Between 1940 and 1945, Canada trained 131,533
Commonwealth pilots and air crew under the BCATP for
the Allied war effort. To do so, the RCAF had to
expand its aerodrome infrastructure to accommodate
over one hundred training schools and their auxiliary
fields. Few historians have considered the site
selection process, assuming that community lobbying
and political patronage determined where air bases
were built. To verify these hypotheses, the author
has consulted the primary records (politicians
personal papers, communities lobbying letters,
official investigation reports, and final...