My Dad was a Flight Instructor for the RCAF during the war. He was stationed at three different locations, Uplands in Ottawa, St Hubert near Montreal and Whitby east of Toronto; all part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). Dad didn't talk much about the war. It reminded him of the pilots he trained that were killed overseas. But he talked openly about flying and the aircraft he flew during instruction with the BCATP. He loved the Harvard. He was fascinated by the history and the experience of flying the Tiger Moth, the older, ever forgiving biplane. And he was impressed by the manoeuvrability of the much larger twin engine Avro Anson. My oldest brother was able to coax more information from him than I could. He admitted he was one of the the RCAF flying instructors at Whitby that was tasked with teaching some of the 'Camp X' crew how to how to fly single and multi engine aircraft for their spy missions in occupied Europe. From my oldest brother, Ken:
These are the online jottings of a retired broadcaster!