RCAF RADAR 1941 - 1945

A Visit to Plymouth, Nova Scotia

Location: - Drive west on Highway #103 towards Yarmouth. This highway ends at the corner of highway #3. Turn left on #3 highway and follow this road east until you reach highway #334. Highway #334 is 3.5 kilometres from the corner of highway #103 and #3. You cannot miss #334 as there are several road markers on your right with the names of the communities along this highway, the most notable one being Wedgeport, home of the worlds tuna fishing derby. Exactly 2.4 kilometres along this road (#334) on your left and 200 meters through a mosquitoe infested swamp is the remains of the Plymouth Radar site!!

General Detail: - I spent the better part of two hours going from house to house asking the villagers where the remains of the radar site was located. At the very last place I called before I was about to give up, lives Mr and Mrs Gordon Jenkins both over 70 years old and super people. She told me where to find the site and he about blew me away when he said, give me your e-mail address and I'll see what I can find out for you.

The footings of a building 35x18 feet remain to this day. On the east side is the footing of a building five feet square attached to the main building that must have contained a furnace as the remains of a brick chimney was in evidence. The road in and the spot where the building once sat were the only dry spots in the entire area. I wallered through a swamp and found the remains of two cement pillars that supported the antenna to the south of the building. I walked back to the building (through the swamp - with very wet feet by this time) counting my steps the best I could as I was fighting my way through underbrush and scrub trees and with water over my hiking boots. I then attempted to find other pillars by walking the same number of steps in a westerly, easterly and northernly direction. I found nothing that resembled the other two I had found. The land, if it can be called land, is for sale by a local Realtor. It is presently owned by a Mr Kenneth Pottier.


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  1. Road sign to the radar site - exactly 2.4 kms that-a-way - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  2. Iron stake just off the trail. Possibly to discourage trespassers on private land - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  3. This is what greets you as the rail begins - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  4. The trail continues - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  5. And then the trail almost disappears - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  6. The first indication of a structure - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  7. This is an example what the remains of barbed wire around the compound - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  8. As the trail ends, this small clearing comes into view - 14 October 2004.
    You can barely see the remains of cement footings in the background.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  9. Remains of a cement foundation - 14 October 2004.
    Facing south with the small clearing to my right.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  10. Remains of a cement foundation - 14 October 2004.
    Facing south towards where the radar tower might have been located.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  11. Remains of another building foundation - 14 October 2004.
    Note the clearing straight ahead. The trail enters from the left (in this picture).
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  12. We suspect that the tower was in the opening of this floor - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  13. Remains of building foundations - 14 October 2004.
    Taken facing south east. As I looked at this area it looked as though a chimney was built there. Note a few bricks scattered about.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  14. Remains of building foundations - 14 October 2004.
    Taken looking south west with clearing to my back.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  15. Remains of an old coal burning furnace - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  16. Remains of cement posts for antennas - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  17. Remains of cement posts for antennas - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  18. An old bottle dating from World War II - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.

  19. A piece of flashing from the remains of one of the buildings - 14 October 2004.
    Courtesy Roger Cyr.


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