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Fred Burwell
Fred Burwell joined the Department of Transport in 1937 as a radio operator. He was stationed in Lethbridge, moved to Fort William and then Sioux Lookout in Ontario, then Edmonton, Alberta in 1943. He installed radio equipment in most sites on the Northwest Staging Route in 1942. He helped commission Aishihik and Snag Radio Ranges in 1943 and closed down the Pan American Station at Burwash Landing. His son, Fred Burwell Jr. joined the Department of Transport (DOT) after he graduated as an electronics technician in 1951. He helped to open a new Radio Range station at Burwash in 1966 when it replaced the stations at Aishihik and Snag.1)
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Tom Robinson, “The Burwell Story: Like Father - Like Son” in Bob Hesketh ed., Three Northern Wartime Projects. Occasional Publication Series No. 38. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton & District Historical Society, 1996: 42.
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