In the summer of 1958, thrilling, high-octane formula car racing at death-defying speeds came to Huron County when the first races were held at the Green Acres Racing Circuit. Article content

Located 16 kilometres north of Goderich on the former RAF Air Navigation School’s triangular shaped runway, the Green Acres race track drew thousands of spectators who came to watch the excitement of high-speed auto racing on one of only two tracks of its kind in Ontario. Article content

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Reg McGee and Sons purchased the former 121-hectare air base in 1950 from the British Crown for farmland. Reg’s son, Alvin, recalls that it took three years to remove the base buildings still left over from the war. When the land was cleared of buildings, the old airstrip remai

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