On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

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So today or I can call it morning, I digged up the entire internet to find these to pictures from CLM sirens! I think these are in Hamilton, but not sure and even the locations not sure.

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Well I found these months ago, but these are really rare, not popular pictures about CLMs and a Mobil Directo around Edmonton, AB. Hope someone can find their actual locations. Oh and there is one in Westawiskin

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UPDATE!


Someone said it's located: On 9 Ave north!

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Someone said this is the location, but not sure: Corner of 13 Street and 9 Ave N., sounded 9:15 nightly.
This view is looking at house on West side of 13 Street N.

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Close up of the CLM in Medicine Hat.

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Best picture of the post office CLM in Leduc, AB

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This picture was posted twice, and there are some info for it.

Anyone recall the air raid sirens that were posted around the city? I seem to remember there being one in the forested lot between the church (st Matthews? ) and Sir James Dunn school. Also, another in the city park on Korah Road just north of Douglas Ave.

"Northern Ontario

Air Raid Sirens

Air raid sirens were installed across the cities, positioned so that they could reach the largest possible number of people in event of an emergency.

A steady blast of 3 minutes of more meant an attack was probable or radioactive fallout was expected. A rising-falling sound meant an attack was imminent.

For example by 1952 there were 13 sirens set up in the Sudbury area and the radar base at Falconbridge was built as part of the NORAD Pinetree Line which would be able to detect a Soviet bomber attack.

Children in schools regularly practised hiding under their desks, the safest place to be if an attack materialized and families were encouraged to build bomb shelters.

In 1961 the federal government had replaced these first air raid sirens with better and more powerful models.

There was a lot of criticism especially since military technology had advanced so much that by the time people responded to the siren’s warning the missiles would have hit their target. By the late 1970s most of the 1700 sirens across Canada manufactured primarily by a Canadian company called CLM Industries had not sounded for a decade and dismantling began.

A few have been preserved notably two that are at the Diefenbaker Museum in Ottawa and others that have been restored by collectors.

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Do you remember these?

Air raid sirens were installed so that they could reach the largest possible number of people in event of an emergency.

A steady blast of 3 minutes of more meant an attack was probable or radioactive fallout was expected. A rising-falling sound meant an attack was imminent.

By 1952 there were 13 sirens set up in the Sudbury area and a radar base was constructed at Falconbridge as
part of the NORAD Pinetree Line which would be able to detect a Soviet bomber attack.

As a school student we regularly practised hiding under our desks, thought to be the safest place to be if an attack wete yo occur. Families were encouraged to build bomb shelters.

In 1961 the government had replaced these first air raid sirens with better and more powerful models.

There was a lot of criticism especially since military technology had advanced so much that by the time people responded to the siren’s warning the missiles would have hit their target. By the late 1970s most of the 1700 sirens across Canada manufactured primarily by a Canadian company called CLM Industries had not sounded for a decade and dismantling began.

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These are classic pictures, but we still don't have the locations, do anybody knows them?

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CLM Omni-Directional near Warfield Community Hall.

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Do you see that Mobil Directo?
City unknown, they said this is the street: Yonge and yonge blvd.