Civil Defence Siren to be officially recognized as historic resource in ceremony
Sep 25, 2018 | 12:27 PM
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MEDICINE HAT, AB — The City of Medicine Hat will officially dedicate its most recent historic resource Tuesday afternoon.
A plaque will be unveiled to mark the official designation of the city’s last standing Civil Defence Siren as a Municipal Historic Resource. The ceremony begins at 4 p.m.
The siren rests on a work platform on a 15 metre high steel pole. It was one of five sirens installed in the city as a public warning system during the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961.
A release from the city says the siren is historically significant “as it reflects the fear of nuclear attack at the time of the Cold War after the Second World War.”
