Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

1966 - November 6 -

Inaugural service Montreal - Moscow commenced with DC-8 equipment, Air Canada becoming the first North American carrier to operate a regular service to Moscow.

Issue dated May 1943

The speed bird has been dropped from our emblem due to similarity to the BOAC insignia.

A revision in design is under way and, until a final decision is reached, we shall treat the simple encircled maple leaf with a superimposed TCA as our official insignia - indeed this may remain our permanent design if nothing superior is evolved. 

Found in 'Horizons' magazine 

Issue dated April 1973

Effective Speech Workshop members in Montreal gather for their closing activities.

In the front row (seated) are: René Grether, VP of this year's course; banquet guest speaker Maurice d'Amours, Regional VP; Sam Gatelaro, course president; instructor Gilles Perron; Barbara Thompson, who will be president of next year's course.

Graduates in the back row are, from the left: Kelvin Brown, Jean-Claude Desfossés, Ross Watson, Peter Arstad, Jeff Martin, Russ Davis, Pierrette Williams, Odette Laliberté, Charles Cadot, Fred Romanauskas, Francoise Allard, Stan Dear and Bob Lawrie.

Missing from the photo are Bernard Keller, André Richard and Ron Muncey.

Issue dated September 2016

(by permission)

Celebrating the twenties.

On July 15, 1996, the Saint John Call Centre opened its doors in New Brunswick.

Twenty years later we celebrate those Customer Sales and Service Agents (mostly CSSA's except as noted) who started working at Air Canada on that day. Happy 20th anniversary!

Back row from left to right: Stanley Best, Rod Ritchie, Dwight Hilchie, Amy Washburn. CSA; Nathalie Noel, Nadine Noel, Jodi Meinert, France Goguen, CSA; Nicole Furlotte,
Kelly Corscadden, Customer Service Manager; Michael Tremblay, Director, Call Centres and Customer Relations and Sylvie Noel.

Front row left to right: Kathleen Robinson, Monique Daigle, Lead Rates and Ticketing; Erika Levesque, Jolene Ouellet, Resource Development Manager; Marco Ouellet, Nicole Richard, Christa McMaster, Karla Martin, Brenda Ross, Lead OPS; Josee Gautreau and Renee Thibodeau.

Missing in this picture but part of the group are: Nathalie LeClair, Michelle Graham, Trisha Comeau, Carl Ellemberg and Denis Cormier, Manager, Saint John Call Centre.