Canadian Forces base

A Canadian Forces base or CFB (French: base des Forces canadiennes, BFC) is a military installation of the Canadian Armed Forces. For a facility to qualify as a Canadian Forces base, it must station one or more major units (e.g., army regiments, navy ships, air force wings).

Minor installations are named Canadian Forces station or CFS (French: station des Forces canadiennes, SFC). A Canadian Forces station could host a single minor unit (e.g., an early-warning radar station). Many of these facilities are now decommissioned for administrative purposes and function as detachments of a larger Canadian Forces base nearby.

Current

Canadian Army

Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces Bases used by the Canadian Army are regiments of the Canadian Army.

Alberta:

CFB Edmonton
CFB Suffield
CFB Wainwright

Manitoba:

CFB Shilo

New Brunswick:

CFB Gagetown

Ontario:

CFB Kingston
CFB Borden
Garrison Petawawa

Quebec:

CFB Montreal
CFB Valcartier

Royal Canadian Navy

Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces Bases used by the Royal Canadian Navy are individual commissioned ships of the RCN.

British Columbia:

CFB Esquimalt

Nova Scotia:

CFB Halifax

Newfoundland and Labrador

CFS St. John's

Nunavut:

Naval Facility Nanisivik

Royal Canadian Air Force

Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces Bases used by the Royal Canadian Air Force are wings of the RCAF.

Alberta:

CFB Cold Lake

British Columbia:

CFB Comox

Manitoba:

CFB Winnipeg (CFAD Dundurn)

Newfoundland and Labrador:

CFB Gander
CFB Goose Bay

Nova Scotia:

CFB Greenwood

Ontario:

CFB Kingston
CFB Borden
CFB North Bay
CFB Trenton (CFD Mountain View)

Quebec:

CFB Bagotville

Saskatchewan:

CFB Moose Jaw

The RCAF supplies aircraft to Canadian Joint Operations Command, which frequently operate from a chain of forward operating locations (FOLs) at various civilian airfields across northern Canada, capable of supporting RCAF operations. CF-18 Hornets, CP-140 Auroras and various transport and search and rescue aircraft periodically deploy to these FOLs for short training exercises, Arctic sovereignty patrols, aid to the civil power, or search and rescue operations.

All services

Northwest Territories

CFNA HQ Yellowknife

Nunavut

CFS Alert

Ontario

Department of National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa
NDHQ Carling, Ottawa
CFS Leitrim, Ottawa
Connaught Range and Primary Training Centre (CRPTC), Ottawa

Quebec

Citadelle of Quebec, Quebec
Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School (CFLRS)

Yukon

CFNA HQ Whitehorse

Closed

Defunct bases

Alberta:

CFB Calgary (portion of property currently hosts 41 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters (Waters Building), 41 Combat Engineer Regiment (Currie Building) and 41 Service Battalion (Currie Building).
CFB Penhold

British Columbia:

CFB Chilliwack (portion of property currently hosts ASU Chilliwack)

Manitoba:

CFB Winnipeg (Kapyong Barracks)
CFB Portage La Prairie
CFB Rivers

New Brunswick:

CFB Chatham
CFB Moncton (portion of property currently hosts CFB Gagetown - Detachment Moncton)

Nova Scotia:

CFB Cornwallis
CFB Shearwater (Shearwater Heliport now part of CFB Halifax)

Ontario:

CFB Clinton
CFB Centralia
CFB Downsview (portion of property currently hosts ASU Toronto)
CFB London (Wolseley Barracks) (portion of property currently hosts ASU London)
CFB Picton
CFB Rockcliffe
CFB Uplands

Prince Edward Island:

CFB Summerside

Quebec:

CFB St. Hubert
CFB St. Jean (now home to the CF Leadership and Recruit School, a lodger unit of CFB Montreal)

Other:

CFB Baden-Soellingen, Germany
CFB Lahr, Germany

Defunct stations

Alberta:

CFS Beaverlodge

British Columbia:

CFS Aldergrove
CFS Baldy Hughes
CFS Holberg
CFS Kamloops
CFS Ladner
CFS Masset (now a detachment of CFS Leitrim)

Manitoba:

CFS Beausejour
CFS Churchill
CFS Flin Flon
CFS Gypsumville

New Brunswick:

CFS Coverdale
CFS Renous
CFS St. Margarets

Nova Scotia:

CFS Barrington
CFS Debert
CFS Mill Cove
CFS Newport Corner
CFS Shelburne
CFS Sydney

Newfoundland and Labrador:

CFS Gander (Now CFB Gander)
CFS Goose Bay (Now CFB Goose Bay)
CFS Saglek

Northwest Territories:

CFS Inuvik

Nunavut:

CFS Frobisher Bay

Ontario:

CFS Armstrong
CFS Carp
CFS Cobourg
CFS Falconbridge
CFS Foymount
CFS Gloucester
CFS Lowther
CFS Moosonee
CFS Ramore
CFS Sioux Lookout

Quebec:

CFS Chibougamau
CFS Moisie
CFS Mont Apica
CFS Lac St. Denis
CFS Senneterre
RCAF Station Parent
CFS Val-d'Or

Saskatchewan:

CFS Alsask
CFS Dana
CFS Yorkton

Yukon:

CFS Whitehorse

Other:

CFS Bermuda, Bermuda

The Canadian Forces were reduced during the 1990s from a high of 90,000 personnel in the late 1980s to the present force levels. Coinciding with personnel and equipment reductions was the politically controversial decision to close a number of bases and stations which were obsolete or created duplication.

A small number of these "closed" facilities have actually continued operating as before; but, because of cost and administrative efficiency—or, in the case of radio and radar facilities, automation—, they have been absorbed into other nearby bases and therefore do not qualify for separate designations. For example, the CF Leadership and Recruit School at St. Jean, Quebec, is now a lodger unit of CFB Montreal, and the former CFS Masset is a detachment of CFS Leitrim. Other facilities are now used as training grounds for reserve/militia units.