16 Radio Unit - Eastern Passage, NS.

A Visit to Eastern Passage

Location: - It is suggested that anyone wishing to visit a World War II radar site within the Regional Municipality of Halifax should make use of a city map. With this in mind we begin by using the Shearwater Museum, situated on the old Shearwater naval base as our starting point. The airbase is well marked on a Halifax Municipality map.

From the Shearwater Museum turn left on Pleasant Street and drive seven kilometres to Hornes Road. Just before you reach Hornes Road, Pleasant Street becomes Cow Bay Road at the traffic light where Shore Road veers off to the right. Hornes Road veers off of Cow Bay Road at a 45 degree angle and it is very easy to miss the street sign as it's best viewed from the other direction. So if you miss the turn, like we did, make your turn around by exiting Cow Bay Road left as it's easier to get back in line again. Assuming you have not missed the sign to Hornes Road turn left and you will come to Scott Drive about 800 meters on the left. Scott is a dead end street approx 100 meters long. Drive to the very end and park.

General Detail: - Directly ahead of you there's a cement abutment maybe 90 centimetres square, forty centimetres high with a 10 centimetre white strip painter around the top. On the right side of this abutment is a pile of beach rocks all painted white with black letters saying that this is private property and no ATVs are allowed. A metal culvert is partially buried in the ground with a trickle of water flowing towards the ocean. I stepped over the culvert and entered the undergrowth. Immediately I saw that this was one of the areas that the hurricane hit in 2003 and several large trees were up-rooted and all the smaller alders etc were twisted up in knots. It was near impossible to make your way along what once was a path. Twenty five meters in and on my right I found another cement abutment, although this one was almost buried in the ground, and it was not quite as large as the first one I found. I looked around as best I could in this area and found nothing else that would indicate any buildings were ever on this spot. It appears that it has become a dumping ground for yard waste as I saw vast amounts of grass clippings and the like.