Business View Magazine Feb 2023

212 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 OUTDOOR ADVENTURE LIVES HERE find your next adventure at NORTHEASTERNONTARIO.COM airport also serves as an economic driver for the city and the surrounding area. “This is also the airport closest to the North Coast,” explains Rock Robitaille, Airport Manager, “We serve the people on the James Bay coast by hauling freight out of Kapuskasing to three communities up the coast, Attawapiskat, Fort Albany, and Kashechewan. We also host evacuees in the springtime due to flooding in these communities. We have hosted five to six hundred evacuees here each spring for the last 13 years. We had commercial air traffic through Bearskin Airlines, but the demand dropped below what is sustainable for them, and now we are mainly a cargo airport.” With a 5506 X 100 foot asphalt runway, an administration building, as well as a cargo terminal, Kapuskasing Airport was run by Transport Canada until 1997, when the airport was decommissioned, and ownership was transferred to the city. By that point, Robitaille had worked