Monday, July 23, 2018

Former Canadian military properties.

From: My father George Shaw's magazine "Canadian Armed Forces Review" May/June 1969.
Several military properties were transferred to a federal Crown corporation that privatizes federal land and buildings:
ONTARIO
CFB Rockcliffe Ottawa - Canada Lands Company.
CFB Downsview, Toronto - Canada Lands Company. The original Denison Armoury was demolished by Canada Lands Company.
CFB London - Wolseley Barracks - Canada Lands Company


BRITISH COLUMBIA
CFB Chilliwack - Canada Lands Company
RCAF Station Jericho Beach, Vancouver - Canada Lands Company

MANITOBA
CFB Winnipeg - Kapyong Barracks - Canada Lands Company

ALBERTA
CFB Calgary - Currie Barracks - Canada Lands Company
CFB Edmonton - Griesbach Barracks - Canada Lands Company

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
CFS Summerside - Sold for $1 dollar (One Dollar) to a private, profit making company, see the Stevie Cameron book "On the Take".

NOVA SCOTIA
CFB Shearwater - Canada Lands Company. The federal government then paid the Crown corporation so that CFB Shearwater could be returned to the federal inventory.

Shannon Park in Dartmouth - Canada Lands Company
Naval Radio Station Albro Lake, Dartmouth - PMQ's were transferred to Canada Lands Company.

NEWFOUNDLAND
CFS St. John's, Pleasantville - Canada Lands Company

QUEBEC
CFB Saint-Hubert - Canada Lands Company

CFB Chibougamau - located on top of the Chibouagamau Gold Fields. Sold during the Mulroney era via a Federal Order-in-Council, to a gold mining company.



My Dad at the American Thule Air Force Base in Greenland, 1968. The base is 1,207 km north of the Arctic Circle,and 1,524 km from the North Pole.
Thule Air Force Base, Greenland.

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