Maple Airport was a small airfield in the Township of Vaughan (now a city) in York Region, Ontario, that was open from 1955 until 1987. The airport, established by Marion Alice Orr, one of Canada's first women pilots, consisted of two runways in an X pattern; 3,700 ft (1,100 m) and 2,500 ft (760 m). The early runway were grass strip and paved over in 1960.
At one point, the Maple Airport was the third busiest private commercial and civilian airport in Canada not to have a control tower.
The urbanization of Vaughan and the Maple area led to the closure of the airport 1987.
Nothing remains of the airport today, which is now a housing development and Maple Creek PS now occupies the site. A small park in the neighbourhood was named Maple Airport Park in honour of the former airport.
Famous quotes containing the words maple and/or airport:
“Unloved, that beech will gather brown,
This maple burn itself away;
Unloved, the sun-flower, shining fair,
Ray round with flames her disk of seed,
And many a rose-carnation feed
With summer spice the humming air;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“It was like taking a beloved person to the airport and returning to an empty house. I miss the people. I miss the world.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)