CFB Clinton

UK, Canadian, US and other servicemen were trained at Clinton, with practical flights being carried out at nearby RCAF Station Centralia.

Clinton remained the primary radar training site for Canadian Forces personnel through the Cold War era, with continued expansions throughout the 1950s and 60s.

Following the closure of the base, the buildings were sold to real estate developer John Van Gastel and now make up the small village of Vanastra, Ontario.

The importance of the work done at RAF Clinton was that not only the radar was created and improved upon, but the common microwave stems directly from that research.

On June 9, 1959, 12-year-old Lynne Harper, who lived in the married quarters on the base disappeared after accepting a ride on the bicycle of 14-year-old classmate Steven Truscott.

Truscott was arrested, denied many of the civilized considerations not yet enshrined in law as 'rights' (such as full disclosure of the evidence against him) and convicted of Capital Murder.

In addition Truscott never exhibited any pathological behaviors that would be used by criminal profilers to include him in a pool of suspects.