Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy6
There was a big US Air Force base (Kinross, later Kincheloe) at the Sault in those days...........
|
The Canadian Government once contributed funding to establish Airports and radio range stations on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the mid 1940's at Kinross, Grand Marais and Houghton
The original Trans-Canada Air Lines (Air Canada) Transcontinental Route from Toronto to Winnipeg and onto Vancouver was north of Lake Superior through Kapuskasing and Armstrong, Ontario. In the mid 1940's the airway was realigned to provide a shorter route from Gore Bay on Manitoulin Island, Ontario (south of Sault St Marie) to Port Arthur-Fort William (Thunder Bay) Canada’s DOT required airports be at approximately 100 mile intervals along the route.....so the need to establish those airports in Upper Michigan and so the funding contribution.
Trans-Canada Air Lines actually managed the airport at Kinross, Michigan until the USAF took over and then TCA became the tenant. Sault Ste Marie, Ontario was served from Kinross until the Department of Transport establish a new airport in the Sault in 1961. Until then, Canadian passengers (flying domestic) were carried “In Bond” across the border by bus and not required to clear US Customs (can you imagine that happening now!)
TCA 1944 Map....the Transcontinental Route goes through Kapuskasing.....
TCA 1947 Map....the route now goes through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Kapukasing was now at the end of a spur from North Bay and Porquis
(and a New Brunswick note to MonctonRad......notice in the first map above that Saint John and Fredericton were served through Blissville about midway between the two cities. Then on the 1947 map.....the Saint John Airport was now at Pennfield))