Canadian Forces base

A Canadian Forces Base or CFB (French: Base des Forces canadiennes, BFC) is a military installation of the Canadian Armed Forces. For a facility to qualify as a Canadian Forces base, it must station one or more major units (e.g., army regiments, navy ships, air force wings).

Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay

Minor installations are named Canadian Forces Station or CFS (French: Station des Forces canadiennes, SFC). A Canadian Forces station could host a single minor unit (e.g., an early warning radar station). Many of these facilities are now decommissioned for administrative purposes and function as detachments of a larger Canadian Forces base nearby.

Current

Canadian Army

Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces Bases used by the Canadian Army are regiments of the Canadian Army.

Edmonton
Suffield
Wainwright
Shilo
Gagetown
Kingston
Borden
Petawawa
Montreal
Valcartier
Canadian Forces Bases (Army) locations.

Alberta:

Manitoba:

New Brunswick:

Ontario:

Quebec:

Royal Canadian Navy

Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces Bases used by the Royal Canadian Navy are individual commissioned ships of the RCN.

Esquimalt
Halifax
Canadian Forces Bases (Navy) locations.

British Columbia:

Nova Scotia:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces Bases used by the Royal Canadian Air Force are wings of the RCAF.

Cold Lake
Comox
Winnipeg
Gander
Goose Bay
Greenwood
Kingston
Borden
North Bay
Trenton
Bagotville
Moosejaw
Canadian Forces Bases (Air Force) locations.

Alberta:

British Columbia:

Manitoba:

Newfoundland and Labrador:

Nova Scotia:

Ontario:

Quebec:

Saskatchewan:

The RCAF supplies aircraft to Canadian Joint Operations Command, which frequently operate from a chain of forward operating locations (FOLs) at various civilian airfields across northern Canada, capable of supporting RCAF operations. CF-18 Hornets, CP-140 Auroras and various transport and search and rescue aircraft periodically deploy to these FOLs for short training exercises, Arctic sovereignty patrols, aid to the civil power, or search and rescue operations.

All services
NDHQ
CFS St. John's
CFNA HQ Yellowknife
CFS Alert
CFS Leitrim
CFLRS
CFNA HQ Whitehorse
Remaining Canadian Armed Forces locations.

Newfoundland and Labrador

Northwest Territories

  • CFNA HQ Yellowknife

Nunavut

Ontario

Quebec

Yukon

  • CFNA HQ Whitehorse

Closed

Defunct bases

Alberta:

British Columbia:

Manitoba:

New Brunswick:

Nova Scotia:

Ontario:

Prince Edward Island

Quebec:

  • CFB St. Hubert
  • CFB St. Jean (now home to the CF Leadership and Recruit School, a lodger unit of CFB Montreal)

Other:

  • CFB Baden-Soellingen, Germany
  • CFB Lahr, Germany

Defunct stations

Alberta:

British Columbia:

Manitoba:

New Brunswick:

Nova Scotia:

Newfoundland and Labrador:

Northwest Territories:

Nunavut:

Ontario:

Quebec:

Saskatchewan:

Yukon:

  • CFS Whitehorse

Other:

The Canadian Forces were reduced during the 1990s from a high of 90,000 personnel in the late 1980s to the present force levels. Coinciding with personnel and equipment reductions was the politically controversial decision to close a number of bases and stations which were obsolete or created duplication.

A small number of these "closed" facilities have actually continued operating as before; but, because of cost and administrative efficiency—or, in the case of radio and radar facilities, automation—, they have been absorbed into other nearby bases and therefore do not qualify for separate designations. For example, the CF Leadership and Recruit School at St. Jean, Quebec, is now a lodger unit of CFB Montreal, and the former CFS Masset is a detachment of CFS Leitrim. Other facilities are now used as training grounds for reserve/militia units.

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