Robert Shun Wong at Toronto Island Airport
Date1946
Names
Unknown
(photographer)
Wong, Robert Shun, 1917-1988
(subject)
FormatPicture
NotesRobert Shun Wong leaning against a large sign that welcomes and orients visiting pilots to Toronto Island Airport.
Wong showed a passion for flying from an early age, building model airplanes and taking flying lessons in high school. He pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Maintenance Engineering at Parks Air College in East St. Louis, Illinois -- the first federally certified school of aviation in the U.S. -- graduating in 1940. Just shy of attending his graduation ceremony, Wong was called upon to serve as a flight engineer for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, training pilots for the Royal Canadian Air Force out of an Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) based at Windsor Airport from 1940 to 1944 as part of the war effort. After the war, Wong and his brother Tommy co-founded and operated Central Airways out of Toronto Island Airport.
Wong showed a passion for flying from an early age, building model airplanes and taking flying lessons in high school. He pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Maintenance Engineering at Parks Air College in East St. Louis, Illinois -- the first federally certified school of aviation in the U.S. -- graduating in 1940. Just shy of attending his graduation ceremony, Wong was called upon to serve as a flight engineer for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, training pilots for the Royal Canadian Air Force out of an Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) based at Windsor Airport from 1940 to 1944 as part of the war effort. After the war, Wong and his brother Tommy co-founded and operated Central Airways out of Toronto Island Airport.
Subject
Dimensions12.5cm x 7.8 cm
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Robert Shun Wong fonds, gift of Roberta Lau in 2016.
CollectionChinese Canadian Archive
Usage Rights
Public Domain
(Learn More)
Object NumberCCA003_B01_08
![C.I. 45 certificate of Wong Tuck Soon [Robert Shun Wong]](/internal/media/dispatcher/2110006/thumbnail)
Canada. Department of Immigration and Colonization
14 May 1924
Chow, Yucho, -1949
early 1940s
