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Border Beacon
Mid-Canada Line Site 212
Part of Mid-Canada Line
Labrador, Canada
Border Beacon is located in Newfoundland and Labrador
Border Beacon
Border Beacon
Coordinates55°19′58″N 63°12′51″W / 55.332761°N 63.214139°W / 55.332761; -63.214139
Site information
Controlled by Royal Canadian Air Force
Site history
Built1957
Built by Royal Canadian Air Force
In use1958 – April 1965
Demolished1987
Airfield information
Runways
Direction Length and surface
08/26 1,500 m (4,900 ft) Gravel

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]

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

  1. ^ a b https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/089758-RPT9-FINAL-Border-Beacon-Site-212-Report.pdf
  2. ^ "Mid canada line".
  3. ^ The NBC Group (1997). "Mid-Canada Line". A History of the Air Defence of Canada 1948-1997. ISBN 0-9681973-0-2.
  4. ^ https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/env-protection-impactedsites-borderbeacon-rpt-fin-121414998-phaseiiiesa-hhera-border-beacon-20190407.pdf