CANAV Books

12/09/2025

Check out Larry's latest blog post!

01/21/2025

As you probably know, CANAV Books 'wrote the book' on the CF-100! ;)

09/27/2024

Read CANAV Books' recent blog post about the retirement of the Martin Mars!

09/19/2024

Canada’s Aviation Book of the Year !

The Royal Canadian Air Force: 100 Years of Service
Volume 1, By Larry Milberry and Hugh A. Halliday

The RCAF’s 1924-2024 Centennial is being highlighted by airshows, dedications, commemorative coins and book launches. Adding to the list and having produced the RCAF 60th Anniversary history in 1984, CANAV Books is pleased to introduce its 2-volume Centennial set, The Royal Canadian Air Force: 100 Years of Service.

Beautifully produced, Volume 1 of “100 Years” begins with Canada’s earliest aerial experiments, covers WWI where Canadians excel in the air, then moves to formation of the RCAF in 1924. The RCAF gains renown on training, forestry, fisheries photography and mapping duties, and daunting northern expeditions. Like today’s Snowbirds, its “Siskins” demo team spotlights the small but impressive RCAF.

Our story moves through the 1930s, when the RCAF modernizes just as war erupts again. Vol.1 covers all this from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan to the U-boat war plus everything overseas from the Battle of Britain to the Far East. All the action and heroism are here, much detail for the first time. With war’s end, the RCAF shrinks to a shadow of its wartime self, but new world troubles arise -- a hint of things to come in Volume 2 (1946-2024), which is taking shape “as we speak”. “100 Years” is based on official RCAF records, aircrew logbooks, scrapbooks, photo albums, published histories and interviews. Anyone keen on our military heritage will revel in this incomparable tribute to the RCAF’s Centennial!

Specifications (Volume 1)
• 384 pages, 9 x 12 inches hardcover • ISBN 978-0-921022-46-6
• Dust jacket, 20 chapters, 300,000 words
• Retail price $75.00 + shipping and tax
• Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

Ordering ...
1) Order your book from canavbooks.com
https://canavbooks.com/rcaf100v1/

2) Pay to [email protected] with PayPal or Interac

3) Mail your order with cheque or MO to:
CANAV Books, 51 Balsam Ave., Toronto, Ontario M4E3B6

Contact CANAV
Tel: (416) 698-7559
Email: [email protected]
Blog: www.canavbooks.wordpress.com

04/02/2024

Check this out! At around the 1:10 mark they feature an art exhibit of over 100 pieces, all commissioned (and paid for!) in the early 1980s by Larry Milberry, now in display in Winnipeg for the first time.

As far as we know, Larry is the largest patron of Canadian aviation art in history, and it's great to see some of them available for public viewing now.

Copy/paste this (and remove the "DOT") ...winnipeg.citynewsDOTca/video/2024/04/02/winnipeg-celebrates-rcaf-100th-anniversary/

01/11/2023

Another 'King of Canadian Aviation' has passed away. But, Dick lived a full life - check out CANAV's post about the man:

Many are saddened to hear that the great R.D. “Dick” Richmond has passed. Dick holds a high place on my list of true ” Kings of Canadian Aviation”. I first interviewed him f…

06/13/2022

Are you looking for a great Fathers' Day gift? Check out the booklist at CANAVBooks for the historian/reader in your life!

06/12/2022

Check out our latest blog post!

Former Golden Hawk, George Miller, has donated his personal airplane. See this important Canadian aviation heritage story. Google it: “New Brunswick Aviation Museum Update 2022-06” CANA…

03/28/2020

Check out Larry Milberry's latest Canav blog post!

In January 2006 the great Fred Hotson handed over part of his archives to me, including what he had of the Al Martin aviation photo collection — prints, negatives and transparencies. Fred had…

07/20/2019

This is a great article about the Dash 7 - still in service around the world today! CANAV Books published The De Havilland Canada Story in 1983, and the Dash 7 is well covered in the book.

De Havilland Canada's four-engine Dash 7 first flew in 1975. Today, only 19 remain in service worldwide, performing a wide variety of transport and special purpose missions.

07/20/2019

Neat, eh?

The CNE airshow in 1976. c/o Toronto Star Archives.

05/10/2019

Check this out!

Aviation history buffs are invited to join two of Canada’s foremost industry authors for the launch of a new book celebrating the unknown—and unsung—airmen of the First World War.