Canada - Northern Ontario - Kapuskasing # 1
This historic Kapuskasing Internment Camp plaque represents a sad chapter in Canada’s history.
The height-finder is an older one ground-based type of 2-dimensional radar that measures the elevation angle and estimates the altitude of a target.
The antenna pattern of a height-finder radar is a fan beam, quite narrow in azimuth but still much narrower in the elevation angle. The entire antenna of the altitude finder radar is moved mechanically up and down, in a nodding movement, which led to it also being called nodding radar.
There is much more to the below report in the same style. What it eventually gets to is this base is part of the Pine Tree Line of NORAD - it followed the Canada/U.S. border from BC to Lake Superior then swept up to Kapuskasing east to northern NB. In Nova Scotia we heard much more about the Dew Line - Distant Early Warning built above the Arctic circle from Alaska to Greenland. This is what we were told by Biden to replace in Trudeau’s second term. There was also the Mid-Canada Line generally from the Pacific along the provincial/territorial borders east to northern Quebec. In Newport Corner NS was one of the Communication bases for NORAD. Within five miles of Newport Corner is also Newport Station and Newport. Best not to confuse them. Russian fishing trawlers came into Halifax regularly to re-supply. It was assumed there were spies as well as fishermen on board. Funny, Russians don’t need to fish in the North Atlantic anymore.
Air Defence Group Headquarters
CFB North Bay
Hornell Height, Ontario
P0H 1P0
ATTENTION: A/COS C AND E ADM O
HISTORY OF CFS LOWTHER
REF: A. - Your DCSCE 332 dated 252000Z MAR 76
- The following is an outline of the unit history pertaining to the operational complex and equipment was used at CFS Lowther from its inception to the present date:
CFS Lowther was originally built by the USAF in 1957 and designated the 639th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. The station became operational in 1958 with the call sign C119. On 01 Jul 63, the station was officially handed over to the RCAF and became known as 36 Radar Squadron. On 10 Aug 67, the station was re-designated Canadian Forces Station Lowther.