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Mont-Joli Airport, , is located 1.5 Nautical Mile s (2.78 km) north northwest of Mont-Joli , Quebec , Canada . In the summer of 1940 the Royal Canadian Air Force selected a flat area of farmland between Mont-Joli Station (on the Montreal - Halifax CNR mainline) and the St. Lawrence River for a military airfield. Construction on the aerodrome began in October 1941 and was completed by April 1942 at a cost of $200,000. Three paved runways and 50 buildings were constructed for what became known as RCAF Station Mont-Joli. Inaugurated on April 15 , 1942 , RCAF Station Mont-Joli was used as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan for a bombing and gunnery school until the end of the Second World War . Less well-known was RCAF Station Mont-Joli's critical role during the Battle Of The St. Lawrence when RCAF Eastern Air Command used it as a coastal patrol base; during 1942 - 1944 , dozens of Canadian cargo and warships were sunk by German U-boat s in an effort to close the critical St. Lawrence River waterway off to shipping. Aircraft staging out of Mont-Joli were crucial to warding off U-boats and ensuring the safety of shipping out to the eastern tip of the Gaspé Peninsula at Cap-Gaspé. RCAF Station Mont-Joli was decommissioned by the air force in 1945 and became the property of the Department Of Transport on December 15 , 1945 for use as a civilian airport, and its ownership was transferred in 1995 to the "Régie intermunicipale de l’aéroport régional de Mont-Joli". It is the busiest airport in Eastern Quebec, though still very far from the Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City and Trudeau International Airport in Montreal . REFERENCES
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