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KIDS ZONE
Age 12-14 Nine Stamps, One Big Adventure, one page to collect them on Long before email or text messages, people waited weeks for letters to cross oceans and mountains. Then came airplanes — and mail suddenly flew. Between 1928 and 1946, Canada issued just nine official airmail stamps, numbered C1 through C9. Together they tell […]
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Age 6-8 One hundred years ago, these brave pilots flew high above the Atlantic Ocean carrying a special mail from London, Ontario to London, England. What colour do you think their plane was? Hint: The plane had the same colours as the special stamps that were used on the letters sent from London, Ontario to […]
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Age 10+ Newfoundland’s Wild Spring of Airplanes, Mailbags and Stamps Imagine standing on a windy field in Newfoundland in the spring of 1919. In front of you sits a wooden biplane with two open cockpits. Its engine sputters and coughs. A small mailbag is tied inside. Beyond the trees lies two thousand miles of cold, […]
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Age 12+ Newfoundland’s 1932 Dornier Do X Adventure Imagine looking across a quiet Newfoundland bay and seeing something as large as a ship dropping out of the clouds. Twelve engines roar above a giant wing. Below it hangs a three-storey hull built to land on water. This is not a strange ocean liner or a […]
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Age: 10+ Sidney Cotton’s Great Winter Adventure Imagine that you are standing on a frozen bay in Newfoundland. Snow blows across the ice. In front of you sits a small aeroplane with wooden wings and skis instead of wheels. Its engine coughs in the cold. A bag of letters is waiting to be loaded. Far […]
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Age: 10+ Imagine flying over the Atlantic Ocean in a small airplane made of wood, cloth and metal. There is no GPS. There is no weather radar. You cannot radio home if you get into trouble. That is what two Canadian airmen tried to do in 1927. Their names were Captain Terence “Terry” Tully and […]
