A Canadian Aviation Historical Society Chapter
CAHS Manitoba Chapter normally meets at 7 pm Central Time on the last Thursday of the month, except December. Our meetings are held at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, 2088 Wellington Avenue, and since April 2020, are also on Zoom. June, July, and August meetings may be on Zoom only. 

Our meetings are free and open to CAHS members and everyone interested in Canadian aviation history. For those participating on Zoom, the meeting link will be provided around two hours before the meeting. Registration for meetings is required at CAHS-MB. Please register early enough to receive the link.

The Manitoba Chapter was formed in Winnipeg in the 1990s and operated for several years before going dormant in the late 1990s. The chapter was rejuvenated in October 2001 and has been going strong ever since. We typically draw around fifty people to a meeting, with about thirty attending in person. We provide the coffee and doughnuts. Guests are welcome. Parking is free in the aviation museum lot.

The chapter symbol, the Junkers Ju-52/1m, commemorates Canada's first national air service. Canadian Airways, owned by Winnipeg grain magnate James Richardson Sr, operated from 1930 to 1942 before being taken over by Canadian Pacific Railway three years after Richardson's death. The Junkers Ju-52/1m, a single engine version of the famous Junkers Ju-52/3m, was purchased in 1931 and used across Canada, on wheels, skis, and floats. It was the biggest aircraft in Canada at the time. A replica is now proudly displayed in the new hangar of our partner, the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada.

The chapter has hosted the CAHS National Convention four times: once in the 1990s, 2006, 2016, and 2023. Conventions normally include two days of speakers on a variety of aviation topics, and a day of tours to nearby museums or other attractions.

A list of speakers and meeting topics going back several years is available here.
Scroll down to discover Chapter events, including local meetings information.

Meeting and Mailing Addresses

Meetings:
Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada
2088 Wellington Ave
​Winnipeg
There is plenty of parking space.
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​Mailing:
CAHS Manitoba Chapter
819 Ashburn Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3G 3C8

Membership and Meetings

Last Thursday every month, 7pm CT, at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, and by Zoom video conference. June, July, and August meetings may be by Zoom only. There is no meeting in December.

Admission is free and open to all CAHS members and everyone interested in Canadian aviation history.

The chapter does not collect a membership fee. A silver collection is taken at in person meetings to cover expenses.

Chapter Executives, Directors, and Other Contacts

Jim Bell
Chapter President
Winnepeg, Manitoba
(204)-293-5402
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Brian Gilchrist
Treasurer
Manitoba
Bill Zuk
Secretary
Manitoba
(204) 290-8943
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Don Currie
Director
Manitoba
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Leon Dubickyj
Director
Manitoba
Pat English
Director
Manitoba
Alan Parkin
Director
Manitoba
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Chapter Activities and Publications

Meetings and Other Events

Our next chapter meeting will take place at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, 2088 Wellington Avenue, Winnipeg, and by Zoom on Thursday 30 November 2023 at 7 pm CST. See poster below.

Our speaker this month is John Peden, who will speak about his father. Murray Peden was a Second World War RCAF bomber pilot. A Thousand Shall Fall, his autobiography, covered his enrolment, training in the BCATP, operational service flying Stirlings and Flying Fortresses with the Royal Air Force, and his homecoming. It has been called the "one of the finest war memoirs ever written".

John was born in 1955, and is the eldest of Murray Peden's three children (another brother who passed away in 2013 as well as a sister, retired from her career as an M.D.). Winnipeg is his lifelong home. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Univ of Manitoba in 1979, and articled that year with the Manitoba Department of Justice. He went on to enjoy a long career with them as a Crown Attorney, only retiring in 2022. He is married with two grown children (and two young grandchildren).  He has had a lifelong love of music, playing the piano, the trombone and the bagpipes. He still plays the pipes with his son in the St. Andrew's Pipe Band of Winnipeg, and dabbles in writing pipe music and teaching the pipes with the Lord Selkirk Robert Fraser Memorial Pipe Band.

Registration for this meeting is required at CAHS-MB. Our meetings are free and open to CAHS members and everyone interested in Canadian aviation history. We provide the coffee and doughnuts. The meeting Zoom link will be provided around two hours before the meeting. Please register early enough to receive the link.
Past Meetings
Select a year to view posters of past Chapter meetings. 
Chapter Newsletters
The Manitoba Chapter does not publish a newsletter, but you may join our mailing list by sending your email address to cahsywg@cahs.ca. You will receive two or three emails per month. We will only use your email address for CAHS purposes.