🇨🇦 Barker Field

Barker Field (CA-0484) in Toronto, Canada, originally opened as Century Airport in 1927 in Downsview, North York Township. It was renamed Barker Field on June 6, 1931, to honor decorated World War I flying ace Lieutenant Colonel William "Billy" Barker, who died in an airplane crash in 1930. Located at the northwest corner of Lawrence Avenue and Dufferin Street, the airfield utilized grass and dirt runways and served as a base for several air operators, including Toronto Airways, Century Airways, and National Air Transport, and hosted Canadian Colonial Airlines' passenger service to Buffalo and Leavens Brothers Air Service's aviation training school. The airfield was owned by Cyril L. Murray from 1937 until the late 1940s. Barker Field has since closed and "vanished from the landscape," with little remaining to indicate its aviation past, implying the site has been redeveloped.