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

Post OPAS Resignation in 1934

Aviation Consultant to EP Taylor and British North American Airways "BNAA"

Formed Baillie Maxwell Flying Service, Nakina, Ontario (sold to Austin Airways in 1942)

Joined RCAF in 1939 and was posted to Western Air Command Station Tofino

Maxwell rose to Rank of Wing Commander

Resigned Commission 1943 (ill health)

Died March 15, 1946 in Red Chevron Military Hospice, Toronto

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His continued absence from membership in the CAHF in my opinion is a gross oversight and an injustice to this man’s memory ... a pilot who made significant and major contributions to early Canadian Commercial Aviation history. These contributions were equal if not beyond the measure of any other contributions achieved by his peer group of the same era that have previously been inducted into the CAHF.

Robert Galway B.A., M.D., FRCS(C)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpts from other sources:

The “Maxwell Flight of the Lark” Pogomasing Lake Story (1926) by Andy Thompson is to be found at;

Flight of the Curtiss Lark to Red Lake - 1926

Porcupine Advance, 21 Mar 1929, Section 1, p. 8 Text "Captain Roy Maxwell brings injured Minister out of Moose Factory," Timmins Public Library

Porcupine Advance, 5 Mar 1924, Section 1, p. 7 The Department of Lands and Forests is now the Ministry of Natural Resources Text “Captain W.R. Maxwell is in charge of the new Forest Flying Service for the Department of Lands and Forests” Timmins Public Library

Porcupine Advance, 28 Mar 1929, Section 3, p. 8 Text "Dr. Paul's methods to travel from Cochrane to Moose Factory on a mercy mission for the injured Reverend G. Morrow," Timmins Public Library

It wouldn't be long before the aircraft would be reaching into the hinterlands of Ontario. On August 17, 1920, Roy Maxwell, a former Royal Air Force captain, accompanied by engineer Geordie Doan made the first flight into James Bay. They flew from an airbase at Remi Lake, near Kapuskasing, into Moose Factory in an H-Boat.

Only 11 days later, August 28, 1920, this same crew completed the first ambulance flight in northern Canada, flying a gentleman from Moose Factory to Remi Lake. This was not the only occasion that Maxwell made a mercy flight to evacuate a sick patient from Moose factory. Porcupine Advance, 21 Mar 1929, Section 1, p. 8

Captain Roy Maxwell brings injured Minister out of Moose Factory "Captain Roy Maxwell brings injured Minister out of Moose Factory," Timmins Public Library