PAGE-R.C.A.F.=Ray-Tracy-Cartoons

137 Cartoons of R.C.A.F. Ray Angus Tracy

WO-1 Ray Tracy in 1947

This series of CARTOONS are all COPYRIGHTED. I used to own the first 9 ORIGINAL drawings below. In April 2018 Ray Tracy's daughter, Valerie, contacted me and I gave her the 9 drawings with the option to keep the images on my website for you to enjoy and she was kind enough to give me permission to add more art work that she had in her Father's personal collection, and she also gave me the permission to put two photos of her Father on this page. You cannot use those drawings and Photos in Books or Magazines or any publications or to make money with them without her explicit written permission. Also some images are Copyright by his Daughter Valerie Tracy Hoiland. ©

All the rest of the other 96 Drawings are owned by R.C.A.F. and they are also Copyright.

The other 96 Drawings can also be downloaded from R.C.A.F. website at this link below. Then click on Photo Search on the Left and type in the search box Ray Tracy

They are the exact same Images and the same resolutions then the ones I have here. Please Note that I used the same Identification numbers on the Images that they have on their site, I just added Ray Tracy Cartoons at the start of the filename so that the internet would not be confused with their drawings and my drawings, but their numbers jumps and miss some counts, but rest reassured that I have all the Images here that they have on their website.

(If you want to Download them from the R.C.A.F. Website, it will take you much more time.)

NOTE that they don't have the first 9 Drawings that I have here and they don't have the other drawings that Valerie had in her collection and was so kind to agree to make them available here for your pleasure, so.....

THE FIRST NINE DRAWINGS AND THE 34 IN VALERIE'S COLLECTION ARE ONLY AVAILABLE ON THIS PAGE.

WO 1 Ray Tracy on the Tarmac with his camera. Photo around 1956.

HISTORY OF THE DRAWINGS;

Ray Tracy, a native of Fairville, New Brunswick, joined the RCAF in 1940 as an Aero-Engine Mechanic (Warrant Officer first class). In 1944 he got sick with a very bad cold, and he ended up in a Vancouver Hospital where he met a young Nurse (Dorothy). Ray did not have much to do in his hospital bed so as was his habit, he started to scribble some drawings about his stay at the hospital as the subject and when he left the hospital a couple of weeks later he gave the 9 drawings to this 21 year young Nurse Dorothy that took care of him. Before long, his talents as a Draftsman and Artist became apparent when he came back to duty in the Canadian Air Force. Then in 1945, he changed his service occupation and became a full-time Graphic Artist. He was closely associated with the Roundel magazine from its beginning in 1948 and brought the gloomy, pipe smoking "Sergeant Shatterproof" to life.
Ray married Julia Mason in April 1948 and they had a daughter, Patricia, in 1949. She died in 2008. Ray and Julie had another daughter, Valerie, in 1952 and she is still alive and well and living in Langley Township B.C. Ray Tracy died prematurely at the age of 37 on May 12, 1957 of a Heart Attack (coronary stenosis). His wife remarried and had another daughter and a son. Julia Cunningham died in 2007.
Ray left behind a legacy of art that deserves to be enjoyed by today's Air Force and the world for generations to come.

After Ray passed away his wife had some of the Original drawings (96) that Ray did and she did not know what to do with the drawings, so she gave them to Ray's best friend, Bruce Beatty who in turn gave copies to R.C.A.F. Public Affairs in 1966 and later gave to R.C.A.F. all the 96 ORIGINAL drawings as well.
Valerie's mother had also given Valerie some art work from her Father's collection that Valerie kept preciously ever since.
So, 70 years since Ray gave this 21 year old Nurse (Dorothy) his first 9 drawings, Dorothy was now 91 years old. In 2013 she was living in the same building where I was and she heard that I was an artist so when she saw me she asked me if I would be interested in buying them because she said that she did not know what to do with them and she said that she had them for so long, and that she was thinking of throwing them away. She said that she would rather sell them to me than to throw them away. I bought them for $200 from her not knowing anything about this artist Ray Tracy and I bought them because they looked nice and I did not want the old lady to throw them away. I saved them from the trash to preserve them and to give me time to find out what they were exactly. Dorothy told me the story of Ray in the Vancouver hospital and later I found out that Ray Tracy was in the Canadian Air Force and that in 1945 became popular for his cartoons. The R.C.A.F. already had 96 of the drawings so I did not want to give these to the R.C.A.F. I just scanned them and in 2014 I put them on my website hoping that one day one of Ray's descendants would contact me about the drawings. His daughter Valerie saw the 9 drawings on my website in April 2018 and she did not know they even existed and nothing about their story, so she contacted me and after she proved her Identity to me, I offered to give her back the drawings that her Father drew back in 1944.
So the drawings finally came back home to his daughter after 74 years and Valerie Tracy was kind enough to give me scans of some more of her father's work that she had in her possession with the permission to put them on my website along with the other 9 drawings that I gave her.
Isn't that a beautiful story? Had I not put them on my website Valerie would have never known about the first 9 drawings and I would have not had the chance to see more of his work and to share them with you here on my website. Faith does beautiful things sometimes and reunites the original first drawings of a great Artist with his descendants 74 years later.
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO COME HOME.

* * * * * * *

So the FIRST 9 drawings and all the ones from Valerie's collection that she was so kind to let me put on this page are only available here, and I can only share those images with a watermark of her Copyright ownership of those drawings to show who own the Drawings on this page.............ENJOY.

Here are the First 9 Drawings done By RAY Angus TRACY in 1944

Copyright is now owned by Valerie Tracy Hoiland. ©


1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9


1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24	25

26	27	28	29	30

31	32	33

And Here are the 96 other Drawings done By RAY Angus TRACY

Copyright owned by R.C.A.F.


1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24	25

26	27	28	29	30

31	32	33	34	35

36	37	38	39	40

41	42	43	44	45

46	47	48	49	50

51	52	53	54	55

56	57	58	59	60

61	62	63	64	65

66	67	68	69	70

71	72	73	74	75

76	77	78	79	80

81	82	83	84	85

86	87	88	89	90

91	92	93	94	95

96

THAT'S IT THAT'S ALL FOLKS.

Enjoy and Share..........Ghislain.