Breadner Elementary School was named in honour of Air Marshall Lloyd Samuel Breadner. The school was closed in 2017 and demolished in 2019.
Lloyd Samuel Breadner was born in July 1894 at Carleton Place. In 1915, he left the family business in Ottawa to enlist in the Royal Naval Air Service. He spent most of the First World War as a fighter pilot in France.
When the war ended, his flying skills earned him a position with the Canadian Air Board and he was appointed as the first Commanding Officer of Camp Borden 3 in 1924. He rapidly moved up the hierarchy and served as Director of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) from 1928 to 1932. In 1936, Breadner received training at the Imperial Defence College. In 1940, he succeeded in G.M. Croil as Chief of the Air Staff.
During the Second World War, Breadner is credited with turning the RCAF into one of the most powerful air forces in the world. On January 1, 1944, he was posted to London as Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, RCAF Overseas. Upon his retirement in 1945, Lloyd Breadner was promoted to Chief Air Marshal, the only Canadian ever to hold this rank. He died in March 1952 in Boston.
