Silvio Roy (Hope Air) *FB
Contact:
M-C van der Merwe
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20 Aug. 2025 |
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 Kingston-Frontenac
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*FB - Food Bank Collection
Speaker Introduction: Jennifer
Speaker Thanks: Elaine
Hope Air is the only national charity filling a massive healthcare system gap. While we have universal healthcare, we don’t have universal access to that healthcare. The medical treatments start when you show up at the clinic or the hospital. Hope Air provides free flights, accommodation, and meal vouchers for Canadians in need who require medical treatments far from home. Over half of Hope Air patients would either have to borrow money, delay, or simply cancel their life-giving medical treatments. Please feel free to contact me anytime you would like more information on the charity. Meanwhile, their website is HopeAir.ca
About Sylvio Roy
Sylvio was born and raised in New Brunswick. He received a flying scholarship through the Air Cadet programme, where he attained his Private pilot's license at the age of 17. He enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1982. He went to the Royal Military College and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with a focus on communication systems.
After graduation, in 1987, he worked as the System Standard and Training Officer at the Sydney (Nova Scotia) Radar Station, as part of NORAD. In 1988, he moved to the National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa to work as Satellite Communications Project Director. He did some postgraduate studies in SATCOM systems at the George Washington University. In 1991, He went to Winnipeg for postgraduate studies at the School of Aerospace Systems. Upon graduation, he remained as an instructor until 1994. This was followed by a posting to Cold Lake, Alberta, at the Aerospace and Engineering Establishment. This unit deals with all the RCAF flight testing. Sylvio was responsible for the operation and maintenance of the instrumented flight testing range.
In 1996, he started training as a military pilot and obtained his RCAF wings standard in 1998. He was posted in Trenton, flying the CC-130 Hercules at 436 Squadron from 1998 to 2004 in the role of Strategic and Tactical Air Transport with a tour in Afghanistan in 2003. From 2004 until 2007, he flew the CC-130 Hercules at 424 Squadron in the role of Search and Rescue. He retired from the RCAF as Operations Officer and Chief Training Officer after 25 years (and 4 days) of service.
In 2007 in was hired by Air Canada to fly the Airbus 320, which he did for 15 years.
Since having been retired from Air Canada, Sylvio did some casual teaching at Seneca College for one year, and is currently teaching on an occasional basis at Cygnet Aviation Academy and some contract work at the base.
Sylvio is also an active member of the Kingston Rotary Club. He is involved with the International Service Committee as well as the Fraud Awareness Committee.
His involvement with Hope Air has earned him the “Volunteer Pilot of the Year” award and the "Dave McElroy” award, which he co-earned with his wife, Lori Sweet, who is also a Rotarian.
Sylvio is happily married to Lori Sweet, and between them, they have 4 adult children.