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CASARA Ontario – Team and Individual Awards Nominations are now Open!
It’s that time of the year again where you get to recognize a CASARA member or Zone for their contribution to SAR over the past twelve months. Please feel free to send your nominations to Dee at CASARA Ontario
Thank you for your support in recognizing our most important asset…our members!
CASARA Ontario makes significant donation to True Patiot Love
John M Daniels CD, FRAes, President of Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA) Ontario (Right) and Terry F. Nord, Executive Member of CASARA Ontario (Left) making a presentation of a $5000 donation to Bronwen Evan, CEO True Patriot Love.
True Patriot Love is a national charity that supports military families, funds community-based programs and contributes to the Canadian Insitutue for Military and Veteran Health Research.
CASARA Ontario is a non-profit aviation association whose aim is to provide a trained group of volunteers to aid and assist the Department of National Defence in the conduct of Search and Rescue (SAR) activities and in the promotion of SAR Awareness to the Ontario public.
The Honorary Company of Air Pilots is now recruiting in Canada.
Please check out the link below to the HCAP website.
if you are interested in joining please forward your application to Mr. Mike Daniels at
Government of Canada announces new Medal for volunteering.
Check out the link below to see the Press Release.
CASARA Shines at National SAREX 2017
Checkout the latest article by Skies Magazine.
StAREX 2017. Another CASARA Training Sucess Story!
Check out the report by Ontario Executive Member, Terry Nord on StAREX 2017 which took place this past weekend Aug 19-20, 2017. Thanks to Sonja McAuley and Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn for the photos.
CASARA accompanies 424 Squadron on Arctic Mission
For some years now CASARA have been asssisting 424 Squadron in their training of our northern Canadian members. The training varies but usually includes CVT (CASARA Visual Trainer) as well as spotter training onboard the CC-130 Hercules and Twin Ottter aircraft. On this mission to Nunavut, they were fortunate to have a gentleman by the name of Dylan Clark, a CASARA member and McGill University Arctic researcher present. Dylan gave a SAR awareness presentation to the community of Pond Inlet. Many SAR partners were invited to participate including Parks Canada, Rangers, RCMP, CASARA and the RCAF. This mission was extremely successful and given the rigors of working in the far north, it is a testament to the skill, courage and commitment by all involved. CASARA members from Niagara, London, Ottawa, Sault Ste Marie, Montreal and Iqaluit in partnership with RCAF members from 424SQN and 413SQN participated this year. This SAR training mission visited several communities including Resolute, Rankin Inlet, Pond Inlet, Hall Beach, and Iqaluit. Below are some photos to help give you a sense of their accomplishments.
The people involved in this particlular mission are from Left to Right: Dylan Clark (Niagara), Ken McAuley (Sault-Ste-Marie), Bill Laur (London), John Vander Velde (Iqaluit), Jean-Louis Turcotte (Montreal), Capt Claude Courcelles (424SQN), MCpl Gabriel Ferland (413SQN).