Memoirs of a Boffin

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Source Type: personal-account
Author: J. Rennie Whitehead
Publisher: Self-published (whitehead-family.ca)
Year: 1995
URL: https://whitehead-family.ca/drrennie/memoirs.html
Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://whitehead-family.ca/drrennie/chap7.html

Memoir of the McGill physicist who led the McGill Fence development for the Defence Research Board. Chapter 7, ‘The McGill Fence (1951-1955)’, is the key participant account: Lewis’s trip-wire concept, the 1953 Ottawa Valley ‘Spider Web’ test line (Ottawa-Arnprior-Haley Station-Meath-Deep River-Bisset Creek-Mattawa), Lancaster and Comet flight trials, and the 1954 Eastern Townships prototype tests.

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