coordinates) The Mid-Canada Line (MCL), also known as the McGill Fence, was a line of radar stations running east–west across the middle of Canada, used to provide...
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Mid-Canada Line Site 070 Kempis was a part of the Mid-Canada Line air defence network. During the late 1950s, the Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was developed...
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Mid-Canada Line Site 060 Relay was a part of the Mid-Canada Line air defence network. During the late 1950s, the Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was developed as...
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The Canada Line is a rapid transit line in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that is part of the SkyTrain system. The line is owned by TransLink...
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Mid-Canada Line Site 050 Fort Albany was a part of the Mid-Canada Line air defence network. During the late 1950s, the Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was developed...
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provide enough warning time to launch an effective counterattack. The Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was proposed as an inexpensive solution using bistatic radar...
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alternative early warning design was the Mid-Canada Line, which provided "line breaking" indication across the middle of Canada, with no provision to identify the...
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Mid-Canada Line. By 1957, just over a year after the Mid-Canada Line was operational, a more advanced long-range search radar, mainly in the Canadian...
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Station Dunnville RCAF Detachment Gananoque Canada portal Staff Writer c.1942, p. 22 The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland Staff writer (c. 1942)...
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RCAF Station Great Whale River (category Royal Canadian Air Force stations)
1957 when it became Sector Control Station 400 of the Mid-Canada Line. After the Mid-Canada Line project was terminated there was no longer any need for...
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The Mid-Canada Corridor is a strategic plan created by Canadian veteran and land-use planner Richard Rohmer, proposing massive development of Canadian land...
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Hopedale Air Station (category Installations of the United States Air Force in Canada)
Hopedale as the Sector Control Station (Site 200) for the Mid-Canada Line. Since 1992, the Canadian Forces have operated a Short Range Radar facility at a...
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time, the Pinetree Line, the Mid-Canada Line and the DEW Line radar stations, largely operated by the RCAF, were built across Canada because of the growing...
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Border Beacon (category Installations of the United States Air Force in Canada)
Border Beacon (Mid-Canada Line Site 212) was a United States Air Force military installation in Labrador, located approximately 190 km (120 mi) west of...
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RCAF Station Winisk (category Cold War military history of Canada)
Ontario. RCAF Winisk was one of eight Sector Control Stations on the Mid-Canada Line system of radar stations. Each SCS received signals from a series of...
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filter out low-speed objects. Migrating birds flying by the similar Mid-Canada Line (MCL) stations had rendered that system useless during spring and fall...
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Pinetree Line was established north of the US-Canada border, and in 1953 Canada built the Mid-Canada Line, which was manned by the Canadian military....
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followed by similar systems like White Alice, relays on the Mid-Canada Line and the DEW Line, and during the 1960s, across the Atlantic Ocean and Europe...
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developed in the middle of Canada, known as the Mid-Canada Line; and across the 50th parallel north, known as the Pinetree Line. Canada addressed the threat...
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Radar picket (section Kammhuber Line)
These were the Pinetree Line (1951), the Mid-Canada Line (1956), and the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line (1957). The DEW Line would be equipped with AN/FPS-19...
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Labrador (redirect from Labrador, Canada)
Canadian Air Force and United States Air Force built and operated a number of radar stations along coastal Labrador as part of the Pinetree Line, Mid-Canada...
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RCAF Station Cranberry Portage (category Cold War military history of Canada)
Portage was one of eight Sector Control Stations (SCS 700) on the Mid-Canada Line system of early warning radar stations. Each SCS received signals from...
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Cranberry Portage (redirect from Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, Canada)
a Mid-Canada Line Installation. In March 1964, the Government of Canada ceased its operations in Cranberry Portage. The entire complex that was Mid Canada...
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time, the Pinetree Line, the Mid-Canada Line and the DEW Line radar stations, largely operated by the RCAF, were built across Canada because of the growing...
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angels were a problem for all radars of the era, they rendered the Canadian Mid-Canada Line almost unusable in the spring and fall when millions of large birds...
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Telephone numbers in Canada follow the fixed-length format of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) of a three-digit area code, a three-digit central...
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Peawanuck (category Use Canadian English from January 2023)
-85.183), near the mouth of the Winisk River. This also used to be a Mid-Canada Line Radar site. In 1986, its population was forced to abandon Winisk as...
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era radar networks: Lashup Radar Network Pinetree Line Mid-Canada Line Distant Early Warning Line Keeney, L. Douglas (2011). 15 Minutes: General Curtis...
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Okanagan participated in the construction and maintenance of the Mid-Canada Line of radar stations, using a mixed fleet of Sikorsky S-55 and Bell 47s...
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proclaiming it the longitudinal centre of Canada; in effect, the north-south line midway between the extreme points of Canada on the east and west, including islands...
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