For sale in our store is a vintage 1935 piece of electrical history, a polyphase Demand-Energy meter, by Sangamo Company Limited, made in Canada. Model ED30 Serial # 6740502. The meter has a black matte finish with silver metal accents. This meter was removed from one of the first NORAD Radar bases in Canada, Baldy Hughes, Prince George BC Canada.

This unique historical electrical meter is a collectible for 2 reasons, the NORAD Radar base history and the Cariboo Wagon Road history. The Baldy Hughes location has been in use since the 1800's and was used as a transfer station until the 1950's when developed as the NORAD Base for the US Air Force, followed by transfer to the RCAF before officially closing. Please see the  summary below of the history of the Baldy Hughes area.

The serial number dates to circa 1935 on the Sangamo historical serial number date chart for polyphase meters.

"This meter comes untested, being sold as a collectible. There is some light green paint, mostly on the upper back, it looks like someone tried to paint the surface behind it without removing the meter?"

The meter measures:
34 cm's (13 3/8 inches) height, not including the hook or wires
21.7 cm's (8 5/8 inches) width, at the widest point
13.8 cm's (5 1/2 inches) depth, not including any buttons
Weighs 7 kg 280 grams (16 lbs 1 oz) 

The Baldy Hughes site has been referred to as such locally since at least 1913 and comes from a rather colorful character, and early British Columbian pioneer by the name of Hughes. Hughes, who was often referred to by the name “Baldy”, ran a remount station for the stage line that traveled the old Cariboo Wagon Road (circa 1862). This remount station was situated on the current property. A nearby mountain, also bears his name.

Construction of Baldy Hughes Air Force Station began on the site in 1952 and the base officially opened in 1955. Operated by the United States Air Force, the site was part of the “Pinetree Line” series of radar stations located across the northern United States and southern Canada at about the 50th parallel north. Run by NORAD (after its creation), over half were manned by United States Air Force personnel with the balance operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The line was the first coordinated system for early detection of a Soviet bomber attack on North America, but the early 1950s radar technology quickly became outdated and the line was in full operation only for a short time.

The “Pinetree Line” was replaced by the “Mid-Canada Line” at the 55th parallel north, which was in turn replaced by the northernmost and most capable “DEW Line” at the 69th parallel.

Control of the station was transferred to the RCAF in the early 1960s. The base was re-named RCAF Station Baldy Hughes, then CFS Baldy Hughes. The station was officially closed in 1988.

Baldy Hughes was re-launched in 2007 as a therapeutic community and was founded by former MLA Lorne Mayencourt and the BC New Hope Recovery Society.

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