The Mid-Canada Line was a Doppler radar system designed to function as a second line of detection of ‘enemy’ (Soviet) aircraft during the Cold War. It was located more or less along the 55th parallel and consisted of eight main and 90 satellite stations situated from coastal British Columbia to Nova Scotia. Operational from 1958 to 1964, it was too expensive to maintain and wisely closed. Many stations were simply abandoned to the elements.
Will you wait for me
as you are so far away
and I have no means to reach you.
Maybe I will try my paddle boat to
cross the Indian Ocean, swim the lakes
and hobble over the hills and the canyon
