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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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    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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    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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    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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    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 staffed and...
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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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  • the community of Lingan Road, Nova Scotia. It was operational as a Pinetree Line radar station from April 1954 to January 1991. For Information on the...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    - Historic Forts on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com. "The CADIN Pinetree Line Locations". Smallwood, Joseph R (1981). Encyclopedia of Newfoundland...
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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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    radar stations along coastal Labrador as part of the Pinetree Line, Mid-Canada Line and DEW Line systems. Today, the remaining stations are automated...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Operation Inland Seas Permanent Joint Board on Defense Ogdensburg Agreement Pinetree Line Project HARP War Plan Red Economic relations Comparison of Canadian...
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  • British Columbia. It was closed in 1988. It was operated as part of the Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD. As a result of the Cold War and with the...
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  • lost their air defence role. 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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    Space Shuttle ever "landed" outside the United States. In 1988, the Pinetree Line radar site (Melville Air Station) adjacent to CFB Goose Bay was closed...
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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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    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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  • Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD. It has since been sold and is now private property. Ramore is located close to the site of Mid-Canada Line...
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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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    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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