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CFB Esquimalt

Coordinates: 48°25′52″N 123°25′54″W / 48.43111°N 123.43167°W / 48.43111; -123.43167
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CFB Esquimalt – former Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard
Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada
Canadian naval ships docked at CFB Esquimalt
Coordinates48°25′52″N 123°25′54″W / 48.43111°N 123.43167°W / 48.43111; -123.43167
TypeNaval base
Site information
Controlled byCanadian Forces
Site history
Built1860 to present
In use1842–present
Battles/wars
Official nameEsquimalt Naval Sites National Historic Site of Canada
Designated1995
Garrison information
GarrisonRoyal Canadian Navy

Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt (CFB Esquimalt) is Canada's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters.[1] Actually, 4411 military and 2762 civils worked on the CFB Esquimalt.[2]

The base is located on Vancouver Island.

Geography

The base occupies approximately 41 square kilometres (10,000 acres) at the southern tip of Vancouver Island on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the municipality of Esquimalt, British Columbia, adjacent to the western limit of the provincial capital, Victoria.[3]

Facilities

CFB Esquimalt comprises facilities that include Naden (formerly HMCS Naden),[4] Her Majesty's Canadian (HMC)[5] Dockyard Esquimalt, Fleet Maintenance Facility – Cape Breton (FMF CB), a Fire Fighting and Damage Control School, the Naval Officer Training Centre (NOTC) Venture, and extensive housing including 716 personnel married quarters located at nine sites such as Belmont Park, WorkPoint, and Royal Roads.

The present dockyard and drydock, known as HMC Dockyard Esquimalt, dates to the Royal Navy's Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard (1842–1905) and was the Royal Navy's Pacific Station until 1911. Today it serves as the Canadian Naval Headquarters in the Pacific.

Operational and Support Units

Majors units of the base are[6]

Historic site

Due to their significance in Canadian naval history, four sites at CFB Esquimalt (the Dockyard, the former Royal Navy Hospital, the Veterans' Cemetery, and the Cole Island Magazine) have been designated the Esquimalt Naval Sites National Historic Site of Canada.[12]


Ships

HMCS Aurora, HMCS Patriot, and HMCS Patrician at Esquimalt in 1921.
Orca (PCT 55) (Template:Sclass-) cruises among the Gulf Islands, 1 August 2007.
HMCS Brandon, minesweeper based out of CFB Esquimalt.
HMCS Oriole, sail training ship based out of CFB Esquimalt.

As of March 2013, CFB Esquimalt services the following ships assigned to Canadian Fleet Pacific

Architecture

CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, in the background the Olympic Peninsula.

CFB Esquimalt contains several recognized and classified federal heritage buildings on the Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings.[16]

  • Colwood Site
    • Guard House Building 38 Recognized – 2002
    • Belmont Road Main Gatehouse BEL 13 Recognized – 2000[17]
    • Cow Barn / Dairy RR6 Recognized – 2000
    • Gatehouse Lodge RR8 Recognized – 2000
    • Grant Block, Building 24 Recognized – 1990
    • Gymnasium RR22 Recognized – 2000
    • Hatley Castle Classified – 1986
    • Nixon Block RR24A Recognized – 2000
    • Stable / Garage RR4 Recognized – 2000
    • Swimming Pool RR22A Recognized – 2000
  • Dockyard
    • Admiral's Residence, former Naval Storekeeper's Residence, Building D101 Classified – 1991
    • Aldergrove Building DY 199 Recognized – 2001
    • Bickford Tower, Building D118 Recognized – 1988[18]
    • Clothing / Receiving Stores, Building 211 Recognized – 1991
    • Cordage / Furniture Stores, Building D80 Recognized – 1991
    • Dry Dock Pumphouse, Building 175 Recognized – 1991
    • Electrical Shop Building DY 141 Recognized – 2001
    • Engineer's Residence, Building 1 Recognized – 1991
    • Factory, Building 51 Recognized – 1991
    • Guard House Building 214 Recognized – 1991
    • Main Office, Building 70 Recognized – 1991
    • Oil Stores Building 83 Recognized – 1991
    • Ordnance Stores, Building D77 Recognized – 1991
    • Royal Navy Prison, Building D26 Recognized – 1991
    • Rum / Salt Meats Stores, Building D75-76 Recognized – 1991
    • Sail Loft / Oil Stores, Building 109 Recognized – 1991
    • Shipwrights' Shed / Spar Shed, Building D113 Recognized – 1991
    • Stone Frigate Building D38 Recognized – 1991
    • Warehouse Building D85 Recognized – 1986
  • Naden
    • Administration Block, Building 37 Recognized – 1990
    • Administration Office, former Offices of the Officer-in-Charge, Building 5 Recognized – 1991
    • Catholic Chapel, Building 35 Recognized – 1990
    • Communications School, Building 67 Recognized – 1991
    • Drill Hall Building 33-33A-33B Recognized – 1991
    • Gunnery School, former Building 50 Recognized – 1991[19]
    • Nelles Block, Building 34 Recognized – 1994
    • Officer's Ward / Base Museum, Building 20 Recognized – 1990
    • Protestant Chapel Building 39 Recognized – 1990
    • Radar Training Building 92A Recognized – 2006
    • Stores / Museum Warehouse, Building 29 Recognized – 1990
    • Torpedo School, former Building 2 Recognized – 1991
    • Trades Training Building 92 Recognized – 2006
  • Signal Hill
    • Armament Artificer's and Sergeant's Quarters, former Building 522 Recognized – 1991
    • Gun Emplacement, Building 578 Recognized – 1990
    • Private Married Quarters, former Building 523 Recognized – 1991
    • Reserve Ordnance Stores, former Building 508 Recognized – 1991
  • Work Point Barracks
    • Administration Building 1020 Recognized – 1991
    • Artillery Barracks, Building 1075 Recognized – 1991
    • Barracks Building 1004 Recognized – 1991

The Institute for Stained Glass in Canada has documented the stained glass at the Multi-Faith Naval Chapel[20] and the stained glass at the Old Naval and Garrison Church (1866), now known as St Paul's Anglican.[21]

Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum

Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum
Map
LocationHMCS Naden, Naden Museum Square, Building 37, Esquimalt, British Columbia
Websitehttp://www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org

CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum is located at HMCS Naden.[22] Building 20 (c. 1891), part of Naden Museum Square is a Municipal Heritage Property.[23] Building 37 (c. 1889) part of the Naden Museum Square is also a Municipal Heritage Property and is also on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.[24] HMCS Naden was named after the Dominion Government Ship Naden, which was commissioned as a tender for the Royal Naval College of Canada from 1918 to 1922 for training in sail.[25] The museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, OMMC and Virtual Museum of Canada.

Other facilities

CFB Esquimalt operates a bus service to provide intra-base transportation.

The Lookout[26] is the base newspaper, which covers local, national and international news with specific interest to Navy and Canadian Forces members and family issues.[27]

Other properties that are part of CFB Esquimalt include the Albert Head training area near Albert Head, Metchosin, located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) by road southwest of downtown Victoria. It occupies approximately 88 hectares (220 acres), 4 of which are developed as training facilities. Fort Albert Head was established in the late 1800s along with Fort Rodd Hill and other installations, to provide shore defence for the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Victoria Harbour. The training area is used for Regular and Reserve Force training throughout nine months of the year and is home to the Regional Cadet Instructor School (Pacific) that trains Canadian Forces Cadet Instructors Cadre (CIC) Branch that deliver the cadet program. During the summer months of June, July and August the area houses the Albert Head Air Cadet Summer Training Centre. Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental Test Range at Nanoose Bay is also part of CFB Esquimalt. The facility provides non-explosive technical testing of sonobuoys, torpedoes and other equipment. Naval Radio Station Aldergrove in the Fraser Valley houses transmitting and receiving equipment for long distance communications. Also, the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Fire Station and emergency center was founded to provides services to CFB Esquimalt and the civil community in the way of fire intervention and emergency response.[28]

Map showing the three areas of the base.
The Cadet Instructors Cadre.

Economical facts

See also

Nearby naval facilities

Historical background

References

  1. ^ http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/operations-regional-jtf-pacific/jtf-pacific.page
  2. ^ http://www.forces.gc.ca/fr/a-propos-retombees-economiques/bfc-esquimalt.page
  3. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20100131211900/http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca:80/marpac/3/3-w_eng.asp
  4. ^ Naden lost its "HMCS" designation in unification when all Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) shore establishments became part of the Canadian Forces Base system."Canada – National Defence: CFB Esquimalt – History Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine"
  5. ^ http://www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca/en/news-operations/news-view.page?doc=her-majesty-s-canadian-ships-return-from-outstanding-deployment/iiafp2k0
  6. ^ http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/about-economic-impact/cfb-esquimalt.page
  7. ^ http://www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca/en/news-operations/news-view.page?doc=naval-training-system-gets-a-refit/iqdip9d0
  8. ^ http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/squadron/443-squadron.page
  9. ^ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prévôt_des_Forces_canadiennes
  10. ^ http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&index=alt&srchtxt=11%20VICTORIA%20SERVICE%20BATTALION
  11. ^ http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/4-crpg/index.page
  12. ^ Esquimalt Naval Sites. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  13. ^ https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/ships-histories/yellowknife.html
  14. ^ "Canadian Navy: MARPAC – Maritime Forces Pacific – Esquimalt Harbour". 13 December 2006. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ http://readyayeready.com/ships/shipview.php?id=1481
  16. ^ http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/beefp-fhbro/FHB_Rech_Search_e.asp[permanent dead link‍] Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings.
  17. ^ https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_fhbro_eng.aspx?id=9048
  18. ^ https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_fhbro_eng.aspx?id=3176&i=64022
  19. ^ https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_fhbro_eng.aspx?id=4025
  20. ^ stained glass at the Multi-Faith Naval Chapel http://stainedglasscanada.ca/site.php?site=311
  21. ^ stained glass at the Old Naval and Garrison Church (1866) http://stainedglasscanada.ca/site.php?site=310
  22. ^ "CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum Home Page". Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  23. ^ Naden Museum Square, Building 20. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
  24. ^ "HistoricPlaces.ca – Listing – Naden Museum Square, Building 37". Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  25. ^ Reference: Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Works and Its Defences, by Major F.V. Longstaff, 1941,
  26. ^ http://www.lookoutnewspaper.com
  27. ^ "The Look-Out". Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  28. ^ https://cba.vreb.org/cfb-esquimalt-base-fire- hall-emergency-response center-2 /
  29. ^ https://www.colwood.ca/discover-colwood/points-of-interest/canadian-forces-base-esquimalt
  30. ^ http://www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca/en/about/structure-marpac-home.page
  31. ^ https://www.esquimalt.ca/sites/default/files/docs/business-development/eds_esquimalt_web_jan_2015.pdf
  32. ^ http://www.forces.gc.ca/fr/a-propos-retombees-economiques/bfc-esquimalt.page
  33. ^ http://www.forces.gc.ca/fr/a-propos-retombees-economiques/bfc-esquimalt.page
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