David Langlois

David Langlois was born in 1948 in his parent's bedroom, on the south coast of England, immediately beside the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm airport at Lee-on-the-Solent. The noise and smells of aviation have since fascinated him his entire life. He arrived in Canada in 1957 when his father came to work on the Avro Arrow. He has had an eclectic career, encompassing computer programming, systems analysis, project management, program evaluation, and music. At one point in his life he considered being an operatic tenor. He wrote the International Study on Pre-Board Screening which outlined how Canada's CATSA would work, and was a contributing editor to the IATA Airport Reference Manual (2004). He has conducted over 85 Performance Reviews of Canada's Airport Authorities. His musical play "Till We Meet Again", set in a WW2 radio station, has been seen by over 60,000 persons. He wrote the definitive history of Canada's 21 Airport Authorities, published as "Courage and Innovation - the Story of the Men and Women Who Created Canada's Airport Authorities". His latest work is a history of Hudson, QC entitled "An English Island". He lives in Russell. Ontario with his wife Patricia and his Portuguese Waterdog, Molly.