by Barbara Campbell | Mar 21, 2020 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
by guest author Barbara Van Orden Campbell From 1950 until 1953, Con and Barbara Campbell ran a refueling base and weather reporting station for Gold Belt Airways of Noranda at Bachelor Lake, Québec, 180 miles northeast of Rouyn, near present-day...
by Barbara Campbell | Mar 19, 2020 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
by guest author Barbara Van Orden Campbell In 1950, Con and Barbara Campbell took a job with Gold Belt Air Service of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, running their float plane base at Bachelor Lake. Flights of History is proud to feature chapters from...
by Barbara Campbell | Mar 10, 2020 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Quebec aviation
by Barbara Van Orden Campbell Barb and Con Campbell were cutting survey lines in the bush north of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, when they heard that Gold Belt Air Service was looking for someone to run their refuelling base at Bachelor Lake. They jumped at the chance to...
by Barbara Campbell | Jul 18, 2018 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Noorduyn Norseman, Quebec aviation
This is the last chapter from Barbara Van Orden Campbell’s journal “Bachelor Lake Daze.” Fans of Barb’s tales will be glad to know that there is more to come. As primarily an aviation history blog, we initially chose to run the aviation part of her...
by Diana Trafford | Jul 16, 2018 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Noorduyn Norseman
A special contribution from the tall tales department by guest author Con Campbell Jr. What’s the difference between a Flying Story and a Fairy Tale? Fairy Tales start: “Once upon a time…” Flying Stories...
by Barbara Campbell | Jul 6, 2018 | Barb & Con Campbell, Gold Belt Air Service, Howard Watt, Noorduyn Norseman, Quebec aviation
Con and Barb Campbell arrived at Bachelor Lake, in the Abitibi region of Québec, in August 1950 to manage the Gold Belt Air Service seaplane base there. This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from Barbara’s journal, “Bachelor Lake Daze,” published with the...
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