DCHP-3

Mid-Canada line

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a system of radar stations stretching across Canada and designed to give early warning of hostile attack through the air.

Quotations

1957
. . . the Mid-Canada Line of early warning stations is now almost finished. . . .
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 . . . federal and provincial.