Pinetree Line Home Page

The Background and Political Climate

• Background

  This section introduces the philosophy of why this Web site was created and to whom it is dedicated.

• In The Beginning

  The beginning of the Pinetree Line.

• Slide Show

  This series of slides is reproduced from an official presentation from the Cold War era. It clearly shows the overwhelming concern about nuclear attack and stresses the kind of political and military climate that the thousands of personnel lived with while serving on the Pinetree Line.

• Reports

  This section offers an assortment of monthly progress reports which originated within the Pinetree Project Office covering the Pinetree Line during the years 1952-55. We have also obtained a small number of Canadian External Relations reports which pertain to the Pinetree Line or Contintental Defence during the years 1952-55.

The Physical Locations:

• Radar Stations Map

  This map shows the location of the 44 Pinetree Line radar sites on a map of Canada. Click on the map for a larger and more detailed view.

• Air Defense Boundaries

  This series of maps shows the locations of the various Regional Operational Control Centres, NORAD boundaries and radar coverage by the various sites and spans the years 1955 through 1975.

• Pinetree Locations

  This is the index page for the 44 sites on the Pinetree Line. Beside each name is the date of the last update of information for that site. Clicking on the name of a station takes you to an "index card" with statistical data and links to photos, area maps, crests and travel detail specific to that station. Not all the detail is complete. If you have information that can fill in the gaps please consider contributing to this site.

• Gap Fillers

  Besides the main stations on the Pinetree Line there were a series of "Gap Fillers" planned and built to cover the gaps in radar coverage. Information on these sites are similar to that for the main locations.

• Metz, France

  Metz France was the location of 61 AC&W Squadron. There were also a number of other lodger units located at Metz such as 1 Air Division HQ, Support Unit (SU) Metz and 601 Telecom Squadron to name a few. We also offer detail on the RCAF Cemetery which was located at Choloy.

Miscellaneous

• Miscellaneous

  This page is the gathering place for all items that don't fit in anywhere else on this site.

Other Pinetree Line Pages

• Other Resources

  This page includes Web sites, articles, books and videos that are related to the Pinetree Line. If you are looking for more information this is a great starting point.