Feb '25 (edited) • Understand.me
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I worked in Northern Ontario in the early 1960's with Canadian National Telecommunications (CNT) that was during the cold War days.
The United states had a lot of military bases in Canada at that time. I looked after communications on two of those bases.
Those two locations were the American Air Force Bases at Pagwa and Lowther.
The only way to get to Pagwa River was by a branch line train or in the winter a snow road which the American Forces built and maintained.
The first time I made the trip I was with another employee Wally Winnick the fellow I was taking over from.
We didn’t visit the base that time he took me in to show me the route.
We didn’t have any trouble but the next time I went in over the snow road I was alone.
There was trouble with communications on the American Forces Base. This trip was made in the middle of the winter with sub zero temperatures minus forty fahrenheit.
I had to travel over twenty miles of snow road.
I didn’t meet a single vehicle.
I had to sign in at a security gate when I arrived at the base they asked if I was security cleared.
I told them that I was.
The guards checked their records and said they couldn’t find anything so they had to contact Ottawa for a copy of my security clearance.
They let me in but they assigned an armed guard with a Lee Enfield .303 rifle to guard me until my security clearance came through from Ottawa.
This guard followed me everywhere he was never more the ten feet away from me.
He followed me all day while I was working.
He followed me to the washroom, to the mess hall even in the evening when I went to the NCO Club in the evening.
When I went back to the bunk house he stayed outside my room door.
I woke in the middle of the night to go to the washroom he was outside the door and followed me to the washroom and stood outside the door.
I stayed in the bunk house and there was a public washroom.
The facilities were not very sophisticated at that time.
He stuck to me like glue until the next day around lunch when they got confirmation of my security clearance from Ottawa.
While I was in there it was so cold that I had to start my vehicle every three or four hours otherwise it would not start.
I had no problems for the next couple of days.
After I did my work I went back over the snow road to the highway and back to Hearst without a problem.
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