«La ligne de radar Mid-Canada ne défend pas vraiment notre pays» (Limbrick, Perspectives/Le Soleil, 1959)

A full-length attack on the Mid-Canada Line published while the line was operational: Perspectives weekend supplement, Le Soleil (Quebec City), 21 November 1959, pp. 10-13, digitized by BAnQ. Limbrick - a retired RCAF Group Captain and radar pioneer who says he would face court martial to make the point - calls the line ‘une immense fumisterie’ (an immense sham) that wasted $250,000,000, ‘only served to discover fishing reserves,’ can neither localize nor track an intruder, and exists ‘only to protect American cities and bases.’ Cautions carried in our footnotes: he is a single dissenting expert; his station count (102) and cost ($250M) differ from official figures (98 stations; $224,566,830); and the French text is almost certainly a translation of an unlocated English original. Quotations on this site are our translation.