November 7, 2012 Volume 8 • Number 45 50¢ Newsstand Price
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Mount Lolo brings memories backA&WtoCHARITY life
If you’re looking for something interesting to do to honour our veterans on Remembrance Day this year, you may want first check out the city’s Remembrance Day ceremonies and then take a drive up to Mount Lolo and retrace some of Kamloops’ Cold War history. Mount Lolo (1748m) is a summit 20 km northeast of Kamloops, between Paul and Heffley Lakes. It was named for Jean Baptiste Lolo (also known as Chief Lolo) - an Iroquois-French Canadian Métis who served in the employ of the Hudson’s Bay Company as an interpreter and right-hand man to Chief Trader John Tod at Fort Fraser and Fort Kamloops. As a result of the Cold War the US decided to expand the North American continental air defence system. Kamloops was selected as a site for a United States Air Force radar station, one of the many that would make up the Pinetree Line of Ground-Control Intercept radar sites. The line was the first coordinated system for early detection of a Soviet bomber attack on North America. It included a series of 33 main stations and six smaller “gap fillers”. The majority of these ran in a line at about the 53rd parallel in the west (to offer coverage of major Canadian cities) and about the 50th parallel in the east. A second line ran up the eastern
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Teresa Cline, Amber Topham and Tracey Neville on top of Mount Lolo.
seaboard from the southern tip of unable to detect targets close to the Nova Scotia to the southern tip of ground due to “clutter”. Another was that its location near populaBaffin Island. The Pinetree Line had sever- tion centers meant it offered only al technical problems that limited a “last minute” warning, and as its usefulness almost immediately. the USSR moved to jet-powered For one, the system used classic bombers the warning time was pulsed mode radar, which made it even less. Studies were already NSBIA - lug May11.indd 1
underway in 1951 to build a much smaller series of more capable Doppler radar stations somewhat further north, which would develop into the Mid-Canada Line, and just over a year after MCL, a more advanced system in the extreme – continued on page 2
City of Kamloops
38th Annual Seniors Christmas Light Tour Thursday, December 20th ~ 6:00 to 10:00 pm
Join us on a tour around town to see the best lights of the City. A bus will pick you up and return you to your pick up location.
To register call 250-828-3500 ~ Program #199635 ~ Registration Deadline: Dec. 17th www.kamloops.ca