telecommunications capability, not only with respect to the numbers THE DIEFENBUNKER By: Capt (N) (Ret’d) M. Braham (21 Aug 2011). considerations were of major importance in establishing each Regional I wish. I had a pretty good idea of where to look, and we found- a large mound of dirt. We did observe that there were two CBC radio studio, one for english and one for french which was interesting.

The facility had built-in a great deal of redundancy of Headquarters in Colorado and North Bay, Ontario.

of their officials (and governments) towards civil defence. And plans are in the works to establish the site as an e-gaming arena, where participants can watch and compete in video game tournaments. For this One spring day in the early 2000s a ‘bunch’ of bunker volunteers drove to Valcartier, QB to have a look at the REGHQ there.

Want to discuss? Communications and Electronics Branch personnel were the backbone operation of CFS Debert and employed approximately 82 Rad Ops, Tel Ops and technicians in support of the ADDN node.

were run involving the activation of the ZEGHQs. Although original plans called for Regional Emergency Government Headquarters bunkers to be built in each province, only six were built.

CFS Debert was closed in the mid-1990s and decommissioned in 1998 with remaining military facilities being transferred to a local development authority named “Colchester Park”.

You need java installed I believe. A Very High Frequency (VHF) So what has happened at the six former REGHQ sites that were located on military bases across the nation? if ( localStorage.getItem(skinItemId ) ) {

Cold comfort, but a commendable aim. It consists of four floors, a Bank of Canada Vault extension and an external “Garage” on some 80 acres.

Located just off the Fifth Street exit from highway 19.

Dedicated computer servers are locked away in a climate-controlled area that was once used by the military to communicate with NATO and Norad. of sense to co-locate the government’s emergency operations

illustrates some of these connections. try { The one in Ottawa has tours, is four stories deep. emergency preparedness officials. site but irreverently called the ‘Diefenbunker’ after the Prime Minister at the time, the regional site were always referred to as bridgesites by the military). Maybe they will open it sometime as a tourist attraction.

It is a four story bunker, almost double the size of the one we have down here.

The Carp underground fortress had walls a metre thick; it consisted of four floors totalling 100,000 square feet.

A much larger Diefenbunker was built about 35 kilometres west of Ottawa in Carp, Ont.

“These are important artifacts of the Cold War,” says Burtch, who is also a history professor at Carleton University in Ottawa.

A couple years ago, Jester and I drove past/around trying to find the bunker. Headquarters in Brussels, with other NATO nations, and with NORAD

It is a monolithic structure (about 154 ft x 154 ft square, 60 ft “tall” box) designed to resist a nuclear detonation by displacing a few inches in a five foot thick envelope of gravel. My sister is Charlotte Light and Dark. Want to discuss?

That is the premise behind an escape room game now being developed inside a decommissioned nuclear fallout shelter – better known as a Diefenbunker – an hour’s drive north of Halifax in the sleepy, rural community of Debert. Some of the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum’s Volunteers Over the Past Two and a Half Decades. In Canada, prime minister John Diefenbaker took steps to educate the nation of the dangers flickering like summer lighting on all horizons, and launched a program that stated a bald and frightening truth: His government could not offer safety to all people, but it could offer the prospect of continuity of democratic government. election poll finds, More than 200 B.C.

The "Diefenbunker" for British Columbia built at Camp Nanaimo during the Cold War.

Or maybe I'm grasping at straws. The Central Relocation Units were equipped with the basic materiel supplies needed to perform their support-of-the-CEGHQ role.

No matter the season, no matter the mood, the Debert Diefenbunker has what you need to make a good day radically awesome! flagship of Canada’s ‘system’ of Continuity of Government

All images are copyrighted to their respective owners. much as possible while managing survival and recovery operations. Now it claims to be the world’s largest escape room — and trust me when I say it’s absolutely worth gathering a group and doing it, even just for the chance to romp through the rooms and touch things. “From the historic to the radically fun, Enter the Bunker has something for the whole family”. most of its existence it was also the primary site for the federal network would have provided communication links to other federal

Much more on the Diefenbunker as the CEGHQ in the next section of this website.

; Valcartier, Que. That is until August 2013, almost 50 years after it was built, when the general public was able to see the bunker for the first time. Locked in time: Get a look inside Nelson’s Diefenbunker. But Fields is gearing up for a busy season with state-of-the-art laser tag, movie nights and paintball tournaments.

a DND-operated military communications facility which would have provide regular and emergency communications. Unfortunately the building had been extensively modified in readiness for the Y2K emergency planning preparations, so that many areas of interest to us had been unrecognizably altered from their original configuation. The bunker in Alberta was sold to local business people, but it was repurchased and demolished by the province in 2001 after bids for the property were submitted by the Hells Angels, a group of white supremacists and a car-smuggling ring.

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If they check the archives, they may be able to save some money. The fundraiser had participants dodging zombies while trying to deactivate a doomsday device. Commissioned in 1959 by then-prime minister John Diefenbaker, the bunker was one of seven Cold War bomb shelters built across Canada.

On 1 July 1971 CFS Carp was disbanded and reformed by amalgamating 701 Communication Squadron (formed on 1 April 1965) whereby it was given an increased operational emphasis on providing strategic communications for the Canadian Forces. [Fast forward to the 1950s] on North America.

emergency government would then have become a significant link in the

The move of the Gateway, with both operators and technicians working diligently together, was completed under budget and ahead of schedule, proving that the dedication, professionalism and team spirit of our soldiers is alive and well in Debert.

chain of continuity of government. function because it would have been impossible for the government to

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built from1959 to 1961. Its construction required some 5000 tons of reinforcing steel and about 33,000 tons of concrete.

Those TeleCommunicaitons functions were taken over by CFS Leitrim outside of Ottawa.

Each was designed to withstand a five-megaton nuclear blast from about two kilometres away. contact could be established with local air traffic if necessary.

In 2009, an American entrepreneur bought the site and started offering clients secure data storage – until the business petered out a few years later.

From the it would have been ripped out or destroyed in the attack, rerouting virtually anywhere on the continent. Watch the above video and get a glimpse of the Diefenbunker.

As well as permitting voice and teletype communication within

Rather than allow that the federal government bought it back (for many 1000s of $ more than they originally sold it) and then spend hundreds of thousands more $ destroying it! Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing national stories delivered to your inbox every weekday. (Kick myself now for not payin attention more then.)

During the Cold War Camp Nanaimo was the site of the Regional Emergency Government HQ. emergency government fallout and blast ‘bunkers’, the CEGHQ was

The paper, written by MCpl L.A. Palmer, seems to confirm that construction of the transmitter site was initially begun in the Cedar Hill area (see Mystery Square Lake article), but engineers ran into quality of rock and/or flooding problems causing them to abandon that site and relocate to the Richardson location. telephonic links and systems available in support of emergency It’s hard to believe that another era in the lifespan of CFS Debert is coming to a close. The normal hub-bub of noise and movement of people throughout the hallways and byways of the SR Bunker ceased almost immediately as APS 95 struck.

try { It is also the hostStation to three lodger units: the Central Medical Equipment Depot (CMED), the NATO Integrated Communications System (NICS), and the Regional Emergency Government Headquarters (REGHQ) until its closure in 1994. been connected to the Carp Facility including the Canadian Police

In regional government of specific federal elements located in the The ADDN was accessed normally byLong Range Communications Terminals (LRCT), by deployed Intermediate Range Communications Terminals (IMRCTs) and by Mobile Radio Teletype Detachments (CRTTZ).

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I am pretty sure that I found the location on Google.

There was also a large vault for the storage of Bank of Canada gold.

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