This summer I visited a former site of the Pinetree Line, in Foymount, Ontario. This was for a time the last-resort line of radars tasked with detecting incoming Soviet bombers.

There was another line of radars, much further north, called the Distant Early Warning line, or DEW line. The Toronto Star has an excellent in-depth story by Sandro Contenta (with photos) on the environmental cleanup of those abandoned radar sites in the Far North. Just as interestingly, and sadly, the article also addresses the human cost to the local populations.

www.thestar.com/printarticle/1236806