CFS Yorkton
Encyclopedia
Royal Canadian Air Force Station Yorkton (ADC ID: C-51) was a Long Range Radar (LRR) and Ground Air Transmitter Receiver (GATR) facility of the Pinetree Line
. The site was SAGE
compatible from day one.
The site was renamed to Canadian Forces Station or CFS Yorkton in 1967.
It was located near Yorkton, Saskatchewan
, Canada
, during the Cold War
.
Construction was started in 1961.
Radar functions were operated by 46 Radar Squadron under the control of NORAD.
The station was operational from 1963-1986.
The White Spruce Youth Treatment Centre took over the site as a the a youth addiction facility. A lot of the original buildings remain in good condition.
Pinetree Line
The Pinetree Line was a series of radar stations located across the northern United States and southern Canada at about the 50th parallel north, along with a number of other stations located on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Run by NORAD , over half were manned by United States Air Force...
. The site was SAGE
Semi Automatic Ground Environment
The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment was an automated control system for tracking and intercepting enemy bomber aircraft used by NORAD from the late 1950s into the 1980s...
compatible from day one.
The site was renamed to Canadian Forces Station or CFS Yorkton in 1967.
It was located near Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, during the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
.
Construction was started in 1961.
Radar functions were operated by 46 Radar Squadron under the control of NORAD.
The station was operational from 1963-1986.
The White Spruce Youth Treatment Centre took over the site as a the a youth addiction facility. A lot of the original buildings remain in good condition.
