Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Issue dated September 1977

Individual Is Important In 'Catch our Spirit' Ads

Employees are the stars in the in the new CP Air advertising campaign which was launched in Canada and the United States September 12, 1977.

'Catch our Spirit' is the theme. Each print media ad has a photo of CP Air people. Several have the 49 people as in the photo below, others illustrate larger or smaller groups ... with one thing in common; they're all smiling. 

The implication: There's a friendly spirit pervading CP Air ... catch it with us!

Editors' Note: We wonder if any of these people are also in the reunion group below.

In NetLetter #1513 we advised of the upcoming CP Air / Canadian 4th BC District Reunion being held September 2023.

Following a brief history of this event:

The first such reunion was held in Parksville, British Columbia during 2003, followed 10 years later in 2013 at the same location.

People came from as far away as Frankfurt, Germany, the United States  and other parts of Canada to join in the fun. The third reunion was held in September 2018 in Parksville.

Marlie Kelsey, one of the organizers, tells us that the CP Air / Canadian BC District Reunion is an extension of what started as the Whitehorse (YXY) reunion in 2003 and now includes all the bases from Prince George (YXS) to Whitehorse (YXY) including Fort Nelson (YYE), Fort St. John (YXJ), Watson Lake (YQH), Grande Prairie (YQU), Terrace (YXT) and Prince Rupert (YPR).

However, Vancouver (YVR) is not included as they have their own reunion.

Editors' Note: See NetLetter #1400 for our report on the 2018 reunion. 

Frequent photograph contributor Caz Caswell captured this photo of three Wardair B-747's together on the Toronto ramp on January 1, 1985,

Caz explains:

"I often went over to Terminal 1 on my lunch breaks when Wardair maintenance offices were located on Viscount Road.

As always, my camera was with me. On this particular dull day, I only took my camera and not my camera bag, as I felt it was not my type of weather for my photos.

I had one frame left though and when I noticed registration C-GXRA taxi between C-FDJC and C-GXRD, 'Click'.

I was so pleased I got this one in. Can you imagine the surprise I got, when moments later, one of our DC-10's landed, and no more frames left to use, ha ha ha?"

Editors' Note: The upper level of the multi-storey parking garage in the middle of Toronto's original Terminal 1 had a wonderful view of the tarmac.

Posted to the CP Air InFlight Family page. by David Lehman.

CP Air retirement momento. 

Posted by Alex McPhee 

PWA Helicopter Division CF-JCL 1957 at Fifteen Mile River, Yukon. The post received several comments from people who were unaware of this division at PWA.