This page provides access to the detailed history of the Mt. Kobau Project or Queen Elizabeth II Observatory.

The Queen Elizabeth II Observatory, which was never built, was a project to create one of the pre-eminent observatories in Canada, that would eclipse others in Canada and rank as one of the largest telescopes on the planet at the time of its construction. The plan was to build this on the summit where the Communications tower stands today.

Click on this highlighted document link Kobau History to view an excerpt of 30 pages from the Natural Resources Canada publication "The Heavens Above and the Earth Beneath, A History of the Dominion Observatories: Part 2, 1946 to 1970:"

Click on the following links to go to the freely downloadable two part Natural Resources Canada website publications,
PART 1 (approx. 32 mbytes)- "The Heavens Above and the Earth Beneath, A History of the Dominion Observatories: Part 1, To 1946:"
and/or
PART 2 (approx. 30 mbytes)-"The Heavens Above and the Earth Beneath, A History of the Dominion Observatories: Part 2, 1946 to 1970:"