ICAO and Montreal, World Capital of Civil Aviation
Photo By: Postcard showing the Windsor Hotel
The Windsor Hotel - Site of the first meetings of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization
Photo By: August 1945 – Interim Council in Session at the Windsor Hotel.
Sun Life Building - Permanent seat of the Provisional ICAO
Photo By: Council Chamber in the Sun Life Building. Picture taken in early 1949.
ICAO's first permanent accommodation (1949)
Photo By: 1 June 1950 – Inauguration of the first permanent headquarters during the Fourth Session of the Assembly (Raising of the United Nations flag on top of the building).
The second permanent accommodation (1975)
Photo By: he mural in anodized aluminum, Man in Flight, was commissioned by Switzerland from Hans Erni’s design and installed on 1000 Sherbrooke West in 1975; it covered three sides of the main elevator core of the building quarters. The main side of the mural shows Daedalus on the left and a winged horse on the right.
The third permanent accommodation (1996)
Photo By: Certificate related to the inauguration of the new Headquarters premises on 5 December 1996.
Place de l'Aviation civile internationale
Square-Victoria-OACI Station
Photo By: Official unveiling of the plaque renaming the Metro Station Square-Victoria-OACI on 14 November 2014 (at the City Hall of Montréal). Shown above during the ceremony are (from left to right): the President of the Council of the City of Montréal Mr. Frantz Benjamin; the Minister of International Relations and of the Francophonie of Québec, Mrs. Christine St-Pierre; the Secretary General of ICAO, Mr. Raymond Benjamin; the Mayor of Montréal, Mr. Denis Coderre; the President of the Société de Transport de Montréal (STM), Mr. Philippe Schnobb; Canadian Senator Mr. Leo Housakos; the President of the ICAO Council, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu.
