Editor’s Note: The exact date of this unfinished letter is unknown. It appears to have been written after Reggie lost his job at Toronto Island Airport following changes to airport security requirements after 9/11.

Reggie had finally returned to the aviation industry more than a decade after studying avionics at NBCC. Losing the job was a significant setback, and this surviving fragment shows him reaching out to someone he knew in search of another opportunity.

Only the beginning of the letter survives.

 

Draft Letter to employer?

Dear Jack:

Hi! How are you?  I hope all is well.  I am writing to you to inquire / plead, beg, about the availability of short (?) term employment which, so far, has eluded?  It seems to me, and I have spoken to several other crew members, that we are being …  [end of writing]