It would help in our museum operations and also keep equipment that may be headed to the landfill in use.

Please contact Michael White at email  mga1937@hotmail.com if you can help.   PC units are the need as we have monitors to use with them.

The guest speaker will be Mr Ken Beanlands – retired from Newfoundland Lands and Forests after a 42 year career. He began his career in Nova Scotia with the Lands and Forest Department but,  after being exposed to Newfoundland’s loan of Canso Water Bombers to N.S., he went to Newfoundland for the summer and made his career there.

Ken has had a fascinating career, is a pilot, has been an aircraft owner, and has also been involved with the recovery of Hurricane and other aircraft wrecks. He has a slideshow presentation, is an excellent speaker, and we are indeed pleased he has agreed to be with us.

This is chance to also hear about the progress of your Museum and to meet again with others who share your interest in ACAM. Our thanks go to Brian Chappell for making the arrangements for the location and the guest speaker. We hope for a large attendance. Refreshments will be served. Brian’s directions to the meeting location follow:

• Turn onto Bedford Hwy or Hwy 101
• West from Bedford interchange at TCH 102.
• Continue onto Hwy 101 – 4.7 Km to
• Beaver Bank Road exit off 101 – then turn onto
• Beaver Bank Rd (signs for NS-354 N)
• Destination will be on the right – 8.7 Km

- 1583 Beaver Bank Road – Beaver Bank, N.S..

REG CLARKE

In 1978 a group was brought together by Robert G Grantham, a current Life Member of ACAM, to form the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum Society. The Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, as we now know it, was formed immediately after. Now, some 35 years later, this volunteer Museum has grown to be a significant preserver of the rich aviation history of this region. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of so many who volunteer their time and efforts, the Museum continues to develop and to provide Nova Scotia with a volunteer institution of which it can be truly proud.

The year 2012 saw continued improvements in the Museum displays and restorations. Unfortunately December also saw
the passing of long time Curator, and Museum founding member, Reg Clarke. His dedication will long be remembered.

CHAIRMAN’S COMMENTS

“With spring in the near future, once again it is time to get our hands dirty at the Museum. One big project is the  fabrication of 70 plus pylons to hold the new barrier chain that will enclose our display aircraft, aero engines, and other large items.

Argus simulator, and various engines is also taking place. Other projects will include new displays, completing ones already started, organizing the amazing Reg Clarke collection of models, photos, books, and other historical items. Reg, you will be missed, and yes, we will take good care of your collection and display it in the manner that it deserves.
Dave McMahon

Regional Travel Sites

• Nova Scotia Seacoast Vacation Packages
• Nova Scotia Family Vacations
• Destination Halifax
• Halifax Municipality Visitor Information
• Peggy’s Cove Region Tourism
• Antigonish Eastern Shore Tourism Association
• Destination Cape Breton
• Cabot Trail Cape Breton
• Destination SouthWest Nova
• Central Nova Toursim
• Pictou County Tourism
• Yarmouth Area & Acadian Shore

Other Great Sites 

• Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia Dining Directory
• Nova Scotia Provincial Parks
• Great Travel Site for Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia Bed and Breakfast Association
• Campground Owners Association of Nova Scotia
• Historic Halifax Public Gardens
• Ethno-cultural History of Nova Scotia
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• Nova Scotia Lighthouses
• Nova Scotia Adventure Tourism Association
• Coastal Communites Network
• Sheet Harbour & Taylor Head Park
• Bay of Fundy Tourism

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“As Seen in the Skies” of Atlantic Canada is an opportunity for amateur photographers to post their pictures on our facebook site. You do not have to be a museum member to contribute.  Please post your pictures under the Aircraft Model album or in the Misc Individual Pictures Album.   Visit our Facebook Site : Please also include the following information Registration or Serial: (If available)    Home Base:   Date:   Location:   Photographer

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If you have original poetry or compositions that you would like to submit, please feel free to E-mail them to us:

“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.”  – Unknown
“God and soldier all men adore,
In times of danger and not before.
When the danger is past and all things righted,
God is forgotten, and the old soldier slighted.”
- Friar Tuck

Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee No 412 squadron, RCAF  Killed 11 December 1941
High Flight

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I”ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds–and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of–wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

I”ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue

I”ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew.

And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

(Written by Cape Breton native, Floyd Williston, September 1985 after
visiting the Runnymede War Memorial in Surrey, England) This verse (in memory of my two brothers, F/Sgt’s. Albert and David Williston) is from my book. Through Footless Halls of Air. A new edition has been released ($29.95)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol3/no13/footless.html

I’ve stood
In solemn reverance
By a well kept grave
In Berlin’s War Cemetery.
With misty eyes , I placed
Before the stone tablet
A spray of store-bought flowers;
And I remembered-Albert.

I’ve gazed
Again through tear-filled eyes
At the Portland Stone Walls
Of the Runnymede War Memorial.
I read the names
Until I reach the letter W
My mind’s eye reads aloud;
And, I remembered-Dave.

I’ve walked
With silent footsteps
The carpeted aisle
Of London’s St.Clement Danes Church.
The Book of Remembrance is open
I read the names of thousands of aviators
But I’ve come to remember only one;
And the family name is-everyman.

• “Every year” By: Tara Lynch

(Grade 9 Student @ Leslie Thomas Junior High School 2000-2001)

Every year we take the time to remember the men who died
We feel for their families but still remain to keep their pride.

Every year we wear a flower, poppies on this day.
The grow amoung the graves in which our soldiers lay.

We never will forget the men who fought and won their rights.
We’re thankful that they did, but we’re said they lost their lives.

So every year on this day, we will sit and we will pray.

For the men and their guns, their horses with their saddles.
We might of won the war but we’re still fighting the battles.

•  Eternal Goal Brandon Russell

(Grade 7 Student @ Leslie Thomas Junior High School 2000-2001)
Eternal Goal

To serve the country,
To save my soul,
To love the people,
My eternal goal.

To laugh when laughed at,
To love when loved,
To love when hated,
To get up when shoved.

All these duties I’ll keep in my soul.
For all these duties are my eternal goal.

• Mr. Wright Megan Piercey

 (Grade 7 Student @ Leslie Thomas Junior High School 2000-2001)

Mr. Wright
There was a man named Mr. Wright,
Who was talking to a friend,
About how all inventions were already made,
And all new ideas would end.

“Surely” he said, “Inventions to be made,
Have already been,
And all new things,
Have already been seen!”

“No”, said his friend, “I think you’re wrong.”
And he whispered with a twinkle in his eye,
“I think that we have just begun,
And one day man will fly!”

“Oh no!” Mr. Wright scolded, “That’s blasphemy!
And blasphemy is a crime!
Angels were the ones meant to fly,
And humans to walk in the grime.”

Years later, Mr. Wright had two sons,
Orville and Wilbur were their names,
And they built the first flying aeroplane
That led to fortune and fame.

• “They” – Amanda Debison is a student at Leslie Thomas Junior High School written for the School’s Rememberance Day Service in 1999.

They

They fought for us,
They died for us,
They even lost their friends,
They fought a battle where
blood was shed,
And hoped it wouldn’t happen again.

They did it for our country,
A battle which they won,
But every time they shudder
When they hear a gun.

Every day in battle
They would always try,
So every time they see our flag
They glitter up with pride.

They try to tell us what happened,
They try with all their strength,
When they talk about the time
When they were in the rank.

Who are these people who seemed to climb up hills
With 200 pound boulders,
These people you see are no other
Then the brave Canadian Soldiers.

Amanda Debison
Leslie Thomas Junior High School
Nov 9/99

• “If you let it be” – Brittany Blakney

 (Grade 8 Student @ Leslie Thomas Junior High School 2002-2003)

Please note these links are in the process of being gathered. If you have a suggestion for a new link, or have found that one of the links does not work please drop us a note. Thank you.

The passing of Donald “Don” Stewart Henry of Estey’s Bridge, NB, occurred on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital.   Don graduated from the Maritime Forest Ranger School in the class of 1950. He worked for Bathurst Paper and then Forest Protection Ltd. in Fredericton, NB, retiring in 1987.  He was an avid supporter of the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax, NS and had a keen interest in NB History.  Read more here