My wife and I were just talking the other day about how we would absolutely love to find a house with an old Civil Defense fallout shelter in the back yard that isn't falling in on itself. I am into CB radio, and am trying to get my technicians class Ham license. I'd use it as my radio room.
Just found this video. During the Cuban Missile Crisis my family spent its nights sleeping in a basement fallout shelter. Dad was assigned to Spangdahlem Air Force Baase in West Germany as an Air Force sergeant. We slept in the fallout shelters but spent our days in our base housing apartment. An alert at night would mean slow response, so if we were already hunkered down we'd be sheltered--as sheltered as we could be. We had to all wear our dog tags and our one suitcase per person was under our cots down in the basement, just in case the NEO (Non-combatant Evacuation Operation) was executed. I was all of five, and this experience motivated me to pay attention to such things as fallout shelters.
Hello Gilles. I enjoyed your pair of UA-cam videos on the Canadian Nuclear Detonation and Fallout Reporting System (NDFRS). They helped answer a question that had long puzzled me. I had come across one of these bunkers at the Lake Traverse CNR Station deep within the boundaries of Algonquin Park in Ontario over 45 years ago. I honestly thought perhaps it was just an old root cellar that had been built by the station's longtime CNR agent. It wouldn't be until 30 years after I first laid eyes on it that I discovered it really was a Cold War fallout shelter, built circa 1961. The revelation came in a 2009 self-published book by the station master's wife, although the memoir did not explain exactly why the bunker needed to be built in such a remote location. Your video, however, provides the key - both the Canadian National & Canadian Pacific Railways participated in the NDFRS, so a bunker in the middle of nowhere at Lake Traverse now makes sense. I would like to send you more information for your NRFRS research but I can't include images in a UA-cam comment. Is there any way to email you directly with the details? Cheers, Bob
That was awesome! Thanks for sharing your research and experiences on this! We camped through Sask and Manitoba last summer, and Gimli was one of our stops. We met a man at the boat launch area who, long story short, was more than just a bit odd. He told us of a bunker in the forest that we should go in and explore, and though it was tempting, we passed on that. I think we thought we might get locked in and held as prisoners or something. He was really quite weird, so we had no confidence that this would go well. Now I think we missed a chance to see something historic! At the time, it seemed creepy. Oh well.
Impressive research and legwork. The shelter below my building also has a sort of a second life, last time I was inside it was full of pickle jars, car wheels/tires and god know what else. Is still somehow functional, the big double doors still in place, and the air filtration system is still working, though only manual now. We always thought of it as a useless thing (why did they build all this?) except maybe in the 80s with the Chernobyl and all. Oh yes, and now unfortunately with the craziness happening near us. Also, you have a real talent for presentation, interesting facts mixed with a bit of a humor, I haven't skipped a bit.
hi Gilles, do you have plans to do a vid about the broken arrow incident near Riviere du Loup in Quebec in the early 50s?; very recently, I asked several people from the area and they knew nothing about the incident - young or older. there's quite a bit of info on it scattered about on the WEB, including Journal de Montreal.
Theres a bunker on cornwall center road in cornwall ont the address is 520 cornwall center is kinda far back behind the fruit stand in between the church and field. But idk if its really a bunker or a large cold cellar
My wife and I were just talking the other day about how we would absolutely love to find a house with an old Civil Defense fallout shelter in the back yard that isn't falling in on itself. I am into CB radio, and am trying to get my technicians class Ham license. I'd use it as my radio room.
Just found this video. During the Cuban Missile Crisis my family spent its nights sleeping in a basement fallout shelter. Dad was assigned to Spangdahlem Air Force Baase in West Germany as an Air Force sergeant. We slept in the fallout shelters but spent our days in our base housing apartment. An alert at night would mean slow response, so if we were already hunkered down we'd be sheltered--as sheltered as we could be. We had to all wear our dog tags and our one suitcase per person was under our cots down in the basement, just in case the NEO (Non-combatant Evacuation Operation) was executed. I was all of five, and this experience motivated me to pay attention to such things as fallout shelters.
Hello Gilles.
I enjoyed your pair of UA-cam videos on the Canadian Nuclear Detonation and Fallout Reporting System (NDFRS). They helped answer a question that had long puzzled me.
I had come across one of these bunkers at the Lake Traverse CNR Station deep within the boundaries of Algonquin Park in Ontario over 45 years ago. I honestly thought perhaps it was just an old root cellar that had been built by the station's longtime CNR agent. It wouldn't be until 30 years after I first laid eyes on it that I discovered it really was a Cold War fallout shelter, built circa 1961. The revelation came in a 2009 self-published book by the station master's wife, although the memoir did not explain exactly why the bunker needed to be built in such a remote location.
Your video, however, provides the key - both the Canadian National & Canadian Pacific Railways participated in the NDFRS, so a bunker in the middle of nowhere at Lake Traverse now makes sense.
I would like to send you more information for your NRFRS research but I can't include images in a UA-cam comment. Is there any way to email you directly with the details?
Cheers,
Bob
That was awesome! Thanks for sharing your research and experiences on this! We camped through Sask and Manitoba last summer, and Gimli was one of our stops. We met a man at the boat launch area who, long story short, was more than just a bit odd. He told us of a bunker in the forest that we should go in and explore, and though it was tempting, we passed on that. I think we thought we might get locked in and held as prisoners or something. He was really quite weird, so we had no confidence that this would go well. Now I think we missed a chance to see something historic! At the time, it seemed creepy. Oh well.
Impressive research and legwork.
The shelter below my building also has a sort of a second life, last time I was inside it was full of pickle jars, car wheels/tires and god know what else. Is still somehow functional, the big double doors still in place, and the air filtration system is still working, though only manual now. We always thought of it as a useless thing (why did they build all this?) except maybe in the 80s with the Chernobyl and all. Oh yes, and now unfortunately with the craziness happening near us.
Also, you have a real talent for presentation, interesting facts mixed with a bit of a humor, I haven't skipped a bit.
Gotta do a video on the sask ones. I've started digging a bit about them
hi Gilles, do you have plans to do a vid about the broken arrow incident near Riviere du Loup in Quebec in the early 50s?; very recently, I asked several people from the area and they knew nothing about the incident - young or older. there's quite a bit of info on it scattered about on the WEB, including Journal de Montreal.
"11 Steps to Survival." I still have a copy. Beware of the red stuff!!
Interesting.
Out of curiosity how many have you found now that is 2023 and have you found any in Saskatchewan
Theres a bunker on cornwall center road in cornwall ont the address is 520 cornwall center is kinda far back behind the fruit stand in between the church and field. But idk if its really a bunker or a large cold cellar
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