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Matt Berry and Wop May Photograph collection

  • PAA paa-9329
  • Collection
  • Copied 1966 (originally created ca. 1930-1950)

The collection pertains to Matt Berry's and Wop May's careers as bush pilots and includes copied photographs circa 1930s to the 1940s featuring Matt Berry and Wop May as well as other individuals and subjects related to air travel in northern Alberta including Frank Harley (Berry's mechanic) carrying canoes, Cranberry Portage, airplanes, airplane wrecks, Bathhurst Inlet, Harry Hayter and Curtis Robine, Patsy Xlengenberg's residence on Wilmot Island, K.V. salvage operations on Lake Athabasca, McMurray airport construction, installing floats on an airplane, hand-made carriage and track for wood hauling on Boar Island, R.H. Channing Jr., Tom McCallum, Jack Stark, construction of the Yellowknife airport, Berens River, Jack Humble, members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bob McInnes, Frank Baragar, Bill Francis, Bob McInnes, Frank Baragar, Bill Francis, Ed Ballan (Berry's instructor), Curtis Jenny, and Ruby Henss

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Wop May fonds

  • GLEN glen-1576
  • Fonds
  • 1916-1973, predominant 1916-1945

The fonds consists of correspondence (1919-1936); military certificates, log books and combat reports (1916-1919); aviation certificates and log books (1919-1932); recorded interview (1945); and miscellaneous personal and aviation records. Includes a recorded interview with Violet May about her husband (1973); recording of a memorial program broadcast by CBC (1952); photographs of northern aviation and the Air Observer School; and films about postal service on the Mackenzie, the Yellowknife Royal Visit, Dawson City, Great Bear Lake region, and oil well drilling and construction in the North (ca. 1930-1950).

May, Wop