Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Issue dated April 1991

Dexter Ching was an eighteen year veteran, in 1991, of Canadian Airlines in Honolulu.

He has worked on the Ramp, in Passenger Services and in Cargo. Dexter was also the Chairman of the Board of the Interline Club of Hawaii.

At that time the membership of 800 people represents all areas of our industry, including Flight Attendants, Maintenance, Reservations, Pilots, Passenger Services and Cargo.

CPA at Honolulu was a 24 hour operation with most of our flights being serviced at night and contract operations being handled at peak times during the day.

Shown here is Edward Grant, Cargo Agent, hard at work in the Honolulu sunshine.

Posted on the 'Un-Official' Air Canada Staff & Alumni Group by Evan Macleod.

Western Canada Airways' first office at Hudson. The man in the doorway is J.A. McDougall, Treasurer of Western Canada Airways (1926).

Canadian Airways Limited was a Canadian regional passenger and freight air service based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

It was founded by James Armstrong Richardson Sr. in 1926 as Western Canada Airways (WCA), was fully established in 1930 following WCA's acquisition of a number of smaller regional competitors.

At its peak, Canadian Airways had a total of 51 aircraft of various types that provided both regular scheduled service between settlements as well as charter service to bush locations.

In 1942, Canadian Airways was absorbed into the fledgling Canadian Pacific Airlines, following Richardson's death three years earlier.