Border Beacon

{{Short description|Former Royal Canadian Air Force military installation in Labrador}}

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| name = Border Beacon

| native_name = Mid-Canada Line Site 212

| partof = Mid-Canada Line

| location = Labrador, Canada

| ensign = File:Roundel of the USAF.svg

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| map_type = Canada Newfoundland and Labrador

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| map_caption = Location of MCL Site 212

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| built = 1957

| builder = {{air force|USA}}

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| used = 1958 – April 1965

| demolished = 1987

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| controlledby = {{air force|USA}}

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| r1-number = 08/26

| r1-length = {{Convert|1500|m|abbr=on}}

| r1-surface = Gravel

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Border Beacon (Mid-Canada Line Site 212) was a United States Air Force military installation in Labrador, located approximately 190 km (120 mi) west of the Town of Hopedale.{{cite report |title=Phase I Environmental Site Assessment: Former US Military Mid Canada Line Radar Site 212, Border Beacon, NL |publisher=Department of Environment and Conservation |author=GHD Group |pages=i–ii |url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/089758-RPT9-FINAL-Border-Beacon-Site-212-Report.pdf }} Border Beacon was a bistatic radar Doppler Detection Station on the Mid-Canada Line system of early-warning radar stations.{{cite web | url = http://www.lswilson.ca/scs500.htm | title = Mid canada line}}

Opened in 1957, and fully operational in 1958,{{cite book | last1 = The NBC Group | title = A History of the Air Defence of Canada 1948-1997 | chapter = Mid-Canada Line | year = 1997 | isbn = 0-9681973-0-2}} Border Beacon was in operation for eight years. The eastern portion of the Mid-Canada Line was shut down in 1965 and the site was closed.{{cite report |title=Phase III Environmental Site Assessment and Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment, Site 212, Border Beacon, NL |publisher=Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment |author=Stassinu Stantec Limited Partnership |date=7 May 2019 |url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/files/env-protection-impactedsites-borderbeacon-rpt-fin-121414998-phaseiiiesa-hhera-border-beacon-20190407.pdf }}