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Unix Fortune has a quote from "The Realist" that has intrigued the bored subset of hackers that actually read it as it flies by:Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single word.
It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow. Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the destruction of this cairn, that wouldn't alert the press and embarrass both Parliament and Party.
It stands today, a monument to human spirit. If life exists on other planets, this may be the first message received from us. -- The Realist, November, 1964.
Now that we have Google Maps there might be a way to verify the quote. To that end, I've been looking at maps of the era and locating the communities using google maps. Here are some of them:
There were a LOT of people up there in the 1950s building radar sites during the cold war, then flying around refueling SAC planes. Some of these guys have some hardcore history sites which may lead to the weather station in question.
Oliver, Montreal appartment