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Distant Early Warning Line
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a 3,000-mile network of radar stations and airstrips for interceptor aircraft, extending from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Baffin Island and intended for defence against attack by air.
See: DEW Line
Quotations
1955
The employment opportunities for local labor, created by the construction of the Distant Early Warning line . . . have provided some much needed additional income. . . .
1965
The construction of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line and the Mid-Canada Line in the mid-1950's, with their great freight movements throughout the North, gave impetus to the activity of the governments, both federal and provincial.