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Its construction required some 5000 tons of reinforcing steel and about 33,000 tons of concrete. It is a monolithic structure (about 154 ft x 154 ft square, 60 ft “tall” box) designed to resist a nuclear detonation by displacing a few inches in a five foot thick envelope of gravel. It cost approximately $20 million for structures (about $110 million in today’s dollars). The main building totals just over 100,000 square feet of usable space. It consists of four floors, a Bank of Canada Vault extension and an external “Garage” on about 80 acres.

1961 before the bunker was even fully completed or operational. The ‘Secret’ was not-so-secret as the above article by journalist George Brimmell demonstrates! At the time Prime Minister Diefenbaker was reportedly furious when this article appeared in the Toronto Telegram newspaper on Sept 11. It was ‘secretly’ constructed under the supervision of Department of National Defence Military Engineers and Signal Staffs by Foundation Company of Canada (Montreal) using then recently developed Critical Path Method of Project Management and appears to have been completed on-time and on-budget. The flagship of Canada’s ‘system’ of Continuity of Government emergency government fallout and blast ‘bunkers’, the CEGHQ was built from1959 to 1961.

to see an organisation chart of the EGFs as of about the mid to late 1980s.ĮmGovSitCen Reports Compilation Area showing the operational status of the various EmGov Facilities (‘bunkers’) of the Continuity of Government Program on the Far Wall (This is Status Board is an original tally board preserved from the operational period of the bunker) EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS ACROSS CANADA TheĬentral Emergency Headquarters at CARP, ON) Click on the following link Hierarchy of Emergency Government Facilities across Canada.

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