Every town has its reason for being where it is but not every town gets to stay there. Foymount, Ontario became almost a ghost town after the Canadian Forces Station closed down in 1974. This station was established to detect nuclear weapons during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Radar installations were the main reason for the town existing and at over 500m above sea level, it was ideally situated for radar. To this day, among towns 500m or more above sea level, it remains the highest populated in Ontario.
Geography of Foymont
The town is fairly isolated, but surprisingly still kicking, even with the school closed down and the base closed. The building footprints on the map are fairly accurate of what is there, not much seems to have changed in a long time. The exception being, of course, the buildings that were the property of the military. Since they were military property, they seemed to have efficiently boarded up the buildings and torn down the radar stations.The barracks in the photo below have boarded up doors and windows on the main floor and each balcony door on the second floor has a oven pushed up in front of it so that no one can enter the buildings.
The height of the town that originally made it useful for radar made it useful for things like CBC to have a radio repeater up on the hill where the radar used to be. The following are two photos of the highest point of the town, one of the towers and remnants of a building.
