Aerial photograph from late 1952 shows RCAF Station North Bay under construction. The buildings include barracks, a hospital, dining hall, headquarters, motor pool building and fire station, plus housing in the foreground for military families. Upper left, the white 'pillar' is the new control tower, which was accepted from contractors in February 1953. Just below the control tower, two large hangars are under construction. To the right of the tower is a dark-coloured double hangar from the Second World War. It was constructed by Britain's Royal Air Force, which established a special flying school at the airfield. Top centre is a white circle, and below it, adjacent, a small cube-shaped white building. This is North Bay's original airport terminal, which belonged to Trans-Canada Air Lines (forerunner of Air Canada). The circle is where airliners parked while they loaded and offloaded passengers. In between the terminal building and the former RAF double hangar, is a dark- roofed white walled square structure; this was the Trans-Canada Air Lines hangar. The air force base and civilian airport shared the airfield. The airport was the first facility, built in 1938. The air force base with fighter jets and flying facilities remained until 1992. Since 1963, it has also been home to NORAD. (Doug Newman); Sterling Construction Company was building a wood laminated hangar (top left); Sterling Construction Company built several hangars, the air traffic control tower, and also single and multiple housing in the area (Richard Merlo); no .tiff file available