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Les origines de l’aviation québécoise
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Les origines de l’aviation québécoise
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The first Quebec aviator to get off the ground was a fourteen-year old Montrealer named Laurence Lesh who, in August 1907, made a series of flights in the port of Montreal and at Dominion Park in a biplane glider he built himself... pulled by a horse galloping. In 1911, Montrealers Percival H. Reid and Ernest Anctil tested their own prototype planes on the grounds of a polo club on the edge of the current Laurentian Boulevard. This site later became the Cartierville Airport, the first of its kind in the country. In the fall of 1912, Frederick A. Wanklyn (a Montreal military serviceman posted to England) and Percival Reid (enrolled at Sloane School of Aviation at Long Island, New York) won the first flying licenses granted to Quebecers. There were no flying schools at that time in Quebec. The birth of Canadian commercial aviation came in the summer of 1919, with the visionary initiative of Ellwood Wilson, Chief Forest Engineer at the Laurentide Pulp and Paper Mill in Grand-Mère, Quebec. Wilson organized a forest patrol air service as head of the St. Maurice Forest Protective Association. In 1922, he formed his own company called the Laurentide Air Service.
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Cap-aux-Diamants
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No. 87
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10-14
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Automne 2006
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fr
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Thiffault, Pierre. “Les origines de l’aviation québécoise.” Cap-aux-Diamants No. 87 (Automne 2006): 10–14. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cd/2006-n87-cd1046234/6977ac.pdf.
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