Canadian Forces Station Val d'Or (CFS Val d'Or) was a Canadian Forces Station in Val-d'Or, Quebec. A Canadian Forces Base or CFB ( French Base des forces canadiennes or BFC) refers to a military installation of the Canadian Forces Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk
RCAF Station Val d'Or
The Royal Canadian Air Force established RCAF Station Val d'Or in 1954 as a fighter-interceptor base intended to protect Montreal and the St. Lawrence River valley and Great Lakes basin against Soviet bomber aircraft. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Saint Lawrence River (in French: fleuve Saint-Laurent; Kahnawáˀkye in Tuscarora, Kaniatarowanenneh meaning big waterway The Laurentian Great Lakes are a chain of freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada–United States border. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The airfield was topped with asphalt by the mid-1950s as RCAF Station Val d'Or became a key component in NORAD.
During the early 1960s, RCAF Station Val-d'Or was selected as the site for one of the Regional Emergency Government Headquarters (REGHQs), commonly known as a "Diefenbunker". The seven Emergency Government Headquarters (commonly referred to as Diefenbunkers) are Nuclear fallout shelters that were built across Canada at the height
By 1964, the flying mission at RCAF Station Val-d'Or had changed to see all aircraft based at RCAF Station North Bay and RCAF Station Bagotville but were deployed to the base in rotations; in essence, RCAF Station Val-d'Or was now a forward operating base. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Canadian Forces Base North Bay, also CFB North Bay, is a Canadian Forces Base located in North Bay Ontario. Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, commonly referred to as CFB Bagotville, is a Canadian Forces Base located west of Bagotville in the city of Saguenay
During the 1960s, RCAF Station Val-d'Or became home to numerous airborne nuclear weapons as RCAF CF-101 Voodoo interceptors were fitted with the AIR-2 Genie. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. The CF-101 Voodoo was an all-weather Interceptor aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Forces between 1961 and 1984 The Douglas Genie ( MB-1 Ding-Dong, AIR-2) was an unguided Air-to-air rocket with a 1
The rise of the FLQ terrorist group during this period saw the Canadian military devise strategies to avoid permitting nuclear ordnance primarily stored at RCAF Station Val-d'Or from being seized by the group's members. The Front de libération du Québec ( Québec Liberation Front commonly known as the FLQ, and sometimes referred to as Front de libération Québécois [1]
CFS Val-d'Or
The 1968 merger of the Canadian Army, RCAF and Royal Canadian Navy saw RCAF Station Val-d'Or renamed to Canadian Forces Station Val-d'Or or CFS Val-d'Or; the term station was used since Val-d'Or did not host any major units such as a wing or squadrons. Land Force Command ( LFC) is responsible for army operations within the Canadian Forces. For the history of Canada's naval forces after 1968 see Canadian Forces Maritime Command The Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN) was the
CFS Val-d'Or saw its mission gradually decrease during the 1970s and it was closed.
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