This one was a lot of fun - I believe that the CFS Dana site has the most original buildings still standing abandoned out of all the Pinetree Line bases. Most of the other bases were demolished or repurposed. Some of the buildings on the CFB Dana site have been removed, demolished or repurposed. But most of the original buildings remain, and it was a blast walking through this piece of Cold War era history. Thanks for watching!
My youngest uncle used to work there (now passed away) he used to also farm land and had so much energy that his greed drove him to be a part time criminal. For some reason every time he got caught doing crime they would always leave him go with a warning. He used to steal lots of odds and ends from that place when he worked there especially during the eventual closure of the facility. He was so too faced to the point that he expected to use my dad's farm equipment for free and when it would break down he would rarely repair it in a timely matter and my dad had to repair it or he would have no machinery to use. He also got his oldest son to bribe me with threats to give him a big bag of antique coins that my mom was keeping that her father had collected over the years. I used to also be a criminal and guess who got me into it ?
My family lived there in one of those mobile home trailers in about 72-74 I believe. My dad was stationed there and i was a military brat. Dad and i drove through there on the way to moose jaw in around 94 i believe. we found our old trailer still sitting there. was a trip down memory lane for sure. The Base was wide open we just drove right in and around. We also attended in around 85 i think some kind of anniversary i think. Dad's gone now but i sure would have liked to have shown him this video. Thanks' for making and posting this.
Wow, what a great video! The model at 7:58 is one of the coolest things I've ever seen found in an abandoned building. The heating plant at 9:21 with all of the vegetation is neat as well. It gives me Last of Us vibes. Nature truly does reclaim everything.
Yeah that model was one of my favorite finds as well, very unexpected. Overall it was a lot of fun and it was a random twist of fate that led to me talking with the property owner, I'm looking forward to visiting Alsask in the spring and I plan on visiting more old radar sites. Thanks for watching!
I farmed South of Dana, North of Colonsay. Back in the day we would have jet fighters fly over us in the field just above the trees. They often dropped foil mesh similar to a curly kate pot scrubber but made from aluminum. We would find this stuff occasionally across our land. They used this foil in an attempt to sneak up on the radar. As an amateur radio operator and member of the Saskatoon amateur radio club we arranged a tour of the Dana base. I was so disappointed we did not get to see inside the domes as it was still operational. The antenna arrays were still top secret. We drove by Dana many times on number 2 highway to northern lakes. The radar base was always a mysterious place. Thanks for the update. Gary.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! It was a lot of fun exploring this base, I would have like to have had more time though and I hope to return next year. It's been really interesting learning about this place and Canada's Cold War history in general. Cheers
I live 10 miles from that place and back when I were about five years old some people that worked there stole a twin motor aircraft and chopped it up into parts. They used the two wheels to make a Bale wagon lol. They Sold the motors the props and miscellaneous other items to other people. They use the scrap metals to build numerous other projects , a metal boat , pieces and patches for buildings. I always find it strange that people have lots of energy good job and they still choose to do crime. Greedy.
Great video! Boy, I wish you had taken me up on my offer of second camera and drone when you did this shoot. BTW, that model of the station belongs in a museum!
Thanks for watching - I didn't know the offer was on the table! I'm just a rookie running around with a Cannon M50 and a cheap gimbal lol. A drone would have been very useful at this site - there are actually a couple places that I'm not going to visit until I have a drone camera, the Majorville Medicine Wheel in Alberta for example. Maybe we can team up for a Saskatchewan video next year! I plan on doing a couple road trips there spring/summer 2025. Cheers!
I was at CFB Penhold 1982 - 1986 when we tore it down. One of my classmates went to Dana. Both sites had the same FPS-27A search radar systems. Of the various systems the military operated, this was the most impressive equipment wise. 15 million watts of radar energy, 50,000 volt power supply at 1,200 amps, the main klystron tube was water cooled requiring a large cooling tower outside. The old systems the designers thought that better range was achieved with more power. But they found more sensitive receivers were a better solution.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! It's been interesting learning about the history of this site and I'd like to return in the spring. I just learned about the old GATR building to the southeast of the main base, it would be neat to explore that as well. Cheers
@@strangenorth there is also an old concrete building southwest of the place , lt used to house the big generators. Can you imagine how much underground copper wire there is going from that building to the main site. I also remember going to that building back when I were younger in my drinking days , it was one of many places lots of people partied at.
Hey thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed this one! I'm a big fan of the work you guys do preserving Canada's cold war history, definitely a topic I've become more interested in. I actually featured you guys a lot in a little video I did on the old cold war bunkers in Edmonton, I love the pictures of the old underground bunker on 142 street. Cheers!
Good stuff! There is so much untold military history in our province. Have you heard of the British Commonwealth Air training program for WW2? There are several former training stations and air strips around the province and Western Canada. The WDM in Moose Jaw has a very informative display. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching - this was a lot of fun to explore. I don't know too much about that but I do recall that the program had a training facility at the downtown airport in Edmonton during WW2. Maybe I'll check out the museum in Moose Jaw when I visit in the spring, I still haven't been inside any of the WDM locations. Cheers
I lived there as a child from 1983 to 1986 a year before it closed. It was a great place to live. Great video, it is hard to see how bad it's deteriorated when you remember it in it's prime.
Thanks for watching - it's interesting to see how much the buildings have decayed since 2008. This one was a lot of fun to make, this site has a really interesting history! Cheers
Awesome video! I helped my uncle farm in the area and have hunted a fair bit out near. Always wanted to know what was all up there. Eye opening what’s all up on the hill!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed this one! I'm glad I happened to drive by this site randomly, it was a blast exploring the base and I hope to return next spring. Cheers
Thanks for the video, well done! I lived and grew up on CFS Dana until it closed. Some great people were part of the community and I still have a fond connection to that place.
Thanks for watching, it was a lot of fun exploring this base. I have enjoyed going through the CFS Dana Facebook group to see the interesting memories people have shared, seemed like a neat place. Cheers!
Thanks for watching - I didn't even notice that, I just picked some random pictures that looked cool. I have enjoyed going through the CFS Dana Facebook group and looking at all of the interesting memories people have shared. Canadian cold war era history is an interesting subject! Cheers
Thanks for watching - great question! I didn't notice anything like that this time but I had limited time during this visit. I'd like to go back again, I'm going to be up there May 2025 and I'd like to do a more thorough exploration. Cheers
Was there 70/72, great people, fun times, worked on the radars. You should check out CFS Yorkton, some of there building are in really good shape, since they got repurposed
Thanks for watching - this one was a lot fun to make. I was actually thinking of visiting the old CFS Yorkton site as well next spring, isn't it some sort of correctional facility now? I'll be in east SK next year and might make a trip up there. Cheers!
It's an adult male reduced custody facility. It's used to reintegrate inmates coming off of lighter sentences or addictions into society but it's a broken system. The original buildings remain in great shape at former YFS Yorkton the chapels no longer used but the recentre/gym is and remains is great shape with the bowling alley the main building is where the inmates housed under all the units there's access points and tunnels that run the length of the building. The kitchen is still used as well as all the power house buildings for maintenance and other things. The trailers where military and or civilian personnel lived on the base were there until a few years ago long with the school playground but they've since been removed. There's a GATR site down the road that's part of the base that's abandoned it's pretty cool. Great video thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching, this was a really cool spot! Might post another video with more footage, I have a lot more and I wasn't sure how long to make this one. Cheers
Got married in the chapel in 1972, and received a Saskatchewan marriage certificate, a Canadian Armed Forces marriage certificate and probably the last Royal Canadian Air Force marriage certificate. Brings back a lot of good memories. So sad to see the decay. Time waits for no one.
Thanks for watching - that's really interesting, it was so cool going through that old chapel. Really fun making this video and I've become more interested in Canada's Cold War history. Cheers
We have a similar site in my country. It was built by the Americans in the 1950s and was in service until 72. Some of the buildings are still there, including the tracking dish. But yea... they have all seen better days.
Very interesting. A great video. Never knew about Dana. In about 1974-75 I did fly in to Shingle Point Radar Station on the DEW Line, and stayed there for a week. It was fully operational at the time. (an Air France jet liner flew in on the wrong sector of the sky, and two F-4 Phantom jets were scrambled from Fairbanks to intercept it.) We also did fly over Stokes Point which was the next one down the line to it (and saw it was fully abandoned and removed for the most part). Those were located at north shore of Yukon and near north shore of Mackenzie Delta.
Cool I live in Bruno Saskatchewan, I drove the town or village of Dana last week. my family owns the Bruno Car Wash, which used to do the laundry for the base at Dana at one time so it was plumbed for six washer and dryers. I believe they have the contract for the bedding for the base at Dana anyways that’s what we were told by the old timers in town
Thanks for watching, I'm gonna look that one up! I've become really interested in Canada's Cold War history and I'd love to explore more old bases like this. Cheers
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On the second day of WW3 the living will envy the dead😢
Interesting video. Driven down this highway many times and I wondered what the strange building on the bison ranch was -I guess I know now. I have heard there is also an abandoned recreation site in that area. Would like to explore that sometime.
If my guess is right and the abandoned recreation site you're thinking about is the same one I know about , there's nothing left on that site except for the short length of pavement that was obviously the entry point off the main highway. Had a few good parties out at that place back in my younger days when I used to drink.
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This is a perfect example of the enormous amount of government waste in Canada, facilities like this one cost millions of dollars to construct and should be re purposed instead of abandoned before more tax dollars are given to the military
Yawn. Until you see the invoice for “repurposing” hundreds of obsolete facilities, then that would be “waste” to you. Most of those buildings were insulated with asbestos tiles and pipe wrap. Our beloved federal government, for the past 80 years, has never set aside enough money for military operational requirements, let alone decommissioning those old facilities. But there is plenty of money to send overseas.
@@garywagner2466 I've cleaned out a number of buildings filled with asbestos , no mask. I'm 55 and still alive! Just so though lol. Just get the real bad criminals to go in there and clean out all the asbestos!
My brother was stationed here on the day JFK was killed. They were immediately placed on alert. He spent endless hours on the roof of a building. The only firearms on the base were WWII Lee Enfields. They were bored for 22 calibre for indoor range practice. He claimed they had no rounds for the weapons, and based on my own experience based at CFB Moose Jaw during the same period, we had no weapons, defensive or offensive. If we had been invaded, I guess we would have sicced the Canada Geese on them.
Thanks for watching - I'm surprised they weren't better stocked with guns and ammunition! You'd think they would be required to keep a certain amount of weaponry on site. Really interesting spot to explore, I hope to return in the spring. Cheers
I find it highly strange that they make such a big deal out of nothing! One guy gets killed and it's the end of the world lol. It's almost like they're playing a role for the rest of us!
Great video. Well done. I hope you wear suitable safety gear, especially heavy boots and a respirator (didn’t see one in the reflection) to protect yourself. Those buildings are probably full of asbestos. The flaking paint is likely lead based. If there are dead animals there may be airborne pathogens, mold, spores, and God knows what else. Keep your inoculations up to date, especially tetanus, in case you get punctured by a rusty piece of metal. Stay safe and healthy.
Too bad you couldn't make it to the family housing area, those places were the seat of sanity for remote bases like this. The wives had their own sub-culture and pecking order and it all went toward maintaining civility and reducing the amount of savagery isolated soldiers develop over long deployments out in bumfugh. The houses were all simple, 1960s single family dwellings, all alike, plain and uniform so it was up to the women to make them a home fit to raise children in. Individuality would be found in the things the family made to decorate the house, things that couldn't be bought and transported to a highly secure location, like picture walls of photos from "Home", wall painting in the children's rooms, repurposed packing into useful, even attractive furnishings, almost all done by the women and helped more by the kids than the Daddy. (Not to put the Daddy down, carrying the fate of the world on your shoulders can be very tiring.) The lack of permanence with occasional bright spots are the common memories of the Army Brats I have met over the years, but there is always that one place, usually where they stayed the longest, that holds the sweetest memories. Small stories left behind in base housing are sometimes magical.
I Remember Testing the Dana Base Defense Force as part of an Exercise in the winter of 1979, I was a reservist with the North Saskatchewan Light Infantry, B Coy, Prince Albert. Our Company's Tasking was to Assault the Main Radar Domes. I remember Trudging through the snow carrying a Ladder and a FNC2 for about 2-3 Km, when we finally got to our objective I was told by one of the Umpires that I would not be allowed to shoot through the Chain Link Fence, while the assault team climbed the ladders. I then proceed to ignore the umpire, I stuck the barrel of my C2 through the fence and proceeded to lay down Cover Fire. LOL
@@lawrencetierney3697 those were the days 18 young and foolish and the rest of the so called adult fools allow an 18 year old to hold a firearm. The people that are allowed to hold firearms are the people that shouldn't be allowed to hold firearms lol
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Norad has the lamest coat of arms of all services, a kindergarten class could have done better
Cool I live in Bruno Saskatchewan, I drove the town or village of Dana last week. my family owns the Bruno Car Wash, which used to do the laundry for the base at Dana at one time so it was plumbed for six washer and dryers. I believe they have the contract for the bedding for the base at Dana anyways that’s what we were told by the old timers in town
This one was a lot of fun - I believe that the CFS Dana site has the most original buildings still standing abandoned out of all the Pinetree Line bases. Most of the other bases were demolished or repurposed. Some of the buildings on the CFB Dana site have been removed, demolished or repurposed. But most of the original buildings remain, and it was a blast walking through this piece of Cold War era history. Thanks for watching!
The miniature model of the place should be preserved in a museum. It should be a crime to waste all those good resources.
I remember going to parties in that old bar lounge back in the day when I used to drink alcohol.
My youngest uncle used to work there (now passed away) he used to also farm land and had so much energy that his greed drove him to be a part time criminal. For some reason every time he got caught doing crime they would always leave him go with a warning. He used to steal lots of odds and ends from that place when he worked there especially during the eventual closure of the facility. He was so too faced to the point that he expected to use my dad's farm equipment for free and when it would break down he would rarely repair it in a timely matter and my dad had to repair it or he would have no machinery to use. He also got his oldest son to bribe me with threats to give him a big bag of antique coins that my mom was keeping that her father had collected over the years. I used to also be a criminal and guess who got me into it ?
My family lived there in one of those mobile home trailers in about 72-74 I believe. My dad was stationed there and i was a military brat. Dad and i drove through there on the way to moose jaw in around 94 i believe. we found our old trailer still sitting there. was a trip down memory lane for sure. The Base was wide open we just drove right in and around. We also attended in around 85 i think some kind of anniversary i think. Dad's gone now but i sure would have liked to have shown him this video. Thanks' for making and posting this.
Wow, what a great video! The model at 7:58 is one of the coolest things I've ever seen found in an abandoned building. The heating plant at 9:21 with all of the vegetation is neat as well. It gives me Last of Us vibes. Nature truly does reclaim everything.
Yeah that model was one of my favorite finds as well, very unexpected. Overall it was a lot of fun and it was a random twist of fate that led to me talking with the property owner, I'm looking forward to visiting Alsask in the spring and I plan on visiting more old radar sites. Thanks for watching!
I farmed South of Dana, North of Colonsay. Back in the day we would have jet fighters fly over us in the field just above the trees. They often dropped foil mesh similar to a curly kate pot scrubber but made from aluminum. We would find this stuff occasionally across our land. They used this foil in an attempt to sneak up on the radar. As an amateur radio operator and member of the Saskatoon amateur radio club we arranged a tour of the Dana base. I was so disappointed we did not get to see inside the domes as it was still operational. The antenna arrays were still top secret. We drove by Dana many times on number 2 highway to northern lakes. The radar base was always a mysterious place. Thanks for the update. Gary.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! It was a lot of fun exploring this base, I would have like to have had more time though and I hope to return next year. It's been really interesting learning about this place and Canada's Cold War history in general. Cheers
I live 10 miles from that place and back when I were about five years old some people that worked there stole a twin motor aircraft and chopped it up into parts. They used the two wheels to make a Bale wagon lol. They Sold the motors the props and miscellaneous other items to other people. They use the scrap metals to build numerous other projects , a metal boat , pieces and patches for buildings. I always find it strange that people have lots of energy good job and they still choose to do crime. Greedy.
Great video! Boy, I wish you had taken me up on my offer of second camera and drone when you did this shoot. BTW, that model of the station belongs in a museum!
Thanks for watching - I didn't know the offer was on the table! I'm just a rookie running around with a Cannon M50 and a cheap gimbal lol. A drone would have been very useful at this site - there are actually a couple places that I'm not going to visit until I have a drone camera, the Majorville Medicine Wheel in Alberta for example. Maybe we can team up for a Saskatchewan video next year! I plan on doing a couple road trips there spring/summer 2025. Cheers!
I was at CFB Penhold 1982 - 1986 when we tore it down. One of my classmates went to Dana.
Both sites had the same FPS-27A search radar systems. Of the various systems the military operated, this was the most impressive equipment wise.
15 million watts of radar energy, 50,000 volt power supply at 1,200 amps, the main klystron tube was water cooled requiring a large cooling tower outside.
The old systems the designers thought that better range was achieved with more power. But they found more sensitive receivers were a better solution.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! It's been interesting learning about the history of this site and I'd like to return in the spring. I just learned about the old GATR building to the southeast of the main base, it would be neat to explore that as well. Cheers
@@strangenorth there is also an old concrete building southwest of the place , lt used to house the big generators. Can you imagine how much underground copper wire there is going from that building to the main site. I also remember going to that building back when I were younger in my drinking days , it was one of many places lots of people partied at.
Cool place, I'm glad you got permission to go on-site. It's refreshing to see a naturally deteriorating building that is not vandalized.
Thanks for watching - yeah no doubt eh, nice change to not be assaulted with vile graffiti during an abandoned exploration. Cheers
Very well done!
Hey thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed this one! I'm a big fan of the work you guys do preserving Canada's cold war history, definitely a topic I've become more interested in. I actually featured you guys a lot in a little video I did on the old cold war bunkers in Edmonton, I love the pictures of the old underground bunker on 142 street. Cheers!
Good stuff! There is so much untold military history in our province. Have you heard of the British Commonwealth Air training program for WW2? There are several former training stations and air strips around the province and Western Canada. The WDM in Moose Jaw has a very informative display. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching - this was a lot of fun to explore. I don't know too much about that but I do recall that the program had a training facility at the downtown airport in Edmonton during WW2. Maybe I'll check out the museum in Moose Jaw when I visit in the spring, I still haven't been inside any of the WDM locations. Cheers
I think this is my favorite discovery of yours. Great job, as always.
Thanks for watching - this one was a lot of fun to make, one of Saskatchewan's many surprises!
I lived there as a child from 1983 to 1986 a year before it closed. It was a great place to live. Great video, it is hard to see how bad it's deteriorated when you remember it in it's prime.
So did I at this time, I went to the school in kindergarten 1986
I would have been in grade 2
Thanks for watching - it's interesting to see how much the buildings have decayed since 2008. This one was a lot of fun to make, this site has a really interesting history! Cheers
I went to summer camp here in the early 90's. Thanks for this!
Thanks for watching - sounds like an interesting spot to have a summer camp! It was a lot of fun exploring this base, I hope to visit again. Cheers
Awesome video! I helped my uncle farm in the area and have hunted a fair bit out near. Always wanted to know what was all up there. Eye opening what’s all up on the hill!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed this one! I'm glad I happened to drive by this site randomly, it was a blast exploring the base and I hope to return next spring. Cheers
Thanks for the video, well done! I lived and grew up on CFS Dana until it closed. Some great people were part of the community and I still have a fond connection to that place.
Thanks for watching, it was a lot of fun exploring this base. I have enjoyed going through the CFS Dana Facebook group to see the interesting memories people have shared, seemed like a neat place. Cheers!
What's sad is the fact that a wealthy person got hold of it and left it go into ruins!
What's sad is the fact that a wealthy person got hold of it and left it go into ruins!
Wow...at 2:04 in the Video...can't believe they used the picture where I had my eyes closed.....
Thanks for watching - I didn't even notice that, I just picked some random pictures that looked cool. I have enjoyed going through the CFS Dana Facebook group and looking at all of the interesting memories people have shared. Canadian cold war era history is an interesting subject! Cheers
I'm pretty sure the person behind you is my grandfather.
Great videos, I enjoy the tour and history of these places. Keep em coming.
Thanks for watching, this one was super interesting. Looking forward to visiting Alsask in the spring. Cheers!
Thank you that was enjoyable and interesting. Old memory makes me wonder if you encounter anything underground?
Thanks for watching - great question! I didn't notice anything like that this time but I had limited time during this visit. I'd like to go back again, I'm going to be up there May 2025 and I'd like to do a more thorough exploration. Cheers
Howdy. There is nothing underground there. We were posted there for a few year till 86.
Was there 70/72, great people, fun times, worked on the radars. You should check out CFS Yorkton, some of there building are in really good shape, since they got repurposed
Thanks for watching - this one was a lot fun to make. I was actually thinking of visiting the old CFS Yorkton site as well next spring, isn't it some sort of correctional facility now? I'll be in east SK next year and might make a trip up there. Cheers!
It's an adult male reduced custody facility. It's used to reintegrate inmates coming off of lighter sentences or addictions into society but it's a broken system. The original buildings remain in great shape at former YFS Yorkton the chapels no longer used but the recentre/gym is and remains is great shape with the bowling alley the main building is where the inmates housed under all the units there's access points and tunnels that run the length of the building. The kitchen is still used as well as all the power house buildings for maintenance and other things. The trailers where military and or civilian personnel lived on the base were there until a few years ago long with the school playground but they've since been removed. There's a GATR site down the road that's part of the base that's abandoned it's pretty cool. Great video thanks for sharing!
We are excited for you to visit our facility!
Looking forward to it - I watched a RUclips video someone had posted with footage of your radar tower tour, looks awesome!
Very, very cool! I had no idea.
Thanks for watching, this was a really cool spot! Might post another video with more footage, I have a lot more and I wasn't sure how long to make this one. Cheers
Got married in the chapel in 1972, and received a Saskatchewan marriage certificate, a Canadian Armed Forces marriage certificate and probably the last Royal Canadian Air Force marriage certificate. Brings back a lot of good memories. So sad to see the decay. Time waits for no one.
Thanks for watching - that's really interesting, it was so cool going through that old chapel. Really fun making this video and I've become more interested in Canada's Cold War history. Cheers
cool video!
This one was a lot of fun, thanks for watching!
We have a similar site in my country.
It was built by the Americans in the 1950s and was in service until 72.
Some of the buildings are still there, including the tracking dish. But yea... they have all seen better days.
Thanks for watching - that makes sense, they had these sites everywhere! Have you ever explored your local abandoned base? Cheers
@@strangenorth.nah thats the only one that abandoned.
Search "Chaguramas Tracking Station". If have a few vids here on YT about it
Interesting, I'm gonna look that up!
Thank you! Well done! I used to live near there when it was operating. Curled there once or twice!
Theres actually a crazy amount of bunkers in Sask. Have you heard about "The bunker" in Rosetown? Always been curious as to what it is exactly
Thanks for watching - I haven't but I'm gonna look that one up. Anything to do with bunkers is interesting to me. Cheers
Have a look at Alsask
Thanks for watching - I plan on visiting Alsask May 2025! Cheers
Very interesting. A great video. Never knew about Dana. In about 1974-75 I did fly in to Shingle Point Radar Station on the DEW Line, and stayed there for a week. It was fully operational at the time. (an Air France jet liner flew in on the wrong sector of the sky, and two F-4 Phantom jets were scrambled from Fairbanks to intercept it.) We also did fly over Stokes Point which was the next one down the line to it (and saw it was fully abandoned and removed for the most part). Those were located at north shore of Yukon and near north shore of Mackenzie Delta.
Thanks!
I got married in the chapel there in 1981
Thanks for watching - that's pretty interesting, it was really cool exploring that old chapel. Cheers
Cool I live in Bruno Saskatchewan, I drove the town or village of Dana last week
Cool I live in Bruno Saskatchewan, I drove the town or village of Dana last week. my family owns the Bruno Car Wash, which used to do the laundry for the base at Dana at one time so it was plumbed for six washer and dryers. I believe they have the contract for the bedding for the base at Dana anyways that’s what we were told by the old timers in town
Theirs an old radar base in souix lookout Ontario you should look into.
Thanks for watching, I'm gonna look that one up! I've become really interested in Canada's Cold War history and I'd love to explore more old bases like this. Cheers
On the second day of WW3 the living will envy the dead😢
Here's hoping we can all avoid that!
Interesting video. Driven down this highway many times and I wondered what the strange building on the bison ranch was -I guess I know now. I have heard there is also an abandoned recreation site in that area. Would like to explore that sometime.
If my guess is right and the abandoned recreation site you're thinking about is the same one I know about , there's nothing left on that site except for the short length of pavement that was obviously the entry point off the main highway. Had a few good parties out at that place back in my younger days when I used to drink.
This is a perfect example of the enormous amount of government waste in Canada, facilities like this one cost millions of dollars to construct and should be re purposed instead of abandoned before more tax dollars are given to the military
Yawn. Until you see the invoice for “repurposing” hundreds of obsolete facilities, then that would be “waste” to you. Most of those buildings were insulated with asbestos tiles and pipe wrap. Our beloved federal government, for the past 80 years, has never set aside enough money for military operational requirements, let alone decommissioning those old facilities. But there is plenty of money to send overseas.
@@garywagner2466 I've cleaned out a number of buildings filled with asbestos , no mask. I'm 55 and still alive! Just so though lol. Just get the real bad criminals to go in there and clean out all the asbestos!
That's basically all the governments! They only care about themselves and the ride while it lasts!
Cool I live in Bruno Saskatchewan
My brother was stationed here on the day JFK was killed. They were immediately placed on alert. He spent endless hours on the roof of a building. The only firearms on the base were WWII Lee Enfields. They were bored for 22 calibre for indoor range practice. He claimed they had no rounds for the weapons, and based on my own experience based at CFB Moose Jaw during the same period, we had no weapons, defensive or offensive. If we had been invaded, I guess we would have sicced the Canada Geese on them.
Thanks for watching - I'm surprised they weren't better stocked with guns and ammunition! You'd think they would be required to keep a certain amount of weaponry on site. Really interesting spot to explore, I hope to return in the spring. Cheers
I find it highly strange that they make such a big deal out of nothing! One guy gets killed and it's the end of the world lol. It's almost like they're playing a role for the rest of us!
Great video. Well done. I hope you wear suitable safety gear, especially heavy boots and a respirator (didn’t see one in the reflection) to protect yourself. Those buildings are probably full of asbestos. The flaking paint is likely lead based. If there are dead animals there may be airborne pathogens, mold, spores, and God knows what else. Keep your inoculations up to date, especially tetanus, in case you get punctured by a rusty piece of metal. Stay safe and healthy.
Just like me it would seem that the guy in the video isn't too concerned about that stuff!
Too bad you couldn't make it to the family housing area, those places were the seat of sanity for remote bases like this. The wives had their own sub-culture and pecking order and it all went toward maintaining civility and reducing the amount of savagery isolated soldiers develop over long deployments out in bumfugh. The houses were all simple, 1960s single family dwellings, all alike, plain and uniform so it was up to the women to make them a home fit to raise children in. Individuality would be found in the things the family made to decorate the house, things that couldn't be bought and transported to a highly secure location, like picture walls of photos from "Home", wall painting in the children's rooms, repurposed packing into useful, even attractive furnishings, almost all done by the women and helped more by the kids than the Daddy. (Not to put the Daddy down, carrying the fate of the world on your shoulders can be very tiring.) The lack of permanence with occasional bright spots are the common memories of the Army Brats I have met over the years, but there is always that one place, usually where they stayed the longest, that holds the sweetest memories. Small stories left behind in base housing are sometimes magical.
I Remember Testing the Dana Base Defense Force as part of an Exercise in the winter of 1979, I was a reservist with the North Saskatchewan Light Infantry, B Coy, Prince Albert. Our Company's Tasking was to Assault the Main Radar Domes. I remember Trudging through the snow carrying a Ladder and a FNC2 for about 2-3 Km, when we finally got to our objective I was told by one of the Umpires that I would not be allowed to shoot through the Chain Link Fence, while the assault team climbed the ladders. I then proceed to ignore the umpire, I stuck the barrel of my C2 through the fence and proceeded to lay down Cover Fire. LOL
Thanks for watching - sounds wild, pretty interesting that there were exercises like that to test base defense! How often did those happen? Cheers
@@strangenorth; I don't know how often this was done, I was only18 at the time, so I wasn't concerned about how often.
@@lawrencetierney3697 those were the days 18 young and foolish and the rest of the so called adult fools allow an 18 year old to hold a firearm. The people that are allowed to hold firearms are the people that shouldn't be allowed to hold firearms lol
Norad has the lamest coat of arms of all services, a kindergarten class could have done better
Cool I live in Bruno Saskatchewan, I drove the town or village of Dana last week. my family owns the Bruno Car Wash, which used to do the laundry for the base at Dana at one time so it was plumbed for six washer and dryers. I believe they have the contract for the bedding for the base at Dana anyways that’s what we were told by the old timers in town