Stafford W. Edwards

I hail from the small Caribbean island of Jamaica in the West Indies. I emigrated with my parents and younger brother to Alberta Canada at the age of seventeen, over forty-four years ago.

After graduating from high school in Edmonton, I attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, where I acquired my Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Diploma. Shortly thereafter, I applied to Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, where I completed my Aviation Technology Degree and received my Commercial Pilot’s license, Multi-Engine Instrument Rating, and Float Plane Endorsements.

My initial career started with the Federal Government of Canada, in Transport Canada’s Air Traffic Control System. My first posting was as an Air Traffic Control Flight Planner in the control tower of a small regional air-port—Toronto’s Buttonville Airport (CYKZ) in Markham, Ontario. After a few years, I transferred to Canada’s busiest airport, Lester B. Pearson International (CYYZ) in Toronto, where I worked in the control tower before transitioning to the Toronto Area Control (Radar) Centre. Thereafter, my career path diverted into Information Technology, a vocation in which I still continue to this day.