Beaverbank, NS

1998 - A Visit to Beaverbank – Barbara Barrett


April, 1998

Greetings from Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia. Yes - you read it correctly. In the "good old days" the community was known as "Beaverbank" but today, the community is known as "Beaver Bank".

I first communicated with Ren L’Ecuyer of the Pinetree Line web site on 21 March, 1998. He had obtained my e-mail address through the Internet and decided to contact me in the hopes of obtaining some detail on the radar station which was located in Beaverbank between 1954 and 1964. Ongoing communication continued via the Internet. I had offered my assistance to the Pinetree Line web site and it was just a matter of time before Ren requested consideration for a visit to the site of the original radar station to take some photos of the remains.

So, in April 1998, I proceeded to the original domestic site to check out the remains of the Beaverbank radar station. Most of the original buildings within the domestic site still exist and the complex is now being used as a Nursing Home. The following photographs depict the situation as it exists today.



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  1. Signs leading into the Villa/Scotia Nursing Home Complex - April 1998.

  2. Signs leading into the Villa/Scotia Nursing Home Complex - April 1998.

  3. Garages as you first enter the complex - April 1998.

  4. Garages as you first enter the complex - April 1998.

  5. Old portion of the Nursing Home - April 1998.

  6. Addition being constructed at the front of the Nursing Home - April 1998.

  7. Addition being constructed at the front of the Nursing Home - April 1998.

  8. Church at end of road with Fire Hall on right and Nursing Home on left - April 1998.

  9. Buildings to the right of the road as you enter the complex - April 1998.

  10. Fire Hall - April 1998.

  11. PMQs (Married Quarters) - April 1998.

  12. PMQs (Married Quarters) - April 1998.

  13. PMQs (Married Quarters) - April 1998.

  14. PMQs (Married Quarters) - April 1998.

  15. PMQs (Married Quarters) - April 1998.

  16. PMQs (Married Quarters) - April 1998.

  17. PMQs (Married Quarters) - April 1998.

  18. Road with gate to control access - April 1998.

  19. Side road near entrance leading to back of Nursing Home - April 1998.

  20. General buildings - April 1998.

  21. Road leading out of the Nursing Home complex - April 1998.

  22. Nursing Home and road leading out of complex - April 1998.

  23. Addition to Nursing Home - April 1998.

  24. Maintenance garage - April 1998.


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All photos are used with permission.


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