Rae NWT and Y station

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Fort Rae NWT and Y Station
Northwest Territories
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Coordinates 62°49′33.5″N 116°03′23.4″W / 62.825972, -116.0565
In use 1931 - 1937

Opened in the summer of 1931 to provide weather information, contacts for boats and aircraft and communications for mining companies. It closed in August 1937 because the areas was unsatisfactory for radio operations and so the station was moved to Yellowknife.

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