 5

$23,101.19 inclusive of a Western Chapter $3,000.00 which

is returnable to the chapter upon request
* Editor’s Report Chris Hargreaves / members’ comments about the first CAS 6

journal available electronically, thanks extended to Paul

Balcaen, John Walsh, David Crotty and Dick McIntosh,

2015 CANADIAN AEROPHILATELIST EDITOR’S AWARD

to Neil Hunter for his work as editor-in-chief of The Air

Mails of Canada and Newfoundland and other contributions

to the CAS

* A Passion for Flight: New Alan Tunnicliffe / “Volume Three: The Joe Hammond Story 7

Zealand Aviation Before The and Military Beginnings 1910-1914 … the final volume in

Great War by Errol W Martyn the trilogy about NZ aviation from 1868 onwards to the

start of World War One in 1914”

* International Exhibiting RPSC International Liaison Officer Jim Taylor /recent 8

developments as reported in The International Exhibitor

newsletter, information for Canadian exhibitors regarding

World Stamp Show NEW YORK 2016, will be the largest

philatelic exhibition ever staged, 4000 frames
* Crash Covers Information Ken Sanford / Recovered Mail by Henri Nierinck to be 9

updated by AAMS and will incorporate the Interrupted

Flights section of AAMC and section 7 of the AMCN
* Finally, the flying car may The Guardian (Oct 2 2014) / Flying Roadster AeroMobil 10

have landed 3.0,Terrafugia’s announcement in 2014 that it was two

years away from finishing its first “roadable” aircraft
* “The First Dog-Mail Connecting Barry Countryman / first international dog sled mail, 600 11 - 12

With Aeroplane At St. Hubert mile roundtrip through Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont

Airport Near Montreal,Canada” and as far north as Montreal
*D.w. Update #4 – A New Theory! Chris Hargreaves / copies of prairies railway timetables for 12 - 21

1931 provided by Ross Gray (editor for the BNAPS Railway

Post Offices Study Group), a strong position put forward that

D.w. was handstamped on covers to indicate “end of air mail

- diverted to rail” (i.e. Diverted Winnipeg) / AMCN covers

3061, 3207p; 5 other covers

* What happened at Shelter Bay? Chris Hargreaves & Derek Rance, Diana Trafford / a baffling 21 - 25

cover postmarked Cariboo Islands Que FE11 30 & stamped

“Damaged when Air Plane sand at Shelter Bay 17 2 30”,

a question as to why CF-AAT landed at Shelter Bay /

AMCN 2721, 1 other cover
* An Air Mail Cover from Hugh Osborne, Peter Wingent, Alan Drysdall / an analysis 26 - 28

Southern Rhodesia to the of the route the cover took and modes of transport, featured

Falkland Islands, 1935 in AEROLETTER (the journal of The AEROPHILATELIC

SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA / 1 cover

* World War II POW Mail: a cover from a German army Sergeant writing home from 28 - 29

How did this cover travel Medicine Hat Alberta, information requested as to how the

from Alberta to Germany? cover travelled from Alberta to Germany / 1 cover
* The A. O. Directional Marking Richard Beith, Nino Chiovelli / an abbreviation of the U.P.U. 30

phrase ‘Autres Objets’ which refers to printed matter , in

contrast to letters identifed as L.C. (‘Lettres, Cartes’)
* The 2003 Snowbirds – NHL Nino Chiovelli / details of preparation of the covers, display 30

Heritage Classic Covers of one of the covers in the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame

and display as part of a Hockey Tour in Alberta / 1 cover
* Information Wanted: John Lewington / regarding the identity of the pilot on the 31

Sioux Lookout - Pickle Lake flight, December 31 1928,

Dale S. Atkinson as reported in AMCN or A. H. Farrington

as appears on flight covers / AMCN cover CL40-2802

Bernie Smith / a request for contact with other individuals 31

who are interested in continuing Murray Heifetz’s previous

study of the “Boxed Air Mail Hand Stamps”

1VOLUME XXXI, NUMBER 2 [ June 2015 - Journal #103 ]