Edmonton museum sets sights on restoring Cold War radar tower

Source: CBC News, June 6, 2018 

‘It’s part of our national heritage. There is no better way to preserve it’

A Cold War-era radar tower — constructed to scan the skies for Soviet bombers, then abandoned on the Prairie grasslands — will soon be restored to its former glory.

Edmonton’s Canadian Civil Defence Museum and Archives has purchased the Canadian Forces Station Alsask site near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border nearly 450 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.

The isolated historic site is home to a four-storey steel and fibreglass domed tower that once housed a military command centre.

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Image Source: Canadian Civil Defence Museum And Archives

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