Position: 60:01N-111:53W. Opened in 1924 to provide communications for the administrative headquarters of the Northwest Territories and also to provide weather information and aircraft contacts. It was handed over to the Department of Transport on 31 October 1958.

(1MB) Article by WOII R.T. O'Brien on the origins of Station VEG, Ft. Smith.
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