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- OBJECT TYPE
- Canada/official
- DATE
- 1932
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1998.0585.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Canadian Prairie Air Mail
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- PAPER
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 9.2 cm
- Width
- 16.5 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Commemorative
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Manitoba
- Period
- Postmarked March 30, 1932
- Canada
-
Cover commemorates the last flights in the Prairies due to the depression cut backs - Function
-
SENT THROUGH THE MAIL FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A COLLECTIBLE ITEM - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- First Canada post stamp reads: "CANADA/ POSTES/ POSTAGE/ AIR/ 5/ CENTS/ 5"/ Second Canada Post Stamp: "CANADA/ POSTES/ POSTAGE/ 1/ CENTS/ 1"/ Circular postmark: "WINNIPEG/ 7 PM/ MAR 30/ 1932/ MANITOBA"/ Typewritten address: "Colonel R.H. Mulock,/ Canadian Airways,/ Montreal, P.Q."/ Print: "486"/ Cachet reads: "THE END OF A GREAT ENTERPRISE?/ CARTOON FROM WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, MARCH 6, 1932/ CANADIAN PRAIRIE AIR MAIL/ Length of route, 991 1[/]2 miles. Contract price per annum $481,869.00/ EXPERIMENTAL FIRST FLIGHT, DEC 10TH, 1928/ Pilots: Buchanan, Calder, Dickens, Farrington, Westergaard./ INAUGURAL CONTRACT FLIGHT, MARCH 3rd, 1930/ Pilots: Brown, Buchanan, Farrell, Hollick-Kenyon, McLaren./ LAST CONTACT FLIGHT, MARCH 30th, 1932/ Pilots: Ashton, Calder, Farrell, Hollick-Kenyon, Jarvis, Moar, Stull"/ Circular postmark on back of cover: "CALGARY ALBERTA/ 5/ MR 31/ 32"/ continued in notes
- Missing
- Complete
- Finish
- Cream coloured cover with red and blue design around edges/ black cachet
- Decoration
- Cachet depicts a cartoon published in the Winnipeg Free Press (March 6,1932) of a crashed air mail aircraft
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Unknown Manufacturer, Cover, 1932, Artifact no. 1998.0585, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1998.0585.001/
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