From the archives: Montreal becomes an Aviation Centre

This story was first published on July 19, 2003, in the Montreal Gazette.
Officials of Atfero, the Atlantic ferry organization, said Saturday a Lockheed bomber made a forced landing near Ottawa Saturday morning while on a routine practice navigation flight. The four men in the aircraft escaped injury.
The Gazette, Monday, July 21, 1941
We were slightly behind the times, for ATFERO had ceased to exist the day before. But not its work: reconstituted as Ferry Command of Britain’s Royal Air Fo