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

Minor installations are named Canadian Forces Station or CFS (French Station des forces canadiennes or SFC). A Canadian Forces Station could host a single minor unit (eg. 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

Army

Navy

Air force

Note: Primary lodger units at air force bases are wings.

CFB Bagotville (3 Wing), Quebec
CFB Borden (16 Wing), Ontario
CFB Comox (19 Wing), British Columbia
CFB Cold Lake (4 Wing), Alberta
CFB Dundurn/Det Dundurn (Detachment of 17 Wing), Saskatchewan
CFB Gander (9 Wing), Newfoundland
CFB Goose Bay (5 Wing), Labrador
CFB Greenwood (14 Wing), Nova Scotia
CFB Kingston (1 Wing), Ontario
CFB Moose Jaw (15 Wing), Saskatchewan
CFB North Bay (22 Wing), Ontario
CFB Shearwater (12 Wing), Nova Scotia
CFB Trenton (8 Wing), Ontario
CFB Winnipeg (17 Wing), Manitoba

Air Command and CF Northern Area also maintain a chain of Forward Operating Locations at various points across northern Canada, capable of supporting fighter operations. Elements of CF-18 squadrons periodically deploy to these FOLs for short training exercises or Arctic sovereignty patrols.

All services

Department of National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Ontario
CFS Alert, Nunavut
CFS Leitrim, Ontario
CRPTC (Connaught Range and Primary Training centre), Ottawa, Ontario
CFNA HQ Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
CFNA HQ Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Closed

Former active bases

CFB Calgary, Alberta
CFB Griesbach, Alberta
CFB Namao, Alberta
CFB Chilliwack, British Columbia (Redesignated as ASU Chilliwack)
CFB Winnipeg (Kapyong Barracks), Manitoba
CFB Chatham, New Brunswick
CFB Moncton, New Brunswick
CFB Cornwallis, Nova Scotia
CFB Clinton, Ontario
CFB Downsview, Ontario (Redesignated as ASU Toronto or Denison Armoury, Houses 32 CBG HQ and other 32 CBG units)
CFB London (Wolseley Barracks), Ontario
CFB Mountainview, Ontario
CFB Picton, Ontario
CFB Rockcliffe, Ontario
CFB Toronto, Ontario
CFB Uplands, Ontario
CFB Summerside, Prince Edward Island
CFB St. Hubert, Quebec
CFB St. Jean, Quebec
CFB Baden-Soellingen, Germany
CFB Lahr, Germany
CFB Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
CFB Rivers, Manitoba

Former active stations

CFS Beaverlodge, Alberta
CFS Penhold, Alberta
CFS Aldergrove, British Columbia
CFS Baldy Hughes, British Columbia
CFS Holberg, British Columbia
CFS Kamloops, British Columbia
CFS Ladner, British Columbia
CFS Masset, British Columbia
CFS Beausejour, Manitoba
CFS Churchill, Manitoba
CFS Flin Flon, Manitoba
CFS Gypsumville, Manitoba
CFS Coverdale, New Brunswick
CFS St. Margarets, New Brunswick
CFS Barrington, Nova Scotia
CFS Debert, Nova Scotia
CFS Mill Cove, Nova Scotia
CFS Newport Corner, Nova Scotia
CFS Shelburne, Nova Scotia
CFS Sydney, Nova Scotia
CFS Gander, Newfoundland
CFS Goose Bay, Labrador
CFS Frobisher Bay, Nunavut
CFS Armstrong, Ontario
CFS Carp, Ontario
CFS Cobourg, Ontario
CFS Falconbridge, Ontario
CFS Foymount, Ontario
CFS Gloucester, Ontario
CFS Lowther, Ontario
CFS Moosonee, Ontario
CFS Ramore, Ontario
CFS Sioux Lookout, Ontario
CFS Chibougamau, Quebec
CFS Moisie, Quebec
CFS Mont Apica, Quebec
CFS Lac St. Denis, Quebec
CFS Senneterre, Quebec
CFS Alsask, Saskatchewan
CFS Dana, Saskatchewan
CFS Yorkton, Saskatchewan
CFS Whitehorse, Yukon
CFS Bermuda, Bermuda at Daniel's Head, 1963-1993
Royal Canadian Naval Base, HMCS Somers Isles, Bermuda, 1944-1945

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; however for reasons 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 a separate designation. 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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 * [[CFS Alert]], [[Nunavut]]
 * [[CFS Leitrim]], Ontario
-* [[CRPTC (Connaught Ranges Primary Training centre)]], [[Ottawa, Ontario]]
+* [[CRPTC]] (Connaught Range and Primary Training centre), [[Ottawa, Ontario]]
 * [[CFNA HQ Whitehorse]], [[Yukon Territory]]
 * [[CFNA HQ Yellowknife]], [[Northwest Territories]]