Orenda's Empty Lot

Both sides are gated and have signs claiming there are cameras. Likely a bluff. I also noted an elderly man out for a walk on the CIL side so take that as an indication of how concerned to be.

Everything is very grown in and there is a lot to trip on or to cut yourself on, and the brush and grass obscures much of it. Also a lot of plants with spikes.

The combined locations of the CIL plant, once a place where chemicals for munitions were manufactured, and the site of Avro's Orenda Engines subsidiary's wind tunnels.

The Orenda test facility opened just after the Second World War and was in operation until 1959 when the Avro Arrow, which was to use Orenda's Iroquois engine, was cancelled.

It is an interesting little bit of Canadian history connected to the Avro Arrow, an aircraft with much national mythmaking surrounding it.

If it is of interest, I'd recommend Russell Isinger's paper "The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow programme : decisions and determinants" for a thorough dive into the history of the aircraft and a sober academic assessment of its real abilities rather than the legendary status Canadian pop history assigns it.