Captain Roy Maxwell is an intriguing figure in Canadian Aviation History.

Captain Roy Maxwell is an intriguing figure in Canadian Aviation History. His accomplishments are many. Some of these accomplishments are the stuff of which legends are made.

From: drgalway@hotmail.com To: leslie.balla094@sympatico.ca
Subject: Why Capt. Roy Maxwell should be in the CAHF
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:53:13 +0000

OUTLINE OF APPLICATION FOR INDUCTION INTO THE CAHF

Capt Wm. Roy Maxwell Biography - click to access file

Born June 14, 1892 in Toronto, Ontario to William H. Maxwell and Reubena Maxwell née Bell of Hamilton Ontario (Census 1901, 1911).
One sister, Hazel Maxwell b.1894
m. Dora E Louise Hazell Sept 2, 1918 in Wentworth County, Ontario.
divorced in 1927

Died March 15,1946 in Toronto

1.] WWI RFC & RAF Pilot/Instructor in Canada
(but he was overseas as he returned on The Royal George - February 20, 1919)

2.] Post War Barnstormer - Canadian License #34

3.] Pilot and Partner of Canadian Aero Film Company, Burlington, Ont. 1919-1920

4.] Successor pilot to Stuart Graham at Laurentide Pulp & Paper Co.,Grandmere, PQ and then co-founder and Chief Pilot of Laurentide Air Service - 1920/1921

5.] Led the expansion of LAS across PQ and Northern Ontario. (1920 - 1924)

6.] First Medivac in Canada flew from Remi Lake (Moonbeam, Ontario) to Moose Factory and evacuated a patient (a Mr. Thompson)with a brain abscess due to mastoiditis from Moose Factory to Cochrane - August 28, 1920. (While on a Canadian Aero Film Co. Project)

7.] First airmail carried by a commercial Operator in Canada ten (10) days later from Remi Lake to Moose Factory.

8.] First Commercial Passenger Service of LAS - Haileybury to Rouyn|Noranda. (1924)

9.] First Semi-Official Airmail Stamp printed in Canada by a “Bush” Air Service (LAS:1924)

10.] First Chief Pilot of Ontario Provincial Air Service OPAS.(1924-1934) The pilots under his supervision comprise a Who`s Who list of Canadian Bush Pilots including Harold Oaks, Fred Stevenson, Romeo Vachon, Frank MacDougall, Terry Tully, Duke Schiller etc.

11.] Flew the Curtiss `Lark` in its epic flight from New Jersey to Buffalo, then Toronto, Sudbury, Pogomasing, Sioux Lookout and on to Red Lake (March|April 1926) for Patricia Airways & Exploration.

12.] February, 1922: first winter flight to James Bay, flying an Avro 504K
with Hevre St. Martin (On a Petroleum Exploration assignment)

These above accomplishments alone justify his nomination and appointment to the CAHF.