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I just fell in here researching this topic. My dad was an airframe mechanic in the RCAF and trained in Galt (his high-school tech qualification was cabinet making but since the RCAF aircraft had a lot of wood including flight surfaces, propellers, etc ... so a good fit!). During the 30s Galt Collegiate Institute added vocational training capability which was seconded for the war effort: a GCI history page has an actual picture of airframe mechanic trainees gathered in the machine shop. GCI is our longest continually operated secondary school.