CHAIN OF AERODROMES
WESTERN CANADA
JOINT DEFENCE PROJECT
(Received February 14, 12.30 p.m.)
OTTAWA, February 13
The Air Minister, Mr. Power, announced a 20,000,000-dollar air programme for home defence involving the construction of a chain of aerodromes in British Columbia and Alberta linked with Alaska as protection against an invasion through Alaska. This chain would be built as a joint defence project with the United States. Other aerodromes which would be built in eastern Canada would be exclusively Canadian.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 7
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79CHAIN OF AERODROMES Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 7
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