Interview with Derek Sifton

This is a YouTube video of an interview to president of Buttonville Airport Derek Sifton as he talks about the airport and that are being done. Watch the video to listen more to what Mr. Sifton says. The facts and comments he mentions here in this video was before the closing of the airport has been approved. The interview starts at 2:22.

Plane Crashes at Buttonville

Some planes that have met accidents have been stated that the planes have either slated to land at or have taken off from Buttonville Airport. This article talks details about accidents and difficulties airplanes have met near or in Buttonville Airport.

http://www.yorkregion.com/yorkregion/article/838153

“Buttonville Airport Land Sold to Cadillac Fairview” – City News

This article from City News includes information about the closing of Buttonville Airport and includes quotes from 680 News senior business editor Mike Eppel. It also talks about how the airport started and the comments include many viewers’ debates and complains about the closing.

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/98355–buttonville-airport-sold-to-cadillac-fairview

Oak Ridges Moraine Archeology – Altona Forest

Here is a link to some pre-history and maps talking about aboriginal settlement in the Rouge River area thousands of years ago: http://www.altonaforest.org/history.html

Buttonville Heritage District Conservation Study + Plan

Here is a link to the Town of Markham’s PDF presentation on the subject, presented in June 2011:

http://www.markham.ca/markham/ccbs/indexfile/Agendas/2011/Development%20Services/pl110322/Buttonville%20Heritage%20Conservation%20District%20Plan.pdf

Aviation Museums

Thanks to this European group, you can now find aviation museums all over the world at http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/

Whether it be North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, or Asia, the Aviation Museum web portal is working to make it possible for you to find an aviation museum no matter where you are.

They offer a wide variety of links to museums all over the world. However, they are still working on producing a larger database so their content is not quite complete, yet.

I found that many of these museums portray the thing that their country is most proud of, and sadly the Canadian Air and Space Museum now needs to re-locate. Without a location if it closes, public access to the history of Canada’s Avro Arrow may drop significantly. That’s why we think Buttonville is a great new location for them.

There are lots of ideas about how to create an exciting aviation museum to be found on the European portal mentioned above.

Canadian Aviation Museum

There are few aviation museums in Canada. However, with those few museums we see how each one offers their own unique environment in which they portray our aviation history.

Here are some of more popular museums located in Ontario:

The Canadian Air and Space Museum

http://www.casmuseum.org/home.php

The Canada Aviation and Space Museum

http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

http://www.warplane.com/index.html

Here is link to finding other museum in Canada:

http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/World/North_America/Canada/index.htm

Or simply click on the Province: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan Yukon