List of Royal Canadian Navy bases (1911–68)
This is a list of shore-based facilities operated by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from its creation in 1911 until unification into the Canadian Forces on February 1, 1968.
All RCN shore-based facilities in this period followed the naming tradition of the Royal Navy, whereby the prefix HMCS or Naval Radio Station (NRS), was affixed. This tradition is somewhat maintained under the RCN's successor, Canadian Forces Maritime Command where certain facilities such as HMCS Trinity and NRS Aldergrove, are still formally referred to in this fashion, likely out of tradition, however the entire bases at the deep water ports of Victoria and Halifax are now referred to as a Canadian Forces Base or CFB. For Canadian Forces Bases operated by the modern Royal Canadian Navy see Canadian_Forces_Bases#Royal_Canadian_Navy.
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Primary deep water ports
British Columbia
- HMCS Naden - former training shore facility within Esquimalt Naval Base
Nova Scotia
British Columbia
- HMCS Comox
- HMCS Patricia Bay (Patricia Bay) - West Camp of the former RCAF Patricia Bay was used by the RCN from 1954 to 1968 and by the CF Maritime Command from 1968 to 1974; now part of Victoria International Airport.[1]
Nova Scotia
- RCNAS Shearwater (co-located with RCAF Station Shearwater)
Auxiliary bases and stations
British Columbia
- HMCS Royal Roads(closed)
- NRS Aldergrove
- NRS Masset
- HMCS Naden - within Esquimalt Naval Base
New Brunswick
- HMCS Coverdale (Coverdale, New Brunswick) - intercept and high-frequency direction-finding station 1944-1971; sold to New Brunswick government and now abosrbed into nearby residential community (some areas left abandoned).[2][3]
- HMCS Renous - former RCAF Station Chatham renamed CFB Chatham in 1966 and closed in 1995; located next to Miramichi Municipal Airport, the base is now Skypark Miramichi Industrial Park, Royal Canadian Air Cadets Atlantic Region Gliding School and home to the Federal Gun Registry.
Nova Scotia
- HMCS Cornwallis
- HMCS Stadacona
- HMCS Newport Corner
- HMCS Albro Lake
- HMCS Mount Uniacke - former radio station closed and abandoned
See also
- List of Naval Reserve divisions for a list of Canadian Forces Naval Reserve facilities, some of which were used by the RCN's reserve.
