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Project Wood Duck: CW Doppler Detection Experiments

Declassified records from Library and Archives Canada documenting Project Wood Duck, the 1954–1955 experimental program that proved continuous-wave Doppler detection technology for the Mid-Canada Line.

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Provenance

Scanned records obtained from Library and Archives Canada (LAC item e011918809). Crown Copyright on these documents has long expired. The bundle includes correspondence, personnel assignments for the Doppler Program, vehicle requisition forms for mobile laboratories used in Project Lone Wolf, and field operations documentation from Shirley Bay and Kingsville, Ontario.

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Also attached to this page: the Library and Archives Canada finding aid for the John Chapman fonds (MG31-J43 / R5328, finding aid MSS1960), the file-by-file map of the collection these records came from, including several related files not yet digitized (the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary correspondence, the AN/FPS-503 equipment specifications, and the Mid-Canada Line unusual-readings reports). Download the finding aid (PDF). © Library and Archives Canada, reproduced for non-commercial research purposes.