Canadian Forces base


A Canadian Forces base or CFB 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.
Minor installations are named Canadian Forces station or CFS. A Canadian Forces station could host a single minor unit. 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:
Manitoba:
New Brunswick:
Ontario:
Quebec:
Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces bases used by the Royal Canadian Navy are individual commissioned ships of the RCN.
British Columbia:
Nova Scotia:
Newfoundland and Labrador
  • CFS St. John's
Nunavut:
Note: Primary lodger units at Canadian Forces bases used by the Royal Canadian Air Force are wings of the RCAF.
Alberta:
British Columbia:
Manitoba:
Newfoundland and Labrador:
Nova Scotia:
Ontario:
Quebec:
Saskatchewan:
The RCAF supplies aircraft to Canadian Joint Operations Command, which frequently operate from a chain of forward operating locations 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

Nunavut
Ontario
Quebec
Yukon

Defunct bases

Alberta:
British Columbia:
Manitoba:
New Brunswick:
Nova Scotia:
Ontario:
Prince Edward Island:
Quebec:
  • CFB St. Hubert
  • CFB St. Jean
Other:
Alberta:
British Columbia:
Manitoba:
New Brunswick:
Nova Scotia:
Newfoundland and Labrador:
Northwest Territories:
Nunavut:
Ontario:
Quebec:
Saskatchewan:
Yukon:
Other:
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.