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The Secrets of Radar Museum is now open Thursday to Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm.

Take a moment and imagine yourself as an 18 year old shopkeeper in 1941.

You've just enlisted, and expect to be shipped to the front lines of the war. As you board your ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, the military police pull you aside, and put you in solitary confinement for five days.

At the end of your five days, you find out that you were put in confinement because you are going to be reassigned to a top-secret division of the Air Force. The level of secrecy is so high, that the military authorities couldn't tell you why you were being detained! It won't be for another 50 years, until 1991, that you will be released to speak of what you did, and how it helped the war effort.

Those who served in radar came from every walk of life, including Allan Winters (second on right), who founded the CHUM broadcasting empire.

Radar operators worked in highly secret locations around the world.

Sounds too crazy to be true doesn't it? Men and women from across Canada had something similar to this happen to them during WWII. Their legacy helped to protect our soldiers at war, our people at home, and helped to create a technological legacy that serves as one of the foundations of day to day items that we now take for granted.

You've just joined the top-secret RADAR division.

This museum is dedicated to preserving the experiences, stories, and histories of the men and women who helped build, develop, operate, maintain and defend Canadian RADAR, here in Canada, and abroad.