Dreams Take Flight Calgary
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The Dreams Take Flight charity was started in 1989. A group of Air Canada employees in Toronto organized a trip that took 70 special needs children on board a DC-9 aircraft to Walt Disney World in Florida. 

            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 767 aircraft on October 16, 1993 for the 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 Canada wide with all participating cities operating under one logo and one name “Dreams Take Flight Canada / Voyage De Reves”.  There are eight Dreams Take Flight chapters across Canada to include Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. Dreams Take Flight is a registered charity in Canada. 

            Dreams Take Flight 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.

             Over the last nineteen years the Dreams Take Flight chapter in Calgary has organized this adventure for special needs children that live in Calgary and Southern Alberta. The Calgary chapter of Dreams Take Flight has taken 2548 children on twenty one flights over the 19 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. 

 

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