Echoes from the radar line

The successor to the DEW Line, North Warning System facilities in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada. — Renaud Philippe/The New York Times

AT the crossroads of Golf Street and Armed Forces Street in Chibougamau, a remote city in northern Quebec, a rusting banana-shaped metal relic stands on a pedestal, silently facing the open sky.

Blackened with time, the Cold War-era radar now rests in stillness – or perhaps repose.