# Border Beacon

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{{Short description|Former Royal Canadian Air Force military installation in Labrador}}
{{Infobox military installation
| name = Border Beacon
| native_name = Mid-Canada Line Site 212
| partof = [Mid-Canada Line](/source/Mid-Canada_Line)
| location = [Labrador](/source/Labrador), [Canada](/source/Canada)
| ensign = File:Roundel of the USAF.svg
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| map_caption = Location of MCL Site 212
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| built = 1957
| builder = {{air force|USA}}
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| used = 1958 – April 1965
| demolished = 1987
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| r1-number = 08/26
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| r1-surface = Gravel
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'''Border Beacon''' (Mid-Canada Line Site 212) was a [United States Air Force](/source/United_States_Air_Force) military installation in [Labrador](/source/Labrador), located approximately 190&nbsp;km (120&nbsp;mi) west of the Town of [Hopedale](/source/Hopedale%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador).<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite report |title=Phase I Environmental Site Assessment: Former US Military Mid Canada Line Radar Site 212, Border Beacon, NL |publisher=Department of Environment and Conservation |author=[GHD Group](/source/GHD_Group) |pages=i–ii |url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/089758-RPT9-FINAL-Border-Beacon-Site-212-Report.pdf }}</ref> Border Beacon was a [bistatic radar](/source/bistatic_radar) Doppler Detection Station on the [Mid-Canada Line](/source/Mid-Canada_Line) system of early-warning radar stations.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lswilson.ca/scs500.htm | title = Mid canada line}}</ref>

Opened in 1957, and fully operational in 1958,<ref>{{cite book | last1 = The NBC Group | title = A History of the Air Defence of Canada 1948-1997 | chapter = Mid-Canada Line | year = 1997 | publisher = Commander Fighter | isbn = 0-9681973-0-2}}</ref> Border Beacon was in operation for eight years. The eastern portion of the Mid-Canada Line was shut down in 1965 and the site was closed.<ref>{{cite report |title=Phase III Environmental Site Assessment and Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment, Site 212, Border Beacon, NL |publisher=Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment |author=Stassinu Stantec Limited Partnership |date=7 May 2019 |url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/env-protection-impactedsites-borderbeacon-rpt-fin-121414998-phaseiiiesa-hhera-border-beacon-20190407.pdf }}</ref>

==Transport Canada==
The Government of Canada took possession of the Border Beacon site from the US in 1965 and transformed it into a weather station. Transport Canada operated the weather station until it closed in the 1970s.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

==Accidents and incidents==
*On 10 January 1986, a [de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver](/source/de_Havilland_Canada_DHC-2_Beaver) (''C-GUBD'') of Goose Bay Air Services departed [CFB Goose Bay](/source/CFB_Goose_Bay) and crashed at Border Beacon due to unknown circumstances.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dhc-2.com/id1057.htm | title=C-GUBD with Goose Bay Air Service |website=dhc-2.com : The web site dedicated to the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver |first=Neil |last=Aird }}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
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Border Beacon
Category:Meteorological stations
Category:Radar stations of the United States Air Force
Category:Installations of the United States Air Force in Canada
Category:Military installations in Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:Military installations closed in 1965
Category:Military installations established in 1957
Category:1957 establishments in Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:1965 disestablishments in Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:Defunct airports in Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:Foreign military bases in Canada
Category:Meteorological Service of Canada

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