THE PAPER TRAIL · CYYZ

The Newsletters

52 issues · 256 pages scanned here · 8 more readable online.

From the ramp at YYZ

Written on the airport, for the people working it. As far as we know these survive nowhere else — no library or archive holds them.

Rampage

1987 – 1996 30 issues

The IAM Lodge 2323 newsletter — the union paper for the ramp at Toronto Pearson. Circulation ran between 1,000 and 2,500.

Cargo Payload

1989 – 1994 6 issues

The Air Canada Cargo newsletter at YYZ. Circulation 750 in 1989.

Liftoff

1981 1 issue

The Toronto Terminal II newspaper — Sales and Baggage. The oldest publication in this archive, and the only issue we have so far.

Airline company magazines

The official publications, sent to every employee.

Between Ourselves

1970 1 issue

The employee newspaper of Trans-Canada Air Lines and then Air Canada, first issued in December 1941 and published until April 1972, when it became Horizons. Sent to every employee and their family.

Horizons

1984 – 2001 3 issues

enRoute

2010 – 2020 8 issues

Air Canada's in-flight magazine, 1968 until the final print issue in November 2024. These are the publisher's own editions on Issuu, read here in full — nothing is copied or re-hosted.

Canadian Flyer

2000 3 issues
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RAMPAGE YYZ · An independent archive · Est. 2010
694 stories · 1,100+ members · Toronto Pearson International