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Show I Canada Starts Arctic f Service of Air Mail ? Calgary, Canada. Air mall A X service tins been extended to t Aklavik, a settlement on tbe i S Arctic ocean In northwest Can. X Y ada. The first flight was made ? $ by Capt. Wilfred May, chief pi- X lot and operations manager of y air service, who flew a Bellanca 2 ? seaplane. v The route stretches 1,800 a X miles Into the wilderness of $ northwest Canada, from the X source of the Mackenzie river y to the Arctic coast. i The transport company's con- X Y tract with the Dominion govern- ? ff ment calls for six deliveries of i fmail at Aklavik each year, Y . three of which are to be dur- S x Ins the winter months. In ad- I dltion to contract mail service, f 1 the company will provide pas- X X senger transportation from Cal- . gary and KUtnonton, to points X X In Saskatchewan, Alberta, and ? S Manitoba. X |