NORTHERN EXPOSURES

Amelia Earhart visited Canada many times for both business and pleasure. The country would have a profound impact on her life. Here are details of Earhart’s known visits here.

1917–19: Amelia Earhart works as a nursing sister in Toronto during the First World War. While there, she is inspired by training and demonstration flights at the Canadian National Exhibition.

1924: Following her parents’ divorce, Earhart and her mother visit Lake Louise and Calgary in Alberta.

1928: Earhart and her crew overnight in Halifax in early June before departing for Trepassey, Newfoundland, to prepare for her cross-Atlantic flight.

1932: After overnighting in Saint John, New Brunswick, Earhart flies to Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. On May 30, she departs on a solo flight across the Atlantic.

1932: In December, Earhart gives two lectures in Toronto, overnighting at the University Women’s Club.

1933: Earhart visits Canada twice: for a lecture in Vancouver in February and, in October, to visit friends and fellow pilots Amy Johnson Mollison and her husband, James Mollison, at Wasaga Beach, Ontario.

1934: Earhart and her sister Muriel vacation in the summer and fall at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, a famous sport tuna-fishing area.

1935 to 1936: Earhart visits her friend and supporter Texas millionaire Bill Moloska several times at his lodge on Lake Nipissing, Ontario.

1937: Acting as a “world reporter” for Quaker Oats, Earhart in April makes a promotional visit to Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe at his Callender, Ontario, office. Dafoe was the personal physician of the famous Dionne Quintuplets.