Hi, I'm looking for any information about Phillip Sauve, pilot for the army and also worked for Jack Austin-Austin Aircraft Aviation in Sudbury. Mr.Sauve was considered as one of the best pilot. Please email me if you have any information. Thanks a lot. carmen.rochon@hotmail.com
I do have a few articles newspapers, on Mr. Phillip Sauve
From: http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/AFFM/2ColumnSubPage/STE...


But Canada was catching up in aircraft designed for the bush. A prominent machine was the Fairchild Super 71, followed by the Fairchild 82. The Super 71 was the first aircraft designed in Canada for bush operations but since it retained the original U.S. Fairchild 71 wing, it wasn't completely Canadian.
The Noorduyn Norseman, on the other hand was completely designed and built in Canada at the Noorduyn plant in Montreal. It was fast, roomy, comfortable and economical. It was capable of operating on wheels, skis or floats and carried 10 people. A tribute to its endurance is the fact so many are still flying today. The prototype was flown in November 1935.
It was just about a year before that a couple of brothers in Ontario took an interest in aviation, an interest that still carries a legacy in Northern Ontario. Jack and Chuck Austin had something of a dream when they entered the aviation business in Toronto in March 1934, as Capreol and Austin Air Services. Not too long after, this would change to Austin Airways. Linking northern communities from Sudbury to Hudson Bay was a large part of that dream.
Their first two aircraft were Waco cabin biplanes, CF-AVL and CF-AVN. One of the aircraft arrived with a new feature - a removable panel on the port side behind the cabin facilitated the loading of a stretcher. This aircraft became Canada's first commercial air ambulance. In the coming years it would make numerous trips with ill and injured northern passengers to hospitals in Sudbury and Toronto.
Early on, mining personnel were the main clients of the new air service. Lake Ramsay at Sudbury would become their primary base in 1935 and would remain so for 20 years. The 1936 season featured plenty of large forest fires in northeastern Ontario. Austins, like several other air service operations, spent considerable time under contract to the Department of Lands and Forests.
Austins soon established bases at Chapleau, Gogama and Biscotasing, in addition to a summer base at Temagami. Early names that would become aviation legends in Northern Ontario included PHIL Sauve, Jim Bell, Rusty Blakey, Jimmy Cairns, Frank Fisher, Frank Russell and Jeff Wyborn.
In 1937, Jack Austin was paying his pilots about $200 a month and a dollar a flying hour. He often chuckled that they had the slowest planes in the sky. When he changed the bonus system to so much a mile, the planes suddenly seemed to start moving a lot faster.
But regardless of how fast they moved, there was little doubt the Austin aircraft were on the move all over Northern Ontario and beyond. Life in remote native communities like Fort Hope, Ogoki Post and Osnaburgh House took on a new dimension with the arrival of the Austin airplanes. They weren't the first in, but they lasted, and they paid for fish in cash. Fish hauling became a lucrative business. The aircraft also meant a dependable supply-line for the communities.