Canadian Forces Station Foymount (CFS Foymount) was a military radar station in

Foymount, Ontario Foymount is a community situated in the township of Bonnechere Valley, Ontario, Canada, located on the 512 and Opeongo Road in Renfrew County, west of Eganville. Foymount is approximately 125 kilometres (80 mi) due west of Ottawa. Foymoun ...

, Canada, (part of Bonnechere Valley). RCAF Station Foymount was opened in 1952 as part of the

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 North Ame ...

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radar stations. The radar itself was situated at the top of a 523-metre hill, one of the highest points in Eastern Ontario. The main lodger unit was No. 32 Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, later renamed No. 32 Radar Squadron when the

Semi Automatic Ground Environment The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) was a system of large computers and associated networking equipment that coordinated data from many radar sites and processed it to produce a single unified image of the airspace over a wide area. SA ...

system was implemented in 1961. In 1967, RCAF Station Foymount was renamed CFS Foymount with the unification of the

Canadian Forces } The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; french: Forces armées canadiennes, ''FAC'') are the unified Military, military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Ai ...

. A few years later, the base was declared redundant; radars at CFS Falconbridge and

CFS Lac St. Denis Canadian Forces Station Lac St. Denis (also CFS Lac St. Denis) is a former Canadian Forces Station that was located by Lac St. Denis, 60 miles north of Montreal in the Laurentian Mountains. Construction The base, at 1674 feet above sea level, ...

were deemed sufficiently powerful to monitor Foymount's coverage area. The station was closed in 1974 and sold to private interests.

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External links

Pinetreeline.org - Description of Foymount
{{DEFAULTSORT:Foymount 1952 establishments in Ontario 1974 disestablishments in Ontario Canadian Forces bases in Ontario Royal Canadian Air Force stations