Border Beacon
Border Beacon (Mid-Canada Line Site 212) was a RCAF military installation in Labrador, located approximately 190 km west of the Town of Hopedale.[1] Border Beacon was a bistatic radar Doppler Detection Station on the Mid-Canada Line system of early-warning radar stations.[2]
| Border Beacon | |||||||
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Mid-Canada Line Site 212 | |||||||
| Part of Mid-Canada Line | |||||||
| Labrador, Canada | |||||||
  Border Beacon | |||||||
| Coordinates | 55.332761°N 63.214139°W | ||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Controlled by |  Royal Canadian Air Force | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| Built | 1957 | ||||||
| Built by | Royal Canadian Air Force | ||||||
| In use | 1958 – April 1965 | ||||||
| Demolished | 1987 | ||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||
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Opened in 1957, and fully operational in 1958,[3] Border Beacon was in operation for eight years. The eastern portion of the Mid-Canada Line was shut down in 1965 and the site was closed.[4]
Transport Canada
The Government of Canada took possession of the Border Beacon site from the US in 1965 and transformed it into a weather station. Transport Canada operated the weather station until it closed in the 1970s.[1]
References
- https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/089758-RPT9-FINAL-Border-Beacon-Site-212-Report.pdf
- "Mid canada line".
- The NBC Group (1997). "Mid-Canada Line". A History of the Air Defence of Canada 1948-1997. ISBN 0-9681973-0-2.
- https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/env-protection-impactedsites-borderbeacon-rpt-fin-121414998-phaseiiiesa-hhera-border-beacon-20190407.pdf
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