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Founded in 1958 in Montreal the Astronautical Society of Canada was originally named the Canadian Astronautical Society but changed their name to avoid being confused with the Canadian Astronautical Society in Downsview Ontario. The business address was on Peel Street in Montreal and the President was Gordon R. MacGregor of Trans Canada Airlines. Henri Binet was the ...

... .jpg (''Disambiguation:'' Astronautical Society of Canada ) The Canadian Astronautical Society was founded in 1957 by engineers of the Guided Missile Division of the de Havilland Aircraft Company of Canada. The group had gathered to discuss the possibility of building a sounding rocket. Several hours into their first meeting they decided to form an astronautical society. The ...

... Astronautical Society (AAS), 1954–2014 by Rick W. Sturdevant,† James R. Kirkpatrick,‡ and Michael L. Ciancone ''Presented at the Forty-Eighth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, 29 September – 3 October 2014, Toronto, Canada. Paper IAC-14-E4.1.6.x24243.'' The American Astronautical Society (AAS) has been a key pioneer ...

... - Society's Rockets Near Completion 2 - Photos of Rocket No. 5 3 - Photos of Rocket No. 4 5 - Dictionary of Rocketry 7 - The Forthcoming Annual Meeting 7 - 29 September 1934 - ROCKET EXPERIMENTS OF 1934, ACTIVITIES OF ASTRONAUTS AND ROCKETORS ALL OVER THE WORLD RECOUNTED 1 - American Rocket Society Experiments ...

... during World War II by the merger of the Manchester Astronautical Association (MAA) and the Astronautical Development Society (ADS). After the BIS fell into stasis at the beginning of 1940 Eric Burgess 's MAA and ... around 230. Ultimately the merger of all three on December 31st 1945 would result in the new combination reverting to the old name of the British Interplanetary Society and would proceed on for ...

... paper, titled “100 Years of Aerospace History in Canada: From McCurdy to Hadfield" was subsequently published in Marsha Freeman, ed., History of Rocketry and Astronautics, Vol 46 of the AAS American Astronautical Society History Series, as Chapter ... of 23 January 1948 when Stehling, in his capacity as President of The University of Toronto Rocket Society, attended a very important event called the “Annual At Home Address of the President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ...

... by A.V. Douglas, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 58, 1964 Acknowledgments: With thanks to the staff at the University of Guelph Library Annex, McMaster University Archives, ... the Author: Robert Godwin is the author and editor of dozens of books on spaceflight. He is a member of the International Astronautical Federation History Committee and was Space Curator ...

... a multitude of tasks. He created a new faculty of law, he worked to get the observatory and its Alvan Clark telescope into more permanent surroundings. He founded the Botanical Society of Canada. And perhaps most importantly he took on the voice of advocate for a free and expansive system of further education in Canada. In 1861 he returned to ...

... Before he took on the fight for the future of Canada’s educational system he first set about establishing the Botanical Society of Canada. He became the society’s first president. His interest in plants undoubtedly came from his work with Thomas Brown in Scotland. Combined with his solid understanding of bees he ...

... " in October of 1958. Even then they found it difficult to recruit members. ref 4 The Canadian Astronautical Society Immediately following the flight of Sputnik in October 1957 an earnest group of Canadian engineers at ... of a future where Canada would contribute to a space program; one that would be owned and operated by the members of the Commonwealth. To that end, in August 1958, Lapp’s Canadian Astronautical Society ...

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