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Air mail album [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

File

Date:

1929-1933.

Reference:

Box number: 3612

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

157653

Context of this record:

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Post Office Department fonds

Postmaster General

Air mail album
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Date(s):

1929-1933.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 album (124 photographs) : b&w.

Language of material:

English

Accession:

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Mackenzie River airmail album [graphic material]

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Album contains photographs documenting the activities of the air mail and postal service operated by Commercial Airways Ltd. from Fort McMurray, Alberta to Aklavik, Northwest Territories, along the Mackenzie River. Included is a map of the route and detailed notes accompany each photograph.

According to an inscription at the beginning of the album, it was prepared by R.W. Hale (District Superintendent of the Postal Service) with C.H. (Punch) Dickins, District Superintendent, Canadian Airways; W.R. (Wop) May, Chief Pilot, Canadian Airways; C.Y. Becker, Managing Director of Commercial Airways; Louis Romanet; John Michaels and H.C. Neal.

Photographs were taken in the following locations: Fort McMurray; Fort Chipewyan; Fort Fitzgerald; Fort Smith; For Resolution; Hay River; Fort Providence; Fort Simpson; Fort Norman; Aklavik; Fort Rae; Camsell River; Great Bear Lake; Contact Lake Mine; Eldorado Mine; Herschel Island; and Coppermine.

The following people are depicted: F.X.J. Leger; C. Becker; G.H. Rocke; W.R. "Wop" May; Mr. Petty; Col. J.K. Cornwall; Mr. W. McDougall; T.J. Reilly; Pilot C.H. "Punch" Dickins; Lou Parmenter; Glynn Roberts; Bishop Geddes; John Michaels; Fr. LaPerriere; R.W. Hale; Walter Gilbert; H.C. Neal; Mrs. Gerhart; F.B. Watt; Tim Sims; Mr. Soloway; John Bythell; and Will Spence. Also included are photographs of unidentified Inuit women and men.

Subjects that are also depicted include Bellancas; a Lockheed Vega; and the RCMP boat St. Roch.

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Graphic material (Electronic) Some of the album page and individual photograph descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" field in the record. (90: Open)

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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1936-260 NPC
R169
RG3

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1936-260 NPC
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Graphic (photo)

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Box [CANADA. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 1936-260] 3612

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Copyright: Expired.

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