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Administration Building

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Ever taken the very short ferry ride from the foot of Bathurst Street to the Island Airport? Then you might have entered this building to get a bite to eat. It used to be the administration building. Here's what an Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque in front of the building says:

Coordinates: 43.631958 -79.396026

This building is one of the few surviving air terminal buildings dating from the formative years of scheduled air passenger travel. It was constructed in 1938-39 by the Toronto Harbour Commissioners to service the new Port George VI Airport, now known as the Toronto Island Airport. Geared to efficiency, it centralized passenger, baggage, and air traffic control services in a structure which was placed close to and in full view of the runway. Its horizontal massing, central projecting control tower and attractively landscaped setting are typical of air terminal buildings before the advent of jet aircraft.

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