Backroads Bill on Ontario's abandoned radar sites
“Sometimes we come across those twisted bit of metal and concrete saying that something was there.”
Follow Backroads Bill Steer as he walks through Canadian military history — literally
"Sometimes we come across those twisted bit of metal and concrete saying that something was there."
The relics of Cold-War era northern Ontario are scattered throughout northern Ontario, and Backroads Bill ventured out to track some down.
What he found were radar bases — abandoned for fifty years — on remote paths along the old "pine tree line."
The bases were built at the height of Soviet-American tensions, and serve as a reminder of that generation's constant threat— the Russian invasion.
Along with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and reduced tensions, the bases were eventually sold by the Canadian government or left to nature.
Bill spoke with Peter Williams on Morning North to talk more about his trip to these abandoned radar bases, a relic of Canada's past.
Listen to the interview here.
This week on the Backroads, Bill Steer told us about the twisted bits of metal and concrete that litter parts of northern Ontario.