Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

 

Here is a look at the Christmas menu served on board Trans-Canada Air Lines circa 1957.

Issue dated December 1982 

 

Greetings from the children.

Long before Santa was due on his appointed rounds, the children of employees put their imaginations and artistic talents to work and produced nearly 300 entries for each year's Christmas card contest. Here are the winner and a few of the runner up entries. 

 

Stephanie Bennett, age 7,  daughter of Maryse Peloquin, Passenger Agent, Toronto submitted the winning design (below) and it appeared on President Claude Taylor's Christmas card for 1982.

 

 

Marie Lemay - age 15 - Montreal

 

 

Jennifer Coles - age 6 - Sudbury

 

 

Issue dated December 1983 

 

Gregory Mason, age 9, son of Captain Doug Mason of Vancouver submitted President Taylor's Christmas card design for 1983. 

 

 

Amy Cameron - age 6 - Toronto

 

 

Christine Bowes - age 14 - Montreal 

 

 

Left: Theresa Wachal - age 5 Winnipeg

 

Once again, the children of Air Canada employees came through with flying colours in the Christmas card contest.

Some 300 entries challenged the judges in making their selections.

The panel judges were: Marie Noel Lasserre, La Guilde Graphique, Montreal; Gentile Tondino, McGill University and Therese Dion, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, and art consultant to the company.

 

Editors' Note: Does anyone know if any of these children entered into a career in aviation? 

 

Issue dated September 1985 

 

Lise St-Germain reporting.

A taste of Tinsel town.

During the filming of the movie "Hold Up", starring French star Jean-Paul Belmondo, a number of scenes were shot at Mirabel Airport.

 

Air Canada's Public Affairs office was contacted first to handle transportation for the actors and secondly, to find a few employees — Pilots, Flight Attendants and Customer Sales & Service Agents — to lake part, just to add a touch of authenticity and local colour!

The participants quickly realized that there's more to an actor's life than the glint and glitter: On the first morning, they arrived at the airport at 7:30 am and left only after six in the evening. They soon found out that for every five minutes of filming, there were often hours of waiting in between.

The experience was nevertheless rewarding since in addition to the interest in watching the filming of one or more scenes from so close at hand, there was also an opportunity to hobnob with the actors, who were all very pleasant. And now there is the anticipation of being able to see themselves on the 'big screen' in October.

The big stars took a few moments from their busy filming schedule to gather for this picture.

 

Kneeling in the front, Lise St-Germain, Public Affairs on the left and Gabrielle Mattern, Flight Attendant.

First row, from left to right: Sonia Fallu, Customer Sales & Service Agent; Andrée Gouin, Flight Attendant; Mimi Misner, Customer Sales & Service Agent; Jean-Paul Belmondo and his dog Maja; Linda Dorval and Jocelyne Lalonde, Flight Attendants; Luc Deslauriers, Second Officer.

 

Back row in the same order: Jim Rowan, First Officer; Odette Jetté, Jerry Chalifoux, Louis Trudel, Frida Landry and Alain Bonnami, Customer Sales & Service Agents and Michel Therrien, Second Officer.

 

Issue dated October 1985 

 

During 1985, President Pierre Jeanniot visited Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth to meet employees, travel and tourist representatives along with government and business leaders.

 

Here we have the staff at Chicago, from the left: Stan Gorak, Margo Rodriguez, Pierre Jeanniot and Tony Velasquez.

 

 

And shown during the Dallas/Fort Worth visit are, from the left: George Mullener, Jeanne Evans, Pierre Jeanniot, Judy Stephens, Linda Price, Stan Heller, Denise Hammons, Wally Heckman, Bob Perreault and
Frank Pesce, seated.