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In think fog and the black oi night, ship recently sailed Grough the narrow gut-like entrance to Toronto harbor on Lake Ontario, slipped safely past other ships anchored in the harbor, and eased itself without a hitch into its assigned berth.

From the bridge and deck the captain and crew strained their eyes to pierce the armor oi gloom that surrounded them. They could see nothing. For anxious minutes they felt the steady. iot- ward motion oi the ship. But belted at the navigators desk in the chart room was a young man equipped with magic eyes. He it was who guided the -ship through the narrow channel. Ha could see what the others could not see. Clearly he could make out the other ships, lying stationary on the water, and without dli- ficulty he piloted his vessel past them. Then, presently, on the screen of his “magic eye" there appeared the silhouette of the wharves along the harbor front, and he soon made out the berth to which he was to guide the vessel.

The “magic eye" through which the young man saw all those things was a radar set produced in the government-built Re- search Enterprises Limited plant at Leaside, Ontario, and one of the thousands turned out for the Department oi Munitions and Supply in this plant since the early days of the war.

Radar has played its vital part in victory on all fronts. Now it is being applied to help man in his eternal war against the elements. '

said Sir Stafford Cripps, chairman of the British Radio Boa d, “contributed to the winning of the war more than any other single factor." And truly, Canada's great part in the

the training of radar crews a major share oi this contribution.

atlon has been the world's biggest producer oi certain types of radar sets, and so pioneered in the building oi these and the training of twperntors that at one time every radar officer in the larger Slllp5 of the Royal Navy Home Fleet was a Canadian: more than half the radar specialists in the Royal Air Force were Canadian, and many of the highest radar positions in the Royal Navy today are held by Canadians. In addition many American servicemen were trained in radar operations in a Canadian radar school.

Thousands of radar sets, built in Ottawa and Toronto, were supplied by Canada to the United States. The radar machines med in the defence of the Panama Canal zone were built in Can- ada at the request of the United States Signal Corps. When the Americans launched their great offensive in North Africa they were equipped with light, air transportable radar sets bearing the “Made in Canada" label. At Manila and Luzon the Ameri- cans watchc-d every move of the Japs through Canadian-built equipment. When London fought with its back to the wall, in- trlcate equipment made in Canada spotted Jerry and automatically directed the gunfire against him. Robot bombs on the southeast Qast oi England were brought clown with the help oi Canadian radar before they could reach their objecfive.

And now radar is going to work for peace. No longer will

precious cargoes wait for days outside fog-bound harbors.

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millions oi d insuranrz 11 = white elephant, the port of Churchill on Hudson's Bay, may yet be a great seaport, thanks to radar. Using a Canadian - built coastal defence radar set off Halifax as a guide to ships at sea, the Royal Canadian Navy has claimed it saved the Can- adian taxpayers about $6,000,- 000 in the first few weeks of operations. Radar kept scare: oi convoy ships oii the rocks outside the great Canadian port. Now, too, Canadian radar ia being turned to probe the un- knowns of weather. Three powerful stations located at Ottawa, Montreal and Clin- ton, Ontario, are being used 1n weather forecasting, and by looking into the screen of the Ottawa set, the operator . _ , _. . , may see “that's happening over t,“ " . _ . 4 . . I . an area. oi 96,000 square ‘ ' ' _ _ ' _ . mllas, providing, of course, The 9mm‘; you]: o! assembling the intricate rnochantsms of radar units W88 “"1”? ‘Mm 1' “m” hm‘ one of the Jobs assigned to Canadian plants, a job that Jﬂnlﬂﬂiled the “tmotst W1 eve- - - - . " ' ' ' ' sis cont nen s. storms as m away as m, . in precision and care. This g1rl worker u assembling RAW chas P0 miles can be seen on the screen. Recently, in Ottawa, a radar expert telephoned Kingston, nearly 100 miles to the west, and informed his listener that it would start raining in Kingston within a iew minutes. Before the tele- phone conversation had con- cluded, rain was falling out- aide the Kingston window. Farmers and fashion will‘ be other beneficiaries of peace- time radar. With radar peer- ing into the upper reaches of the sky, meteorologists can be provided with the most accurate weather information, hitherto withheld from man. With the help of radar, iarm- g . _ . - erahfi‘ 22s trail/rm Sivancéuitvdhor; . Canadian-made radar tent equipment; hke the aboyée was g2 the pang Elérgle; 551i £iltgceggoggﬁ<iillgllefagrii% ‘trim 1,’. 0o . _- ' ' 1 Own _ - p‘°“’°" °"'°'*”“"°“5' 3°" “ t ’ on the Afman war front 72 houlis ifterﬂnﬁlrllﬁiiﬁ léigldn like those ahovm in the picture at the top 0t this 9559- t these will be aided by radar ’_ TOYOTltO-It was used for genera aarm wo ' ' which knows exactly where ' ' - and when a storm will break. Mllady. before leaving for downtown. or the afternoon garden party, will simply tum on her radio and learn that it will rain at 11:45 exactly that day, and thus be inre- warned as tn what to-tvear ' ' ' _ . . . - D II weasion- The slightest; suggestion oi‘ radar was elimimnted in all wartime plwiwlrﬂlll}! of aircraft and ships. This photo of a Royal Al!‘ Force Wellington bomber in flight shows the radar equipment on fuselage and beneath the starboard wing.

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