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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Winisk 90 (category Canada ghost town stubs)
Peawanuck, 30 km inland. Winisk was home to Royal Canadian Air Force Station Winisk, a Mid-Canada Line radar control station from 1958 to 1965. The town...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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CFS Ramore (category Installations of the United States Air Force in Canada)
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 Site...
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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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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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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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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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Michigan Compiled Laws Maximum Contaminant Level Maximum Coupling Loss Mid-Canada Line of early-warning radar stations 1150 in Roman numerals Macintosh Common...
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War Plan Red (category Canada–United States relations)
territory on most world maps. Many different war plans were prepared by mid-level officers primarily as training exercises in how to calculate the logistical...
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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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