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An Introduction to Canadian Airmail Postal History

Canadian First Flight Covers Canadian Aerophilately is best known for the attractive, numerous and generally affordable First Flight Covers, produced from 1928 to 1939 as the Post Office introduced new air mail services. This was a time when interest in both aviation and stamp collecting was intense and First Flight Covers which combined the two […]

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Recognizing the 75th Anniversary of the Official Airmail Flights by Commercial Airways to the Western Arctic — November 1929 – January 1930

Summary CAS Western Chapter’s 75th-anniversary tribute to Commercial Airways’ 1929–1930 inaugural airmail flights down the Mackenzie to Aklavik, with flight roster, poster reproductions, and postmaster-signed souvenir cards. — Issued by the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society’s Western Chapter, Recognizing the 75th Anniversary of the Official Airmail Flights by Commercial Airways to the Western Arctic — November 1929 – […]

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Canada’s Love Affair with Katherine Stinson

Gordon Mallett traces Katherine Stinson's 1916–1918 Canadian tours through vintage postcards and letters, culminating in her July 9, 1918 Calgary-to-Edmonton flight carrying Western Canada's first aerial mail.

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A Philatelic Biography of Major (Rtd.) Richard K. Malott, CD, M.Sc., B.A. 1927 -2020

Life and philatelic career of Major Dick Malott (1927–2020), Canada's foremost aerophilatelist, RCAF navigator, war museum curator, CAS founder, and international exhibitor.

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New research on Canada’s 5 cents Air Mail rate — 1928

Summary Chris Hargreaves resolves conflicting dates for Canada’s 1928 5¢ airmail rate, establishing August 1 for mail to the USA and October 1 for domestic service.  — For years, philatelic literature has given conflicting dates for when Canada’s 5¢ first-ounce / 10¢ each additional ounce airmail rate came into effect — both for mail to […]

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The St. Lawrence Air Mail Service, 1927–1939

Chris Hargreaves traces Canada's first continuing government-paid airmail: the Rimouski–Montreal seaplane relay that met Trans-Atlantic liners at Father Point, from its 1927 crash-and-recovery start through its 1939 wartime end.

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The “Boxed” Air Mail Hand Stamp Re-visited

Murray Heifetz classifies Canada's "Air Mail" boxed handstamp used from 1928 onward, cataloguing type variants by lettering, size, frame breaks, colour, cities, and earliest recorded dates.

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The First Official Canadian Airmail Designation — 1928

Summary Murray Heifetz classifies the 1928 “This Mail Was Carried by Postal Airplane” cachets of Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa by size, spacing, and ink colour. — When Canada launched its first contract airmail routes in the spring of 1928, the Post Office needed a way to visibly designate that a cover had travelled by plane. […]