Former Mid Canada Line Radar Site 070 Ramore / Mt. Kempis
In the boreal forest of Northern Ontario, just off the Trans Canada Highway, a 1.2 kilometre drive down a rough road, then a 200 metre bushwack along an overgrown section of what used to be a road, followed by a 100 metre walk across a patch of gravel that is growing over with shrubs leads to a most unexpected trilingual gold-coloured plaque mounted on the face of a cliff. During the Cold War, this was the location of a relay station that passed radar signals from near Hudson Bay on to NORAD headquarters in the joint Canadian-American effort to keep North America safe from Soviet attack. (Another former radar station with more impressive ruins is located on nearby Lava Mountain.) The plaque commemorates the site cleanup some 4 decades after it closed.
FORMER MID CANADA LINE RADAR SITE
SITE 070 RAMORE/MT. KEMPIS
November 2009
Through the collaboration of the following partners the contamination at this site has been cleaned up so that future generations may enjoy the area:
Ce site a été dépollué et restauré pour que les générations futures puissent profiter de cette zone. Ont collaboré aux travaux les partenaires suivants:
[Cree translation]
Ministry of Natural Resources
Matachewan First Nation
Wahgoshig First Nation
Department of National Defence
Golder Associates Innovative Applications (GAIA) Inc.
SNC Lavalin Inc.
Submitted by Tim Sikkema