During the war years, the Royal Canadian Air Force operated the airport as an auxiliary base for CFB Borden, to conduct flight training.  In 1943, the field was made available to the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNAF) under the British Air Commonwealth Training Plan.  The RNAF moved their training base to Muskoka from the Toronto City Centre Airport (then Toronto Island Airport).

Many young Norwegians trained to become pilots and air crews at "Little Norway" in Ontario, before returning to the battlefields of Europe to fight side by side with Canadian and other Allied troops.

More history of Little Norway.