DCHP-3

Pinetree Line

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a coast-to-coast system of radar stations across southern Canada, equipped to detect and warn of approaching aircraft or missiles.

Quotations

1956
At 13 stations in eight provinces along Canada's coast to coast Pinetree Line, reservists . . . stood ready to scramble aircraft aloft to intercept any unidentified planes that turned up on the screens.
1963
It will be one of five Western Canada sites of the Pinetree line . . . which will become operational at the same time.