Wiarton is the birthplace of Eileen Vollick (1908-1968), the first licensed woman pilot in Canada, and in her honour our local historian and aviation buff Brian Reis is preparing to launch the Gallery of Early Canadian Flight.

The museum will be open from 8:30am to 6:30pm Monday to Friday 365 days a year, admission is free. The gallery
will also offer monthly social evenings, featuring guest speakers who have been, or are still actively playing a part in Canadian military and civil aviation.

There will be a special ribbon cutting ceremony for the Gallery at the Wiarton Keppel Airport, Wednesday June 18th at 9:30 am.

The Gallery is a museum dedicated to displaying Canada's aviation past and will include ...

• photos of Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame inductee, Carlyle Agar, who was born in Lions Head.
• In addition the gallery is currently working on a memorial exhibit for the Canadian members of the "Dambuster Raid."
• With the assistance of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, N.S. and the U.S. Library of Congress, there is a small collection of photos of Alexander Graham Bell and the Aerial Experiment Association.
• The aviation museum at CFB Shearwater, Nova Scotia is working on a set of models for the gallery of WW II aircraft used by the RCAF during the war.