CATP MUSEUM NEWS EVENTS FOR 2018
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On November 11th, Remembrance
Day
Free Open House 1pm to 4pm
at the
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Museum
and
RCAF WWII Memorial
(Hangar #1, Brandon Municipal
Airport)
Guided tours will be available.
The museum’s Ladies Auxiliary
will be providing coffee and Timbits.
For more information call the
museum at 727-2444
COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN MUSEUM
Magazine: Volume 36 No. 4
Fall 2018
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It HERE
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The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of
World War II was the largest infrastructure program Canada had ever seen,
surpassing the construction of the transatlantic railway. The training
establishments changed the social and economic conditions in many communities
forever. The influx of 1,500 or more trainees and staff suddenly added
to communities across Manitoba, and after the war ended many of the B.C.A.T.P.
buildings became community halls, hockey rinks, housing, and business structures.
Not surprising, with young men & women from all parts of Canada coming
together during training, it was probably one of the greatest unifying
forces in our history.
That history is preserved at the Commonwealth Air Training
Plan Museum and on August 9th we can see, touch and watch that history
fly again!
The CATPM Air Display Event on August 9th will feature
the air museum’s own WWII flying aircraft, including the Canadian and British
Tiger Moths, our Harvard, our Cornell and Stinson. We are also very excited
to have a number of private aircraft, two Stearman, a Harvard and a T-28
Trojan!
Gates open 4pm, $10 per person, 12 and under free. The
RCA Museum will have a display on site. Food vendors on site. Come
see the historic aircraft up close, bring a lawn chair a Flying Demonstration
will take place at 6:00 pm, weather permitting.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is Canada’s
only air museum solely dedicated to the preservation of those who trained
and fought for the British Commonwealth during WWII.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is proud to
be one of the seven Manitoba Signature Museums, a Manitoba Star Attraction
and a National Historic Site.
For more information about the CATPM’s event, please contact:
Stephen Hayter, Executive Director
Ph: 727-2444 Fax:725-2334
Email: airmuseum@inetlink.ca
As You Were. . . August 2018 Webzine
CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE
PARTS I & II
http://www.hillmanweb.com/war/2018/1808.html
http://www.hillmanweb.com/war/2018/1808a.html
B-17 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
Friday, August 23, 1996 - Monday, August 26, 1996
Photos from the Garry Bolton Collection
AS YOU WERE . . . July 2018 Webzine
www.hillmanweb.com/war/2018/1807.html
www.hillmanweb.com/war/2018/1807a.html
GEORGE COX OF THE RAF
Over 100 Photos Taken
While in Canada in the BCATP '42/'43
31 SFTS Training and Repair
Squadron ~ Kingston, Ontario
The Dinsdale Family hosted a special event at the
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum,
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018 at 10:30am
The museum is honoured to have the Dinsdale Family
donate
Walter Dinsdale’s WWII weapons.
Included POW artifacts were also donated by family
members
from the collections of the late Charles Shierlaw
and Leslie Anderson from Stalag lll
The presentation took place in front of the Dinsdale
Display in the main gallery.
The weapons in question were transferred from the Canadian
War Museum
to Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum collection.
MANITOBA’S BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATED WITH AIR MUSEUM
FREE OPEN HOUSE
In honour of Manitoba’s 148th birthday, the Commonwealth
Air Training Plan Museum, Canada’s only air museum solely dedicated
to the preservation of those who trained and fought for the British Commonwealth
during WWII is hosting a free open house on May 12 from 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. at the Brandon Municipal Airport.
Visitors will be invited to travel back to the 1940s while
touring a WWII vintage hangar serving as a display area for aircraft, vehicles
and hundreds of artifacts from that era. Manitoban RCAF that lost
their lives during WWII are honoured on the museum’s RCAF WWII Memorial
wall.
May 1st begins our new summer hours, 10 am to 4 pm, seven
days a week until the end of September.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is Canada’s
only air museum solely dedicated to the preservation of those who trained
and fought for the British Commonwealth during WWII.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is proud to
be one of the seven Manitoba Signature Museums, a Manitoba Star Attraction
and a National Historic Site. Visit the CATP Museum located at Brandon
Municipal Airport, on HW #10, 1.6 km north of the City of Brandon.
For more information about the CATPM’s Manitoba Day Open
House, please contact:
Stephen Hayter, Executive Director
Ph: 727-2444 Fax:725-2334 Email: airmuseum@inetlink.ca
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High Commissioner of New Zealand Visit
A special event at the Brandon Air Museum at 1:30pm,
May 1st.
The High Commissioner of New Zealand to Canada, His Excellency
Daniel Mellsop, will undertake an official visit to the Commonwealth
Air Training Plan Museum on Tuesday 1 May. Mr Mellsop’s visit is intended
to acknowledge the service of the New Zealand personnel who trained in
Canada during WWII, and to highlight this important connection between
New Zealand and Canada.
During the course of the war, some 8500 New Zealand pilots
and air crew undertook training in Canada under the British Commonwealth
Air Training Plan. These personnel went on to serve in Europe, the
Middle East and the Far East theatres. The 84 New Zealand personnel who
lost their lives in training accidents are commemorated in Canada.
The visit will also hold personal significance to Mr Mellsop,
whose grandfather, Pilot Officer John Basil Bretherton, DFC, undertook
his pilot training in Brandon in 1942, and went on to serve in the European
and Far East theatres.
At 1:30pm there will be a short presentation outside by
the RCAF WWII Memorial and the High Commissioner would like the media to
attend. Following he will go for a flight in the museum’s Harvard aircraft.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is Canada’s
only air museum solely dedicated to the preservation of those who trained
and fought for the British Commonwealth during WWII.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is proud to
be one of the seven Manitoba Signature Museums, a Manitoba Star Attraction
and a National Historic Site.
For more information about the CATPM’s event, please contact:
Stephen Hayter, Executive Director
Ph: 727-2444 Fax:725-2334 Email: airmuseum@inetlink.ca
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Canada 150 Vignette Series
Visit all 150 stories with over 600 illustrations
www.airmuseum.ca/150
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CANADA 150
INTRO and CONTENTS PAGE
ILLUSTRATED
CONTENTS 1
ILLUSTRATED
CONTENTS 2
PHOTO
COLLAGES I: 1-15
PHOTO
COLLAGES II: 16-30
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In Celebration of Canada's 150th Birthday
Greg Sigurdson has embarked on an ambitious project.
He is presenting 150 Vignettes
showcasing memorable events and photos
from the BCATP and WWII years.
This has become a regular feature in our
Museum
Facebook Group
and we are adapting them to a series of
30 fully-illustrated Webpages at:
www.airmuseum.ca/150
To date we have displayed over 20 of these gems.
Readers of the CATP Air Museum site are invited to
follow along
as we progress toward our goal of 150 memories.
~ Bill Hillman ~ Volunteer Editor and Webmaster for
www.airmuseum.ca |
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