by Diana Trafford | Nov 9, 2022 | Compagnie aérienne franco-canadienne, de Lesseps, Early Canadian aviation, George Fuller, Quebec aviation
Tribute November 17, 2022 — at Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (Montréal) On July 2, 2022, we lost one of our most respected Canadian aviation historians. George Fuller had a special interest in Québec aviation, and in early aviation generally. He shared his knowledge...
by Diana Trafford | Jan 29, 2021 | Howard Watt, Quebec aviation
It was Uncle Howard’s last flight. He loved every minute of it. Howard Watt had flown everything from Curtiss JN-4 Canadian “Jennies” to four-engine Liberator wartime transports during his three decades in commercial aviation and RAF Ferry Command. To fly in a...
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 Diana Trafford | Sep 1, 2019 | Air mail, Canadian Transcontinental Airways, North Shore, Quebec aviation, Roméo Vachon, Sept-Iles
If you search the internet or published books on Canadian aviation history, most sources tell you that it was Roméo Vachon. They say the well-known French-Canadian aviator was the pilot who arrived in Sept-Îles, on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, on 25...
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