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

Thu Aug 25, 2022 1:57 pm

Let me know what locations are confirmed for Ontario, Canada as I can add them to my map under the former CD sirens layer.
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:44 pm

CanadianTbolt1003 wrote:
Thu Aug 25, 2022 1:57 pm
Let me know what locations are confirmed for Ontario, Canada as I can add them to my map under the former CD sirens layer.
https://www.google.ca/maps/d/u/0/viewer ... 619054&z=5
Sadly, I don't know. The one with the Mobil Directo is possibly in Toronto, but not sure.
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:05 pm

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Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:57 am
Do you see that Mobil Directo?
City unknown, they said this is the street: Yonge and yonge blvd.
OKAY, so this is in Toronto, because no other Yonge Blvd exist.
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Thu Aug 25, 2022 7:25 pm

Final update of the Mobil Directo!

A guy on Reddit confirmed it!

What he said: It’s in Toronto, ON, Canada. It’s on Yonge Blvd by Deloraine Ave. The siren has been removed
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Fri Aug 26, 2022 11:34 am

A little info about Lethbridge, AB's former CD Siren System:

Don’t forget to “duck and cover!”
Lethbridge’s Air Raid Siren/Civil Defence Siren
As with other communities across North America, Lethbridge was affected by the Cold War in the 1950s and the concern of attack. An air attack or a nuclear attack was something many people and governments believed might happen. The governments decided something needed to be done to prepare the citizens and one way was to have a siren that would alert the community when there was danger.
The 13 September 1951 Lethbridge Herald noted that “Four Alberta industrial centres – Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat – soon will receive air raid alarm siren systems from the federal government, Provincial Secretary C.E. Gerhart said today.”
It would take a while for the sirens to actually be delivered and installed.
The 4 November 1954 Lethbridge Herald commented on the initial test of the new sirens.
Sirens were installed behind City Hall, at the corner of 7th Ave S and Mayor Magrath Drive and the corner of 9th Ave N and 13th St (near Adams Park). The test showed that the new sirens were not very effective at their first test:
“Lethbridge’s civil defence organization sounded its air raid sirens Wednesday, but, if it really had been an air raid, most Lethbridge citizens would still be wondering what hit them.
The sirens sounded in the first test since they were installed and, while they provided an ominous enough warning to those in their vicinity, they could not be heard by residents any distance away.”
The city’s electrical department was planning to do tests to determine why the sirens weren’t heard by everyone.
Concerns about people’s ability to hear sirens was not just evident in Lethbridge. The 2 January 1959 Lethbridge Herald wrote about concerns from across Canada as to whether sirens or bells were better for air raid and emergency use. Lethbridge was firmly behind sirens.
And for those too young to remember, "duck and cover" was what you were supposed to do when you heard the siren.
We’ll have more on the Civil Defence activities in Lethbridge in another article.
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:52 pm

UPDATE!

Hamilton, Ontario Carter-Type CLM Siren.

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It's not from the Vanished series of books, but from the book, 1961 Hamilton, and shows one of the 22 air raid sirens erected around Hamilton to warn about any impending nuclear attack.
This one was located at Forest Avenue and Walnut Street.
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:05 pm

UPDATE! I found a Mobil Directo near Centennial Road Public School.

OG Tweet said: There used to be a Cold War era air raid siren tower located on the northeast corner of the property of my elementary school, Centennial Road Public School.
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:10 pm

Canadian Mobil Directo before it was mounted.

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A Mobil-Directo Air Raid Siren mounted on top of a school in 1954 - a model installed across Toronto in the 1950s. This one was removed in the early 1980s as the threat of nuclear war decreased [Advertisement image Library and Archives Canada]
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:12 pm

I'm pretty sure this is after removal, because the tweet said that, but it is not sure.
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Re: On the way to finding all Canadian sirens (Will Get Updates)

Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:14 pm

This is supposed to be an Edmonton air raid siren.

Original Tweet: Doing Vintage Edmonton for tomorrow April 1, 1952, and was intrigued by this photo and blurb of Air Raid sirens being installed over the city
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