Recollections Of A Radio Operator: Six Decades Ago, The Author Spent Two Years On Operations In The Quebec Wilderness

摘要

On 18 July 1947, a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 (CF-CUC) piloted by Capt Pierre Laurin, took off from Mont-Joli airport and headed northeast across the wide expanse of the St Lawrence River. About an hour later the airliner landed at Seven Islands (Sept-Iles) airport on the Quebec North Shore. For the author, this flight was an important milestone, being the first time I had been aboard an aeroplane; and it marked the beginning of my two-and-a-half year stint as an airline radio operator. As an 18-year-old graduate from a marine radio school in Montreal, I had envisioned a future as a Radio Officer aboard cargo ships plying the seven seas; but my career took a different turn when Pat Twist, an executive from CPAir, hired me in a downtown Montreal hotel and said, "Get down to Mont-Joli by train and we'll take it from there; you'll be posted at Ashuanipi Lake in Labrador."