Gordon Roy McGregor
Nickname: "GR" McGregor
Birthdate: September 26, 1901
Birth Place: Montreal, Quebec
Year Inducted: 1973
Death Date: March 3, 1971
Awards: CC OBE DFC
"His dedication to the linking together of this nation's far-flying communities by a national air service, has been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation."
Gordon McGregor was educated at St. Andrew's College, Toronto, Ontario and graduated from McGill University at Montreal in 1923 with a degree in Engineering. His flying career began at Kingston, Ontario in 1932 and the following year he gained his pilot's license at Ottawa. He served as a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain in which he downed numerous enemy aircraft. After the war, McGregor worked for Trans-Canada Air Lines at Montreal and three years later was named president. He also became the principal figure in guiding the airline through its difficult years of expansion, with the result that Air Canada, as it was renamed in 1965, became one of the world's leading carriers.
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
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