Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

 

Issue dated January 1983

 

During 1982, the Air Canada Pionairs Board of Directors held its sixth annual meeting in Vancouver to discuss a number of topics. 

Shown at the meeting are District Directors, back row, from the left: Ron Williams, Victoria, substituting for Tony Butler; Jack Somerset, Vancouver; Roger Alain, Florida; Don Jarvis, Calgary; Beth Ferguson, Winnipeg; Gord Smith, Toronto; Mary Young, Ottawa; Evelyn Desjardins, Montreal and Tony Bruneau, Halifax.

 

Seated, from the left, are: Martin Betts, Pension Representative; Bill Spratt, First Vice President; Dorothy Grant, Secretary; Ozzie Candy, Second Vice President; President George Fox and Joe Lorimer, Immediate Past President.

 

 

Halifax loves a parade.

For the past five years, the Halifax staff has entered a company float in a number of parades across the province of Nova Scotia, garnering a number of trophies along the way. A group of the people who made it happen got together during the parade off-season near year-end to mark 1982's performance.

 

Standing from the left, are: Jim Kirby, Passenger Sales Manager; Gerry Simpson, In-Flight; Charlie Stock, General Manager, Nova Scotia; Joyce Burris, wife of Arnold Burris, Millwright; Ian MacKenzie, In-Flight; Jim McClue, Maintenance Manager; Ron Banks, Supply Supervisor and Ken McLeod, Sales Representative.

 

Seated, from the left, are: Arnold Burris; Nicole Beland, In-Flight; Starr Williams, Statistics Clerk, Linda Tanner and Bob McKinnon, In-Flight.

 

Missing from the photo are: Sylvana McKinnon, Desiree Conn, Gloria Doyle and Sandy Molson, all of In-Flight and Station Attendant Derek Burris.