North Vancouver Trails Closing for Explosives Search
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(nsnews) Though the area is mostly trees and trails now, it was an active military training site from the 1930s to the 1960s, where soldiers handled mortars and grenades, some of which failed to detonate.
It’s the third time the Department of National Defence has been back to the Blair Rifle Range lands as part of its mission to clear “legacy sites” of unexploded ordnance, or UXO.