Books, catalogues and periodicals in the library can be searched for information on particular topics, and photocopies supplied to members at cost.

For more information contact:

Chris Hargreaves, 4060 Bath Road, Kingston, Ontario K7M 4Y4
Email: hargreavescp@sympatico.ca

Title	Author and Notes
The Pioneer and Semi-Official Air Mails of Canada 1918-1934	C.A. Longworth-Dames
Air Mail in Alberta 1918 to 2006	Denny May
Air Mails of Canada 1925-1939	George B. Arfken and Walter R. Plomish
Official Air Mail Rates to Foreign and Overseas Destinations as Established by the Canadian Post Office: 1925 – December 1942	David Whiteley
Schedules and Rates – Air Mail Services	Published by the Canadian Post Office March 1939.
Newfoundland Air Mail Postage 1937 – 1949	Jack Ince. Reproduces original announcements and rate tables from the Newfoundland Post Office circulars.
Newfoundland Specialized Stamp Catalogue, 6th edition 2006.	John M. Walsh and John G.Butt
Airmail Catalogue: Canada and Newfoundland	Smith, Crouch, and Jarrett 1930.
The Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Airmails	Ian C. Morgan 1931.
A Study of the Air Mail Labels and Air Mail Markings Found on Canadian Mail	David Hanes
St. Lawrence Seaway – Ship to Shore Air Mail Covers, 1927-1934.	Jack Ince  A copy of his collection: each cover is written up with details of the route, rate, and developments in the service.
Finding Guide to the Richard K. Malott Collection of Documents on The Development of Canadian Air Mail Services	Produced by the National Archives of Canada.
Canadian Air Mail articles	Collected by Nelson Bentley.
Newfoundland Air Mail articles	Collected by Don Wilson.
Harmers of London Auction Catalogues	For various sales, including: Newfoundland Airmails – the collection of Cyril H.C. Harmer, 26th February 2002 The “Labrador” Collection of Newfoundland Airmails, 25th February 2003
Charles G. Firby Auction Catalogues	For various sales, including: Semi-Official Airmails of Canada – the collection of Robert H. Jamieson, 15th October 1998. Canadian Airposts – Pioneer and Semi-Official stamps and covers – part of the collection of Murray Heifetz, 20th February 1999.
The Airpost Journal (published by the American Air Mail Society)	January 1947 to January 1950; and July 1964 to present.
Jack Knight Air Log	#1 (November 1943) to present.
The Canadian Civil Aircraft Register	John R. Ellis Part 1: G-CAAA to G-CAXP (1920 to 1928), and Part 2: CF-AAA to CF-ACG (1929 to 1945), published by the Canadian Aviation Historical Society.
The Challenge of the Atlantic – A photo-illustrated history of early aviation in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland.	Bill Parsons
Wings Across the Water – Victoria’s Flying Heritage 1871-1971	Elwood White and Peter L. Smith
Sixty Years – The RCAF and Canadian Forces Air Command, 1924-1984.
Bent Props and Blow Pots – A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying	Rex Terpening
Air Mail, an Illustrated History 1793 – 1981.	Donald Holmes
Flying the Mail.	From the Time-life Epic of Flight Series.
OAT and AV2 Markings.	Murray Heifetz (AAMS publication – Second and Third Editions.)
Jusqu’a Airmail Markings.	Ian McQueen “A Study” (published 1993), and Supplement (1995).
Recovered Mail	Henri Nierinck First edition, 1918-1978; and second edition 1937-1988.
Airmail Operations During World War II.	Thomas H. Boyle Jr. A worldwide study.
Bridging the Continents in Wartime.	Hans E. Aitnik and Egbert Hovenkamp
Wartime Air Mail – an introduction	John Daynes. British and Swiss documents.
Intercepted in Bermuda, The Censorship of Transatlantic Mail during the Second World War.	Peter A. Flynn
The Suspension of United States Mail to Switzerland – 1942 to 1944/1945.	Charles Lablonde
American Air Mail Catalogue	Sixth edition Volumes 1, 2 and 3, and various volumes in the 4th and 5th editions.
Historical Souvenir Airmail Cover Catalog.	A.C. Roessler. Second Edition, 1932.
Sanabria Airmail Catalogue – North America, 1995.
Aircraft on Stamps Checklist	Barry Lewis
The Pioneer Airplane Mails of the United States	Thomas J. O’Sullivan (AAMS publication.)
Aerial Mail Service – A Chronology of the Early U.S. Governmental Air Mail, March – December 1918.	A.D. Jones (AAMS publication.)
The Mass Flights of Italo Balbo – The Flights of 1928, 1929, 1930 & 1933 – A History & Catalog of their Postal Artifacts	Robert E. Lana (AAMS publication.)
Scottish Air Mails, 1919-1979	Richard Beith.
Balloon Post of the Siege of Paris, 1870-71.	Louis Chaintrier (AAMS publication.)
African Air Mail research notes.	Documents donated by Jack Ince, and a photocopy of his collection.
Schweizerisches Luftpost Handbuch	1984. – The Swiss air mail catalogue: in German.
New Zealand Airmails	Charles Leski Auctions catalogue, April 19th 2004, for the sale of Mike Shand’s collection
Combi Mail	Van Dieten Stamp Auctions catalogue, May 27th 2004, for the sale of Frans van Beveren’s collection.
A Tradition of Excellence- Canada’s Airshow Team Heritage	Dan Dempsey Contains 768 pages and over 1,800 photos. The book takes a look at the politics behind the creation and disbanding of various teams, and provides a wide-ranging history of military aviation in Canada from a different perspective.
The Horseshoe Route	Published by Chavril Press. A short guide to the carriage of mail in World War II by air around the Indian Ocean from New Zealand and Australia to South Africa, and then to England by sea.
Undercover Addresses of World War II	Published by Chavril Press. Details of over 340 secret addresses in 39 countries and territories used by Czechoslovaks serving in the Royal Air Force.
British South American Airways: 1946-1949	Richard Beith Designed as a source book for aerophilatelists, it includes notes on previous British attempts to introduce a South Atlantic airmail serivce, timetables, fleet lists, and many covers.
Phillips- Air Mail Magazine	Published in England between June 1929 and October 1944. Nine copies available.
The Aero Field	A complete run from March 1970 to June 1983. This was published by Francis J. Field, who was for a long time the premier aerophilatelic dealer in Great Britain.
Air Transport Label Catalog	published by Don Thomas in the 1970’s: Vol 1 section 1 Europe-Germany; Vol 1 section 2 Europe-France and section 3 Belgium, Netherlands and Dutch Indies; Vol 4 Latin America.
The Airpost Journal	we now have a large number of back issues from when it was first published by the AAMS in October 1931 up to 1946, and an almost complete run from 1947 to present.
The Stardard Airpost Catalogue- 1933 edition	published by The Berkshire Exchange.
Catalogue Des Aerogrammes Du Monde Entier	Frank Muller A comprehensive listing of First Flight Covers from around the world.
Airmails 1870-1970	James MacKay A chronological approach to the development of airmail.
Rocket Mail FLights of the World to 1986	Dr. Max Kronstein. This book contains a lot of information about experiments in unmanned, high speed aerial mail delivery in the 1930’s, and very little about the space-exploration trpe rockets.
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines 1946-1954	Laurence Kimpton. A beautiful book that describes the various airline services from Vancouver to Australia and New Zealand with lots of illustrations and covers.
A History of the World’s Airlines	R.E.G. Davies. Photocopied extracts.
Farther and Faster: Aviation’s Adventuring Years, 1909-1939	Terry Gwynn-Jones. A history of aviation tat focuses on speed and distance records.
The Time Shrinkers- Africa	David Jones. The development of Civil Aviation between Britain and Africa, up to 1953.
Imperial Airways and the first British airlines, 1919-40	A.S. Jackson 165 pages: lots of information and illustrations.
Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways’ African Route, 1931-39	Peter Wingent Records of some 2000 flights: flight numbers, dates, intermediate stops, and aircraft used.
The GUBA story. A tribute to an elderly lady	John Wilson The “lady” was a Catalina flying boat, that flew and carried mail in various places around the world, from 1937 to 1945.
Wartime Air Mail- An Introduction	John Daynes Details of air mail routes, as described in Post Office reports from Britain and Switzerland.
Reports of the Progress of Civil Aviation 1939-45	John Wilson Extensive extracts from reports produced for the British Government at the end of each year.
Imperial and Foreign Air Mail Services	Extracts from British Post Offics Circulars, various dates between May 27, 1942 and August 23, 1944.
British Empire Civil Censorship Devices World War II- Trinidad and Tobago	R.G. Wike Includes information on British and U.S. censor numbers.
West African Censorship, World War I and II	J.J. Martin and F.L. Walton Produced by the West Africa Study Circle, it covers Ascension, Cameroon, Gambia, Gold Coast, Nigeria, St. Helena, Sierra Leone and Togo.
French Postal Censorship in the Levant, September 1939-July 1941	D. Zimmerman Extracts from “The Bulletin of the Civil Censorship Studygroup”.
The Postal History of the British Niger Coast to 1900	Jack Ince In Opusculum 1: an anthology of philatelic and historical papers, published by The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada Philatelic Research Foundation, 1995.
American Airmail Catalogue- 2nd Edition, Volume 2	Includes seperate sections for Canada on Pioneer Flights, Semi-Official Flights, and Government Flights.
American Airmail Catalogue of Air Letter Sheets including Military and POW Air Letter Cards	A world wide catalogue of airletters/aerogrammes with “an impression of a postage stamp” or other marking to indicate postage has been paid.
Slogan Postmarks of Canada-3rd Edition	Cecil C. Coutts Now 307 pages. Records slogan wording, where used and period used.
The Postal History of World War II Mail Between Canada and Switzerland	Charles LaBlonde and John Tyacke Covers most aspects of censorship in Canada.
Intercontinental Airmails, Volume 1, Transatlantic and Pacific	Edward Proud Historical Descriptions, schedules, and lots of rates, up to 1945.