Canadian Forces Station Mont Apica (CFS Mont Apica) was a radar station of the

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, located in

Mont-Apica, Quebec Mont-Apica is an unorganized territory in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the regional county municipality of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est. It had a population of 0 in the Canada 2011 Census, and covered a land area of 12.68 km2, entirel ...

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, during the

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. The station opened as RCAF Station Mont Apica in 1952 and had a staff of some 500 persons at its peak. 2452 AC&W squadron, a reserve unit from Quebec City, trained at Mont Apica until the squadron was disbanded in 1960. Political and technological changes made the station redundant and it closed in 1990. No. 12 Radar Squadron, Mont Apica's lodger unit, was transferred to

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. There was also a

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used by the military and later by the

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. After the station's closure, it was transferred to the Lac Castor site of the Canadian weather radar network.

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Mont Apica 1952 establishments in Quebec 1990 disestablishments in Quebec {{Quebec-stub fr:Mont-Apica