CFS Ramore

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Opened in 1953 as Pagwa Air Force Station of the United States Air Force, with the radar functions being run by No. 913 Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron.
Control of the station was transferred to the RCAF on 29 May 1963 and the station was re-named RCAF Station Pagwa. This was part of an arrangement with the United States that came as a result of the cancellation of the Avro Arrow that saw Canada lease 66 F-101 Voodoo fighters and take over operation of 12 Pinetree radar bases.
Also in 1963, Pagwa was upgraded to the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system and the station became a long-range radar site.
The radar squadron was disbanded on 1 October 1966. The last RCAF personnel left the station on 15 December 1966 bringing to a close one of the shortest, in time, RCAF manned sites in the NORAD system.
Some of the station’s buildings remain today.