Aviation history

Early flight, airfields, air training or aviators.

Historic places
82Historic places
Built
1884–1961Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 57
  • Provincial 8
  • Municipal 17
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario36
  • Manitoba11
  • Alberta8
  • New Brunswick7
  • British Columbia5
  • Quebec5
  • Newfoundland and Labrador3
  • Nova Scotia3
  • Northwest Territories1
  • Nunavut1
  • Prince Edward Island1
  • Saskatchewan1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1950s: 22 of the 74 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1884Billy Bishop Boyhood Home National Historic Site of CanadaOwen Sound, Ontario
  2. 1889Memorial SquareSummerside, Prince Edward Island
  3. 1892Beinn Bhreagh Hall National Historic Site of CanadaBaddeck Bay, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 8 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 53 of these 82 places. These names come up most often.

  1. Department of National Defence11 places
  2. British Royal Engineers5 places
  3. Royal Canadian Air Force Directorate of Works and Buildings5 places
  4. Royal Canadian Air Force3 places
  5. Engineer Services Branch3 places
  6. Ross, Patterson, Townsend and Fish Architects3 places

All 82 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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