Backroads Bill on Ontario's abandoned radar sites

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 heightof 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 talkmore about his trip to these abandoned radarbases, a relic of Canada's past.

Listen to the interview here.

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This week on the Backroads, Bill Steer told us about the twisted bits of metal and concrete that litter parts of northern Ontario.

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