Early B.C. Air Mail
Air Mail to or from British Columbia: 1920 to 1945
Presented to the Bakers Club, 11 January 2012
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Table of contents
1 Title Page
2 BC's Early Air Mail Routes
3 Four Important Mail Routes 1920-1938
4 FAM-2: First Regular Air Mail g
5 Later FAM-2 covers. Most are contrived
6 A Commercial Cover, 1930
7 Until 1938, BC's air routes were those of Seattle
8 Victoria to Los Angeles – 1926
9 Trans-Continental - 1927
10 Trans-Continental - 1928
11 New Rate Structure – August 1, 1928
12 Domestic Air Mail – To Atlin, 1928
13 Victoria-Vancouver: B.C. Airways Ltd. - 1928
14 Vancouver-Victoria-Nanaimo: Sept 13, 1930
15 Vancouver–Victoria Service – August 1931
16 The Next Link: Vancouver-Seattle
17 Toronto to Victoria via Seattle - 1937
18 Trans-Canada Airlines - 1938
19 TCA's first fatal accident. November 18, 1938
20 A Second Cover from the 1938 TCA Wreck
21 Some other wrecks involving BC mail. All in the U.S.
22 Hatzic, B.C. (Jan. 21, 1931) to Mexico. Delayed by plane crash.
23 Vancouver (Jan. 21, 1931) to Toronto. 3 line Washougal handstamp 3-line Washougal handstamp.
24 St. Petersburg, Fla. (May 27, 1932) to Vancouver
25 New York to Vancouver Feb. 24, 1933; Crash at Toledo Ohio Feb 25th
26 New York City To Wells, B.C. Oct. 1941
27 Overseas and International Air Mail International Air Ma
28 Victoria to GB – October 1928
29 Rates soon became inclusive
30 Trans-Atlantic Air Mails - Catapult Flight, 1931
31 Trans-Pacific – Ocean Leg by Ship
32 San Francisco to Manila via Honolulu and Guam: October 1935
33 Extension to Macao and Hong Kong – April 1937
34 Shanghai to Quesnel, July 29, 1937
35 Empire Air Mail (All-Up) Scheme
36 Air Mails Flown across the Atlantic
37 Vancouver to Rotterdam – both Sept. 5, 1939
38 Influence of World War II on air mails
39 Horseshoe Route
40 Cairo (May 22, 1940) to Victoria
41 Cairo ( August 18, 1941) to Victoria
42 Post-December 1941: Back to Trans-Atlantic
43 Vancouver to Malta: Mailed March 8, 1944
44 End Page