Arctic exercise includes show-and-tell in Cambridge Bay
Canadian Armed Forces members unload an M777 howitzer — a lightweight, towed artillery gun — from a CC-130J Hercules aircraft at Cambridge Bay’s airport Sunday. Members of the Joint Task Force Nunalivut are there as part of Operation Nanook-Nunalivut, an annual northern exercise. The armed forces held a public equipment and personnel display at the Cambridge Bay arena Wednesday afternoon with the howitzer set up outside. (Photo courtesy of Master Cpl. Sarah Morley, Canadian Armed Forces)
It is suggested that the unarmed, staffed CAN -DEWLine stations, 50 miles physical separation, 1960-61 were a better “boots on the ground” expression of territorial sovereignty than any line drawn on a territory map. The technical feasibility of CAN’s recently proposed, Australia developed, extremely long range ionospheric scatter radar detection system, located and staffed in ONtario, is as well questionable.