Fred carmichael biography

He worked hard to become the first Indigenous commercial pilot in the Arctic, founded multiple aviation companies and has served the people of the Mackenzie.
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Carmichael, the North's first aboriginal pilot, was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame this summer.

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Fred Carmichael: Veteran Story

Bio

Frederick "Mike" Carmichael grew up in Newcastle, Ind., and worked before and after school from junior high through high school as a meat cutter in a butcher shop. After high school, he took the Civil Service exam and got a job as a federal meat inspector in Chicago.

He was 19 when he was drafted on Feb. 8, 1943, and went to basic training at Camp McCain in Grenada, Miss., where soldiers were being trained for jungle warfare in the South Pacific. At the end of basic training, the rest of the company went to the Pacific, while Carmichael stayed on as an instructor at Camp McCain. They went on maneuvers in Tennessee in the winter of 1943 after replacements arrived to round out the company at 188. That group also headed to the Pacific after the Tennessee maneuvers. Company F then went to Fort Jackson and next was stationed on "tank hill."

Eventually, Carmichael found himself a sergeant in the 87th Infantry Division, 347th Infantry Regiment, Company F, part of Patton's Third Army in Europe.

Here is Carmichael's story in his own wo

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Fred Carmichael’s route to aviation is uncommon: He grew up in the bush 10 miles outside of Aklavik, NWT, on his parents’ trapline. As a child, while visiting Aklavik, he saw a plane land to bring in supplies, and he was hooked. Carmichael, the North’s first aboriginal pilot, was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame this summer.

Around 1950, he met an ex-air force pilot and evangelist with a small Stinson plane. “He was working on his airplane one day, so I gave him a little hand. After he got done, he said ‘I gotta take this thing up for a test flight. Would you like to come for a ride?’ Well I jumped at that. He let me take the controls, and that was it.”

The pilot agreed to connect Carmichael with some flying instructors in Edmonton if he’d attend Bible College. From there, he bought a Stinson 108-2 for $2,650, and flew it back North to get more hours for his commercial licence. “I had it for about 15 years, then I sold it for $45,000. Good return. Should have bought a whole slew of them.”

Local reindeer herders needed a pilot to do aerial patrols of the herds.

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FRED CARMICHAEL

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Fred Carmichael is the author of over fifty plays, primarily comedies, farces, and mysteries. With his wife Patricia, Fred Carmichael owned and operated the Caravan Theatre at the Dorset Playhouse in Dorset, Vermont, for twenty-seven seasons from 1949 to 1975. The Playhouse saw the premier performances of several of his plays. When Fred and Patricia Carmichael retired in 1975, the Dorset Playhouse became the home of the American Theatre Workshop led by Jill St. Charles.

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