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Hello, my name is Thomas Gray. I created this blog for my Haunted Landscapes class at Fanshawe College. In my post, I talk about a haunted place I went to this spring before the class started.
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The Visit to RCAF Station Edgar
On the weekend on April 13, 2019, my friends and I decided to go up to visit a friend in Barrie, Ontario. Little did we know that it was going to be the experience of a lifetime. Our Barrie friend decided to take us to an abandoned military base just 20 minutes out Barrie a called RCAF Station Edgar. RCAF Station Edgar played an important role in the defence of Canada for 12 years becoming operational in 1952. Originally called No. 204 RCAF Ratio Station, it was the most southern station of the Pinetree Line. The Pinetree Line had three early-warning detection lines that protected Canada against a Soviet air attack. The other two lines were located on the east coast, southern Ontario and Quebec. The Pinetree Line stations were a lot smaller than the full-size military base but they were still self-contained towns. They had a standard military house and a barracks. Also contained within the stations were an infirmary, a fire hall, a water treatment plant, auto repair shop, a s