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    The Pinetree Line was a series of radar stations located across southern Canada at about the 50th parallel north, along with a number of other stations...
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    and Alaska. The first of these was the joint Canadian-United States Pinetree Line, which ran from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island just north of the Canada–United...
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    America. It was built to supplement the Pinetree Line, which was located farther south. The majority of Mid-Canada Line stations were used only briefly from...
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  • dictionary. Pine trees are coniferous trees in the genus Pinus. Pine tree or pinetree may also refer to: Pine Tree (album), by South Korean singer Kangta, released...
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    RCAF Station Beaver Bank was a long-range Pinetree Line early warning radar station operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force, located in central Nova...
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    General Surveillance radar station near the airfield as part of the Pinetree Line, designated "N-25". The new station was reassigned in 1953 to the Royal...
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  • a code-name for the troposcatter communications network used by the Pinetree Line air defence radars in the northern states of North America. This disambiguation...
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    on the first troposcatter system, the Pole Vault system that linked Pinetree Line radar systems along the coast of Labrador. Using troposcatter reduced...
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    Line. Other examples (Pinetree Line) have since been built with even better performance. An alternative early warning design was the Mid-Canada Line,...
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  • RCAF Detachment Gananoque Canada portal Staff Writer c.1942, p. 22 The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland Staff writer (c. 1942). Pilots Handbook...
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    a United States Army Air Forces operation, that pre-dated the later Pinetree Line radar bases that were erected shortly thereafter focussing on the cold-war...
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    years operated as Canadian Forces Detachment Alsask as part of the Pinetree Line, operated by the Canadian Armed Forces. Southeast of the town is Alsask...
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    Kurt to collect data about the weather. In the original plans for the Pinetree Line (a series of radar stations along the 50th parallel north), Cape Chidley...
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    bomber forces. In 1951 the Pinetree Line was established north of the US-Canada border, and in 1953 Canada built the Mid-Canada Line, which was manned by the...
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    across North America's polar region. It replaced the Distant Early Warning Line system in the late 1980s. The NWS consists of both long range AN/FPS-117...
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    Station Saglek is a Royal Canadian Air Force radar base in the former Pinetree Line and currently part of the North Warning System, located near Saglek...
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  • St. Sylvestre (RCAF ADC ID: C-6) was a Radar station of the Canadian Pinetree Line, located at Saint-Sylvestre, Quebec, in the Lotbinière Region, sixty-nine...
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  • Station Dana (also known as Sagehill) was opened in 1962 as part of the Pinetree Line of NORAD radar stations. The station was later renamed CFS Dana when...
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    system was first proposed in 1952 to send information along the isolated Pinetree Line stations on the Labrador coast. This led to an initial proposal to use...
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  • and later Canadian Forces personnel stationed at CFS Barrington, a Pinetree Line early warning radar station located 27 km (17 mi) away at Baccaro. Families...
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    Cold War era radar networks: Lashup Radar Network Pinetree Line Mid-Canada Line Distant Early Warning Line Keeney, L. Douglas (2011). 15 Minutes: General...
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  • located in the community of Moisie, Quebec. It was operational as a Pinetree Line radar station from June 1953 to 1988. The Royal Canadian Air Force began...
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  • District, Ontario. It was closed in 1974. It was operated as part of the Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD. There was military activity in Armstrong...
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    middle of Canada, known as the Mid-Canada Line; and across the 50th parallel north, known as the Pinetree Line. Canada addressed the threat posed by Communist...
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    arrangements were settled by Canada taking on the staffing and funding of 11 Pinetree Line radar stations within Canada that had formerly been operated and funded...
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    was largely a United States Army Air Forces operation, pre-dating the Pinetree Line radar bases that were erected to focus on the Cold War threat. The Nakina...
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    massive computers to combine reports sent in via teleprinter from the Pinetree Line and other radar networks to produce a picture of all of the air traffic...
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    run by Air Defence Command. At the same time, the Pinetree Line, the Mid-Canada Line and the DEW Line radar stations, largely operated by the RCAF, were...
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    the DEW Line into Alaska and Greenland. These were the Pinetree Line (1951), the Mid-Canada Line (1956), and the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line (1957)...
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    Moosonee became the site of RCAF Station Moosonee that was part of NORAD's Pinetree Line chain of radar stations. It closed in 1975 and some of its buildings...
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