Years of service in the Royal Air Force led into a distiguished career as a camera ship for aerial photography in Canada. RS700, later registered as CF-HMS, had a career that spanned the Western Hemisphere - from the frozen Canadian Arctic to the steaming jungles of Latin America. All at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

Trevor McTavish

Its not often we discover heroes in our family tree, but that's exactly what happened to Dave Lefurgey. His late uncle, Robert Niven, was born and raised in Calgary and went on to pioneer high altitude photography, including secretly mapping much of Europe before the start of the Second World War. (Reprinted with permission)

Dave Lefurgey

Throughout the fifties and sixties it was common practice for University students with an interest in amateur radio to find seasonal work broadcasting weather reports and passing along messages from the survey crews. David Stock was one such student. He recalls some of his experiences working in the North, connected to the outside by a microphone and a pair of headsets.

Trevor McTavish

Two days after VE-Day, two airmen climbed aboard their Mosquito, "F for Freddie," for a demonstration in front of hundreds. In only minutes the plane would strike a building at over 400 mph, killing the crew and destroying an airplane that had survived 213 missions over hostile Europe.

Richard de Boer

Over shadowed by the larger members of the British Commonwealth, Australia produced some of the bravest warriors of the Second World War. Members of 464 Squadron (RAAF) participated in many of the most famous Mosquito raids. Ken Wright provides the Calgary Mosquito Society with the first hand account of the two Jacks - Jack Palmer and Jack Rayner.

Ken Wright