Construction of the Trans-Canada Airway system commended in 1933 as an unemployment relief scheme during the Depression that employed 6,000 men building a coast-to-coast network of airports in Canada to facilitate air services. Most of the airports were constructed at 50 mile intervals with Emsdale airport (CNA4) constructed on the airway between Toronto and North Bay, Ontario. The airport and hangar date from 1935. The Royal Norwegian Air Force used Emsdale as a relief airport when it moved its flight training school from Toronto Island Airport to Muskoka Airport (YQA) in 1942.

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