Dreams Take Flight
Calgary
CALGARY HISTORY
 In 1993, Air Canada employees in Calgary raised enough money to send 50 children to Disneyland in California. The organizing committees in Calgary and Vancouver shared a Boeing 767aircraft
on October 16, 1993 for the 1993 Dreams Take Flight
adventure. This was the birth of Dreams Take Flight
in Calgary. In 1996 Air Canada President, Hollis Harris donated a B767 aircraft for the exclusive use of the Calgary chapter of
Dreams Take Flight.
In 1997 Dreams Take Flight began to operate on a national level with all participating cities operating under one logo and one name
“Dreams Take Flight”. There are eight Dreams Take Flight
chapters across Canada to include Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.
Dreams Take Flight/Voyage de Rêve is a registered charity in Canada.
Dreams Take Flight Calgary
reaches out to special needs children including terminally and chronically ill children as well as children who are mentally, physically, socially and emotionally challenged. Children who have already visited a Disney resort do not qualify for the trip.
During the last fourteen years the Dreams Take Flight
charity chapter in Calgary has organized this adventure for special needs children in Calgary and Southern Alberta. The Calgary chapter of
Dreams Take Flight has taken 1812 children on seventeen flights over 14 years. The charity is honored to give special needs children the opportunity to visit the Magic Kingdom and participate in the
Dreams Take Flight adventure.
The 16th Annual Calgary
flight will depart October 22, 2008 with 138 children.
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