Canadian Forces Base Suffield

Canadian Forces Base Suffield is the largest Canadian Forces Base and the largest military training base in the Commonwealth. It is located in southeastern Alberta, 3NM north-northwest of Suffield, 50km northwest of the city of Medicine Hat and 250km southeast of Calgary. The base has its own radio station, BFBS, which airs programming for both the Canadian and British military personnel stationed at the base. HistoryChemical warfare trainingThe lands comprising modern-day CFB Suffield were known as the "Suffield Block", resulting from the Dominion Land Survey, and comprised marginal agricultural land, given the perpetual semi-arid climate. Some settlement was attempted, but during the droughts of the 1920s most farms were abandoned, along with some horses, whose feral descendants now roam the region. The total area measures approximately and borders an area north of the South Saskatchewan River. Following the fall of Algeria to Nazi Germany, the British Army required a new training facility for carrying out experiments in chemical warfare. In 1941, the federal government expropriated the Suffield Block, purchasing the majority of the land from the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Hudson's Bay Company; 452 residents were displaced. Experimental Station Suffield commenced operations on June 11, 1941.

Canadian Forces Base Suffield is the largest Canadian Forces Base and the largest military training base in the Commonwealth. It is located in southeastern Alberta, 3NM north-northwest of Suffield, 50km northwest of the city of Medicine Hat and 250km southeast of Calgary. The base has its own radio station, BFBS, which airs programming for both the Canadian and British military personnel stationed at the base. HistoryChemical warfare trainingThe lands comprising modern-day CFB Suffield were known as the "Suffield Block", resulting from the Dominion Land Survey, and comprised marginal agricultural land, given the perpetual semi-arid climate. Some settlement was attempted, but during the droughts of the 1920s most farms were abandoned, along with some horses, whose feral descendants now roam the region. The total area measures approximately and borders an area north of the South Saskatchewan River. Following the fall of Algeria to Nazi Germany, the British Army required a new training facility for carrying out experiments in chemical warfare. In 1941, the federal government expropriated the Suffield Block, purchasing the majority of the land from the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Hudson's Bay Company; 452 residents were displaced. Experimental Station Suffield commenced operations on June 11, 1941.