The Dunrobin Detachment was a military-operated radio communications receiver station linked by land line to

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located on the corner of Dunrobin Road and Vance's Side Road NW of

Dunrobin, Ontario Dunrobin is a community in West Carleton-March Ward in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located about 35 kilometres northwest of Downtown Ottawa. Dunrobin lies within a valley, nestled between the Ottawa River and the Carp escarpment, and ...

. A second antenna receiver site was located further West near Almonte, Ontario; the Almonte Detachment. The detachment was unmanned and the location primarily used as a remote antenna farm. After the end of the

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was decommissioned and the antenna site was no longer needed.

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Military radio systems 1962 establishments in Ontario 1994 disestablishments in Ontario Dunrobin {{canada-mil-stub