by Barbara Campbell | Jul 4, 2018 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
Con and Barb Campbell arrived at Bachelor Lake, in the Abitibi region of Québec, in mid-August 1950 to manage the Gold Belt Air Service float plane base there. This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from Barbara’s journal, “Bachelor Lake Daze,”...
by Barbara Campbell | Jun 26, 2018 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
Con and Barb Campbell arrived at Bachelor Lake, in the Abitibi region of Québec, in mid-August 1950 to manage the Gold Belt Air Service float plane base there. For the first few weeks, they worked from dawn to dusk getting the camp in running order, and settling into...
by Barbara Campbell | Jun 22, 2018 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
Con and Barb Campbell arrived at Bachelor Lake, Québec, in mid-August 1950 to manage the Gold Belt Air Service float plane base there. For the first few weeks, they worked from dawn to dusk getting the camp in order, and settling into the routine of...
by Diana Trafford | Jan 26, 2017 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
Seen here taxiing on floats through thin ice at Lake Osisko, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, CF-AYO was the first Norseman manufactured by Noorduyn Aircraft Ltd. of Montréal. She was delivered to her original owner, Dominion Skyways, in January 1936. Gold Belt Air...
by Diana Trafford | Jan 16, 2017 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Howard Watt, Quebec aviation
Gold Belt Air Service base at Bachelor Lake, Québec, showing the original cabin on the left, and the smaller cabin added around 1948 on the right. In the foreground, the company’s Norseman CF-BSG. Photo credit: Canada Aviation and Space Museum #3840. In August...
by Diana Trafford | Sep 16, 2016 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Howard Watt, Quebec aviation
Living in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Barb and Con Campbell heard that Gold Belt Air Service was looking to replace their man at remote Bachelor Lake. They jumped at the chance to take over the year-round job. They would refuel the company aircraft, keep the two-way radio...
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