by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | History
Cherry Red Airline, also known as the Cherry Air Service, was the first airline in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The company founded by Norman Cherry and H. Holroyde in 1928. Cherry had noticed an unmet demand for transportation services by mines in Saskatchewan...
by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | History
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War (WWI) to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed. The plaque 4.75 inches (120 mm) in diameter, were cast in bronze and came to be known as the “Dead Man’s Penny”,...
by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | History
M & C Aviation was founded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in 1930 by private pilots Richmond Mayson and Angus Campbell. They soon moved their firm to Prince Albert, where it flew chartered flights into northern Saskatchewan. This bush-flying firm survived the Great...
by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | History
Saskatchewan Government Airways – the government owned commercial airline, was formed through Order In Council No. 1200/47 on August 15, 1947. The governments goal was to use aircraft to open the province’s vast north to develop the northern half of the...
by funp4 | Mar 9, 2020 | History
The Saskatchewan Aviation Historical Society Inc. produced a 45 Minute documentary in 2016 on the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Saskatchewan (BCATP). It explains what Saskatchewan contributed to the war effort of WW2 and what Saskatchewan received in...
by funp4 | Mar 9, 2020 | History
One of the first and most important contributions our country would make to the war (WWII) effort would be the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). 17 December 1939 – The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan agreement was signed in the opening...
