This post has a number of different views of aviation activities at Montreal's 'Dorval Airport'.
The majority are from the 1960-1970 time period.
The images are often large enough that you will need to scroll to the right to see everything.
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| Postcard mailed in 1961. |
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| from: Lovell's map of Montreal, 1960. |
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| Detail from RCAF photo A16289-99 - likely taken in 1959. |
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| From: Shell roadmap of Montreal, circa 1968. |
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The next images come from a number of editions of the The Official Handbook of Present Conditions and Recent Progress originally published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics of Canada. The date shown for the photos is the year published. Often the editors seemed to obtain a selection of photos from a given source ... then similar photos for that particular subject would appear for one or more subsequent years. So the dating is not exact and often lags by at least a year or two.
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| Published: 1946. |
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| Published: 1960. |
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| Published: 1961. |
Compensating for inflation, $30 million would equal about $260 million in 2020 dollars.
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| Published: 1962. |
A neighbour of ours on 43rd Avenue, Lachine worked at this facility.
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In Canada's centennial year, The Department of Transport commissioned a
book to commemorate the history of civil aviation in Canada.
The interior photos of the Montreal facilities are historically interesting.
from: Voyageurs of the Air; JRK Main; 1967; Department of Transport.
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These Ektachrome slide snapshots were taken by my father in July 1961.
A TCA Vickers Viscount.
The outdoor observation area - the location from which the tarmac photographs were taken.
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Ektachrome snapshots from 1965.
In July 1965, a departure from Dorval by Joan Yorke is shown.
Joan was an elementary school friend of my mother's.
She was an experienced traveller.
Circa 1960, she visited the divided city of Berlin and 'Checkpoint Charlie'.
Joan Yorke is seen boarding her flight.
In the foreground a Boeing 707 is on the tarmac while Joan Yorke's Douglas 'Stretch' DC-8 takes off.
A DC-8 lands at Dorval in August 1968.
Seen from 55th Avenue Lachine.
