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Post by pyeknu on May 26, 2019 13:52:03 GMT
And now, the Naval Reserves in Eastern Ontario...!
EASTERN ONTARIO FLOTILLA/FLOTTILLE DE L'EST DE L'ONTARIO
Captain (Navy), Eastern Ontario Flotilla/Capitaine de Vaisseau de la Flottille de l'Est de l'Ontario (CAPT[N] EONTFLOT/CAPV FLOTEONT)
Headquarters, Seventeenth Maritime Operations Group/Quartier-Général de la Dix-Septième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (HQ MOG SEVENTEEN/QG 17e GOM)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Dows Lake Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Gloucester/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Gloucester (HMCS GLOUCESTER/NCSM GLOUCESTER)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Gloucester Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Naval Radio Section Leitrim/Section de Radio Navale Leitrim
Naval Radio Training Section Central/Section d'Entraînement de Radio Navale (Centre)
Supplementary Radio Section Glengarry/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Glengarry - ALEXANDRIA, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Leeds/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Leeds - GANANOQUE, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Renfrew/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Renfrew - RENFREW, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Carleton/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Carleton (HMCS CARLETON/NCSM CARLETON)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Dows Lake Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Capital Division/Division de Capitale
Alta Vista Division/Division d'Alta Vista - Riverview Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
College Division/Division de College - Barrhaven Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Cumberland Division/Division de Cumberland - Orléans Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Gloucester Division/Division de Gloucester - Gloucester Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Kanata Division/Division de Kanata - Stittsville Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Lower Rideau Division/Division du Bas-Rideau - Rockcliffe Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
West Carleton Division/Division d'Ouest de Carleton - Shirleys Bay Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Loyalist/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Loyalist (HMCS LOYALIST/NCSM LOYALIST)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - CORNWALL, Ontario
New Johnstown Division/Division de Nouveau-Johnstown
Dundas Division/Division de Dundas - MORRISBURG, Ontario
East Prescott Division/Division d'Est de Prescott - HAWKESBURY, Ontario
Glengarry Division/Division de Glengarry - ALEXANDRIA, Ontario
Russell Division/Division de Russell - CASSELMAN, Ontario
Stormont Division/Division de Stormont - FINCH, Ontario
West Prescott Division/Division d'Ouest de Prescott - ROCKLAND, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Madawaska/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Madawaska (HMCS MADAWASKA/NCSM MADAWASKA)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - PEMBROKE, Ontario
Pembroke Division/Division de Pembroke
Central Renfrew Division/Division du Centre de Renfrew - RENFREW, Ontario
North Lanark Division/Division du Nord de Lanark - CARLETON PLACE, Ontario
North Renfrew Division/Division du Nord de Renfrew - PETAWAWA, Ontario
South Lanark Division/Division du Sud de Lanark - SMITHS FALLS, Ontario
South Renfrew Division/Division du Sud de Renfrew - ARNPRIOR, Ontario
West Renfrew Division/Division d'Ouest de Renfrew - EGANVILLE, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Osborne (HMCS OSBORNE)
Headquarters Division - BROCKVILLE, Ontario
Elizabethtown Division
Front of Grenville Division - PRESCOTT, Ontario
Front of Leeds Division - GANANOQUE, Ontario
Rear of Grenville Division - KEMPTVILLE, Ontario
Rear of Leeds Division - NEWBORO, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Facility Prescott/Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Prescott (FMF PRESCOTT/IMF PRESCOTT)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - BROCKVILLE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Grenville/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Grenville
Fleet Maintenance Division Leeds/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Leeds - GANANOQUE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Ottawa/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Ottawa - Orléans Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Prescott/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Prescott - ROCKLAND, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Renfrew/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Renfrew - PEMBROKE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Stormont/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Stormont - FINCH, Ontario
King's Harbour Master Ottawa/Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Ottawa (KHM OTTAWA/CPSM OTTAWA)
Headquarters Division (Forward)/Division de Quartier-Général - PRESCOTT, Ontario
Headquarters Division (Rear)/Division de Quartier-Général (Arrière) - Orléans Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Lower Rideau/Division d'Appui de Port du Bas-Rideau
Harbour Support Division Central Rideau/Division d'Appui de Port du Centre-Rideau - KEMPTVILLE, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Long Sault/Division d'Appui de Port de Long-Sault - CORNWALL, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Lower Ottawa/Division d'Appui de Port du Bas-Outaouais - ROCKLAND, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Thousand Islands/Division d'Appui de Port des Mille-Îles - BROCKVILLE, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Upper Rideau/Division d'Appui de Port du Haut-Rideau - NEWBORO, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Cornwall (UPSD CORNWALL)
Headquarters - CORNWALL, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Lower Ottawa/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Bas-Outaouais (UPSD LOWER OTTAWA/DSPSM BAS-OUTAOUAIS)
Headquarters - HAWKESBURY, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Lower Rideau/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Bas-Rideau (UPSD LOWER RIDEAU/DSPSM BAS-RIDEAU)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Dows Lake Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Prescott (UPSD PRESCOTT)
Headquarters - PRESCOTT, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Upper Rideau/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins d'Haut-Rideau (UPSD UPPER RIDEAU/DSPSM HAUT-RIDEAU)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - SMITHS FALLS, Ontario
Rideau Band of the Eastern Ontario Flotilla/Musique de Rideau de la Flottille de l'Est de l'Ontario (RIDEAU BAND/MUS RIDEAU)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Dows Lake Naval Arsenal, OTTAWA, Ontario
In charge of all Naval Reserve forces in the southeastern part of the province, the Eastern Ontario Flotilla would be primarily tasked to provide assistance to the various Navy units based in the Ottawa area as well as Canadian Forces Support Unit Ottawa (the formation in charge of all military units and headquarters located in the Ontario sector of the National Capital Region). Given the bilingual nature of most of the region, the flotilla itself would be effectively fully bilingual.
The formation's founding unit is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Carleton, one of the original Naval Reserve units, based out of the Dows Lake Naval Arsenal on the shores of the Rideau Canal south of downtown Ottawa. Effectively the host ship for all naval reservists in the city of Ottawa itself, Carleton would be initially tasked to provide the naval reserve augmentation division to the Halifax-class frigate NCSM Ottawa based out of Esquimalt. Once that crew was off to war, she would expand to have divisions covering various parts of Canada's capital city, based out of new drill halls beside the Riverview Hospital (the Alta Vista Division), in the neighbourhood of Barrhaven (the College Division), the old driving range in Orléans (the Cumberland Division), the former naval radio station of Gloucester south-southeast of downtown (the Gloucester Division), the old village of Stittsville (the Kanata Division), the former CFB Rockcliffe on the shores of the Ottawa River (the Lower Rideau Division) and the Connaught Ranges at Shirleys Bay west of downtown (the West Carleton Division). Carleton would become the host unit of a wide gamut of additional naval reserve forces: The naval reserve augmentation division for HMCS Bytown and Navy Headquarters; the naval reserve augmentation division for HMCS Cougar based out of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt; the naval reserve augmentation divisions for four research units of Defence Research and Development Canada in Ottawa; the commissioning crew of the ice-breaking hospital ship NCHSM Angakkuq; the local naval health services support division HMCS Johns (and all NRADs rising from her to augment forces as far afield as CFB Nanisivik); the rear headquarters for Iqaluit's naval health services support division, HMCS Eeyeekalduk; the flagship of Naval Shore Patrol Group Three, HMCS Fort des Outaouais (and all NRADs rising from her); a fleet reconnaissance team for HMCS Konwatsi'tsiaiénni; the Fleet Diving Unit Lower Ottawa assigned to HMCS Begley in Trenton; the commissioning crew of the patrol icebreaker NCSM Kadlu...and this is all before what Carleton has to do for the flotilla she's assigned to!
Formed to cover the united counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry and Prescott and Russell is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Loyalist, based out of Cornwall. Named in tribute to the United Empire Loyalists who migrated north in the wake of the Revolutionary War to settle in what is today Ontario, she would have divisions based out of Morrisburg, Hawkesbury, Alexandria, Cassleman, Finch and Rockland. As one of the Naval Reserve units located on the American border, Loyalist would run a language school to tutor migrants from the United States in French (as she is a bilingual unit) before running them through basic and trades training. She would also be responsible for helping guard one of the vital parts of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in conjunction with the New York Army National Guard: The Snell and Eisenhower Locks and the Wiley-Dondero Ship Channel that allows vessels to bypass the Long Sault above Cornwall and proceed either to Lake Ontario or Montréal. Given potential talks about building super-sized locks to take in any conceivable ship now being carried out between the Saint Lawrence Seaway Corporation and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Loyalist would no doubt serve as a base unit for such new construction. In addition, the Iroquois Lock in South Dundas on the Canadian side of the border (which has a control dam for hydroelectric power on the New York side) would fall under Loyalist's supervision.
Located upriver in the united county of Leeds and Grenville is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Osborne, based out of Brockville. She gets her name from the namesake of old Leeds County: Francis Osborne, the fifth Duke of Leeds, who was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the time of Upper Canada's founding in 1791. Osborne would form divisions at Prescott, Gananoque, Kemptville and Newboro. The Prescott Division would serve as host unit for both Fleet Maintenance Facility Prescott and the forward location of King's Harbour Master Ottawa (the rear location being at the Orléans Naval Arsenal in Ottawa). The former unit would serve just as a docking facility for ships transiting the Saint Lawrence Seaway, though it would also serve as the first home port of the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Prescott, whose commissioning crew would be trained by the staff at Osborne; Prescott herself would be built at FMF York in Toronto. The latter unit would monitor all maritime traffic in the Seaway from Kingston down to Cornwall, not to mention the lower part of the Rideau Canal from Upper Rideau Lake down to Ottawa as well as the Ottawa River from Ottawa to Montréal. Osborne would also help watch over two points of entry from New York into Ontario: The Thousand Islands Bridge near Gananoque that once connected Interstate 81 to Highway 401 and the Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge connecting New York Highway 812 to Highway 416. Because of this, she would see a lot of American migrants come into her ranks for basic and trades training.
Finally covering the city of Pembroke, the town of Smiths Falls, the counties of Lanark and Renfrew and the southern half of the district of Nipissing would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Madawaska, headquartered at Pembroke. Assigned to act as a general manning pool for the Navy, Madawaska would also provide whatever support she can to the Army base at Petawawa, where one of her divisions would be located. Other divisions of the ship would be based out of Renfrew, Carleton Place, Smiths Falls, Arnprior and Eganville. Madawaska gets her name from the river that flows through the region from the southern end of Algonquin Park to the Ottawa at Arnprior.
Recommissioned and reassigned as the flotilla's communications hub would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Gloucester, based out of her old quarters on Mitch Owens Road (Ottawa Road 8) about five kilometres southeast of the grounds of Canadian Forces Station Leitrim. Gloucester was one of several Navy HFDF stations established during World War Two IOTL, formed originally as a tender to Bytown before being commissioned as an independent unit in 1950. She would continue to serve as the Navy's main training establishment for signal intelligence (today known as communications research) until just after Unification, when her training work was dispatched to CFSCE in Kingston and her operational duties moved northwest to CFS Leitrim. Gloucester would re-assume her training rôle on recommissioning, serving as the primary trades training unit for naval communicators and communication research operators after basic training; also, she would serve as a supplementary support unit to Leitrim. Atop her main station on Mitch Owens Road, she would have supplementary radio sections based at Alexandria, Gananoque and Renfrew.
The flotilla would have five underwater port security divisions assigned to it, patrolling the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the Rideau Canal and the lower Ottawa River. In addition, the Rideau Band of the Eastern Ontario Flotilla would be established as the formation's musical ambassadors.
No warship is assigned to the formation at this time, but given that crews would get the chance to work off NCSM Ottawa, that wouldn't be seen as much of an issue. Also, given that HMC Ships Angakkuq, Kadlu and Prescott would be commissioned from Carleton and Osbourne, there would be additional chances for naval reservists of the flotilla to get out to sea.
Next: The last formation of Naval Reserve Forces Centre as we go north of Cottage Country...!
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Post by pyeknu on May 26, 2019 14:56:17 GMT
And the last formation of Naval Reserve Forces Central...
NORTHERN ONTARIO FLOTILLA/FLOTTILLE DU NORD DE L'ONTARIO
Captain (Navy), Northern Ontario Flotilla/Capitaine de Vaisseau de la Flottille du Nord de l'Ontario (CAPT[N] NONTFLOT/CAPV FLOTNONT)
Headquarters, Eighteenth Maritime Operations Group/Quartier-Général de la Dix-Huitième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (HQ MOG EIGHTEEN/QG 18e GOM)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Port Arthur Naval Arsenal, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Falconbridge/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Falconbridge (HMCS FALCONBRIDGE/NCSM FALCONBRIDGE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Falconbridge Naval Arsenal and Armoury, SUDBURY, Ontario
Naval Radio Section Falconbridge/Section de Radio Navale Falconbridge
Supplementary Radio Section Algoma/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Algoma - SAULT SAINTE MARIE, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Kenora/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Kenora - KENORA, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Nipissing/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Nipissing - NORTH BAY, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Port Arthur/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Port Arthur - Port Arthur Naval Arsenal, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Timiskaming/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Témiscamingue - HAILEYBURY, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Griffon (HMCS GRIFFON)
Headquarters Division - Port Arthur Naval Arsenal, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
Thunder Bay Division
Thunder Bay Division Detachment - Fort William Naval Annex, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
Greenstone Division - GREENSTONE, Ontario
Marathon Division - MARATHON, Ontario
Nipigon Division - NIPIGON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Brûlé (HMCS BRÛLÉ)
Headquarters Division - SAULT SAINTE MARIE, Ontario
Saint Mary Division
Elliot Lake Division - ELLIOT LAKE, Ontario
North Algoma Division - WAWA, Ontario
Thessalon Division - THESSALON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Manitou/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Manitou (HMCS MANITOU/NCSM MANITOU)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - NORTH BAY, Ontario
Lake Nipissing Division/Division du Lac Nipissing
North Timiskaming Division/Division du Nord de Témiscamingue - KIRKLAND LAKE, Ontario
South Timiskaming Division/Division du Sud de Témiscamingue - HAILEYBURY, Ontario
Upper Ottawa Division/Division d'Haut-Outaouais - MATTAWA, Ontario
West Nipissing Division/Division d'Ouest-Nipissing - STURGEON FALLS, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Wanapitei/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Wanapitei (HMCS WANAPITEI/NCSM WANAPITEI)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Ramsey Lake Naval Arsenal, SUDBURY, Ontario
Central Sudbury Division/Division du Centre de Sudbury
District North Division/Division du Nord de District - CHAPLEAU, Ontario
District South Division/Division du Sud de District - ESPANOLA, Ontario
Manitoulin Division/Division de Manitoulin - GORE BAY, Ontario
North Sudbury Division/Division du Nord de Sudbury - Falconbridge Naval Arsenal and Armoury, SUDBURY, Ontario
West Sudbury Division/Division d'Ouest de Sudbury - Copper Cliff Naval Arsenal and Armoury, SUDBURY, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Facility Thunder Bay (FMF THUNDER BAY)
Headquarters Division - Fort William Naval Annex, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Thunder Bay
Fleet Maintenance Division Algoma - SAULT SAINTE MARIE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Kenora - KENORA, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Nipissing - NORTH BAY, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Sudbury - Ramsey Lake Naval Arsenal, SUDBURY, Ontario
King's Harbour Master Thunder Bay (KHM THUNDER BAY)
Headquarters Division - Fort William Naval Annex, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Thunder Bay
Harbour Support Division Marathon - MARATHON, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Michipigoten - WAWA, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Saint Mary's - SAULT SAINTE MARIE, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Spragge - ELLIOT LAKE, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Marathon (UPSD MARATHON)
Headquarters - MARATHON, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Saint Mary's (UPSD SAINT MARY'S)
Headquarters - SAULT SAINTE MARIE, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Spragge (UPSD SPRAGGE)
Headquarters - ELLIOT LAKE, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Timiskaming/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Témiscamingue (UPSD TIMISKAMING/DSPSM TÉMISCAMINGUE)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - HAILEYBURY, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Thunder Bay (UPSD THUNDER BAY)
Headquarters - Fort William Naval Annex, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
Northern Ontario Flotilla Band/Musique de la Flottille du Nord de l'Ontario (NONTF BAND/MUS FNONT)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Port Arthur Naval Arsenal, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nipigon (HMCS NIPIGON) (PCH-420)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - NIPIGON, Ontario
Ship's Home Port - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Manitoulin (HMCS MANITOULIN) (MCMV-716)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - GORE BAY, Ontario
Ship's Home Port (Summer) - Fort William Naval Annex, THUNDER BAY, Ontario
Ship's Home Port (Winter) - SYDNEY, Nova Scotia
Covering the second largest territory within Ontario itself, the Northern Ontario Division would be responsible for all naval reserve activities from west of Thunder Bay all the way east to the Québec border and from the French River and Lake Nipissing north to just beyond Lake Nipigon. The actual border of responsibility between this formation and the Northeast Flotilla assigned to Naval Reserve Forces North is set to have the districts of Rainy River, Kenora and Cochrane covered by the latter division...but such a border is somewhat blurry as various shore units of the Navy in this region would be tasked wherever they may be needed, either to support the Northern Fleet or either the main fleets at Halifax or Esquimalt.
The only pre-Shift unit that exists in this area is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Griffon, based out of the old Port Arthur section of modern day Thunder Bay. One of the second generation of naval reserve units, she was formed as a "half-company" in 1937 and would be commissioned in 1941 during World War Two IOTL. Given the responsibility for setting up naval reserve units and sub-units from Kenora east to Moosonee and down to North Bay, Griffon would eventually become the home naval unit for Thunder Bay District itself; it would have divisions based out of Greenstone (on Highway 11), Marathon (on the shore of Lake Superior on Highway 17) and Nipigon (close to where Highway 11 and 17 merge northeast of Thunder Bay). Griffon would have two main elements in Thunder Bay itself: The primary base on Algoma Street North and a new shore station beside the Thunder Bay Cruise Ship Terminal at the foot of John Street. This would be the home of both Fleet Maintenance Facility Thunder Bay and the King's Harbour Master Thunder Bay. The former unit would take charge of the Heddle Shipyard facilities and (after such are expanded to take in any conceivable size of warship by the personnel of 196 Construction Engineer Regiment) would begin to produce new warships for the Navy. The latter unit would become the maritime traffic manager and tugboat charter facility for the Navy in Lake Superior, the Saint Mary's River and lock system by Sault Sainte Marie and the northern reach of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay; of course, KHM Thunder Bay would coordinate everything with the local American naval and coast guard formations based near Chicago and in Cleveland respectively.
The most vital unit to add onto the flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Brûlé in Sault Sainte Marie, which would become the home naval unit of Algoma District. She gets her name from Étienne Brûlé, the first French explorer to probe beyond the Saint Lawrence River valley in the early Seventeenth Century. Brûlé would establish divisions at Elliot Lake, Wawa and Thessalon to cover the whole of her home district. Atop providing manning pools for the Navy wherever needed, Brûlé would support Area Support Unit Northern Ontario (the detachment of CFB Borden meant to provide more immediate support to 3 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group that patrols the territory north of the arc of Highway 11 from Nipigon to Timmins) and also assist the United States Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers in watching over the various locks in the Saint Marys Falls Canal, especially the ultra-large Poe and MacArthur Locks (the former being 365.7 metres [1200 feet] long, the latter 243.8 metres [800 feet] in length). Talk of expanding the size of the Saint Lawrence Seaway locks and passageways centre on making larger locks using the Poe Lock (named after COL Orlando Poe USA, an engineer from the days of the Civil War) as a potential template. Also located there is the Sault Sainte Marie Canal and lock on the Canadian side of the border, which is mostly meant for pleasure traffic; expanding it to make it an official shipping lane is being considered.
Down Highway 17 from Brûlé would be the home naval unit for the districts of Sudbury and Manitoulin and the city of Greater Sudbury, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Wanapitei. Drawing from such a large catchment population, she would establish her main base on Ramsey Lake in downtown Sudbury, two divisions in other parts of Greater Sudbury in the former towns of Falconbridge and Copper Cliff, the town of Gore Bay on Manitoulin Island and the towns of Chapleau and Espanola to cover the rural parts of Sudbury District. Wanapitei gets her name from the lake of the same name, which was formed thanks to a meteor strike that hit later than the Sudbury meteor that brought tonnes of nickel and other valuable metals and minerals into the region; the name is an Ojibwe word meaning "concave tooth-shaped water", which rather describes the lake's physical shape nicely.
And covering the district of Timiskaming and the northern reach of Nipissing District is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Manitou, headquartered near 22 Wing North Bay north of downtown. Named in tribute to the spiritual and fundamental life force believed to exist in all things as seen by the Algonquian peoples who inhabited most of central and eastern Canada before contact with Europeans, she would have divisions located at Kirkland Lake, Haileybury, Mattawa and Sturgeon Falls. Manitou would very much serve as a general manning pool for the Navy, though she would be also tasked to support 22 Wing.
Connecting the flotilla together would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Falconbridge, the formation's communications hub. Named in tribute to the former Royal Canadian Air Force station in the Falconbridge area of Greater Sudbury which served as part of NORAD's Pinetree Line from 1952-85, Falconbridge the ship would take over the old station site and repurpose it into a naval communications hub. Supplementary radio sections would be based at Sault Sainte Marie, North Bay, Thunder Bay, Haileybury...and also Kenora in Kenora District; this would allow Falconbridge to directly link into the network controlled by her sister unit supporting the Northeast Flotilla, HMCS Churchill.
Assigned to the flotilla would be five underwater port security divisions covering Thunder Bay, Marathon, Sault Sainte Marie, Spragge and Lakes Timiskaming and Nipissing. Also, the Northern Ontario Flotilla Band would be formed to serve as the musical ambassadors of the formation.
To be permanently assigned to the formation would be the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Nipigon and the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessel HMCS Manitoulin; both of these ships would be built at FMF Thunder Bay, with their commissioning crews being raised by Griffon and Wanapitei respectively. While Manitoulin would spend her summer months in Thunder Bay (and winter at FMF Protector in Sydney), Nipigon would be assigned to support the Pacific Fleet and be based out of FMF Fraser's Whalley Annex in Surrey.
Next: The flagship of Naval Reserve Forces Pacific and the Navy in the greater Vancouver region!
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Post by pyeknu on May 29, 2019 22:13:09 GMT
Now shifting to the Pacific coast...
NAVAL RESERVE FORCES PACIFIC/FORCES DE LA RÉSERVE NAVALE (PACIFIQUE)
Commodore, Naval Reserve Forces Pacific/Commodore des Forces de la Réserve Navale (Pacifique) (CMDRE NAVRESPAC/CMDRE RÉSNAVPAC)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Shop Narváez/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Narváez (HMCS NARVÁEZ/NCSM NARVÁEZ)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Naval Radio Section/Section de Radio Navale
Operations Division/Division des Opérations
Naval Engineering Division/Division de Génie Navale
Supply Division/Division d'Appui
Administration Division/Division d'Administration
Sea Training Division/Division d'Entraînement Maritime
As with the other main sectors of the Dominion, the Naval Reserves from Manitoba to the Pacific coast would be united under a single overall commander, who would rank equally to his counterparts in Toronto and Halifax subordinate to the rear admiral in administrative charge of all reservists in the Royal Canadian Navy. However, unlike NAVRESLANT and NAVRESCENT, NAVRESPAC would be a mostly land-bound formation. As stated before, Canada didn't luck out when it came to their Pacific coast; thanks to the sheer lines of mountains that run through British Columbia in a generally northwest-southeast direction - which only allows two major areas of lowland that would allow access to the open ocean from other parts of the mainland (the Fraser Valley near the border with Washington and the Skeena Valley near the border with Alaska) - whatever warships would be assigned to the flotillas under the command of the commodore at Burrard Inlet would have to be permanently based at two locations: Either Prince Rupert Harbour docked at Digby Island or in any of the several harbours in and around Vancouver. Of course, with a third reserve dockyard made available at Nanaimo, there would be enough spaces to not only store all the warships assigned to NAVRESPAC, but those warships of NAVRESCENT and NAVRESNOR which would be automatically detailed to the Pacific Fleet in time of mobilization.
Serving as the "flagship" of the whole formation would be His Majesty's Canadian Shop Narváez, which would take up quarters at a new complex on the north shore of Burrard Inlet east of the Second Narrows Bridge in the district municipality of North Vancouver; this site would be constructed by personnel from 211 Construction Engineer Regiment (American Rangers), which would be raised in Surrey and other parts of the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia. Set up in the same fashion as other force flagships such as HMC Ships Citadel and Yonge, Narváez would be established as a tender to HMCS Discovery across the harbour in Vancouver itself before being commissioned as an independent unit. Her name hails from that of Spanish explorer José María Narváez, the first European to explore Burrard Inlet in 1791.
And as for its main seagoing formation...
FRASER VALLEY FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Fraser Valley Flotilla/Headquarters, Twenty-first Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] FRASERFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY-ONE)
Headquarters - Stanley Park Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Aldergrove (HMCS ALDERGROVE)
Headquarters Division - Aldergrove Naval Annex, LANGLEY DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, British Columbia
Naval Radio Section Aldergrove
Naval Radio Training Section West
Supplementary Radio Section Burrard - Stanley Park Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Delta - Ladner Naval Arsenal and Militia Annex, DELTA, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Fraser West - ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Fraser East - HOPE, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Georgia - Park Royal Naval Annex, WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Qathet - POWELL RIVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Discovery (HMCS DISCOVERY)
Headquarters Division - Stanley Park Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Central Vancouver Division
Central Vancouver Division Detachment - Waterfront Road Naval Annex, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Indian Arm Division - Belcarra Naval Annex, BELCARRA, British Columbia
North Vancouver Division - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Qathet Division - POWELL RIVER, British Columbia
South Vancouver Division - Mitchell Island Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Squamish-Lillooet Division - SQUAMISH, British Columbia
Sunshine Coast Division - SECHELT, British Columbia
University Division - Jericho Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
West Vancouver Division - Park Royal Naval Annex, WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Coquihalla (HMCS COQUIHALLA)
Headquarters Division - ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia
Abbotsford Division
Chilliwack Division - CHILLIWACK, British Columbia
Hope Division - HOPE, British Columbia
Kent Division - HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, British Columbia
Mission Division - MISSION, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Delta (HMCS DELTA)
Headquarters Division - Ladner Naval Arsenal and Militia Annex, DELTA, British Columbia
South Arm Division
Central Surrey Division - 56 Avenue Naval Arsenal, SURREY, British Columbia
East Surrey Division - Guildford Naval Arsenal, SURREY, British Columbia
Langley Division - LANGLEY, British Columbia
Langley Division Detachment Aldergrove - Aldergrove Naval Annex, LANGLEY DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, British Columbia
South Surrey Division - WHITE ROCK, British Columbia
Whalley Division - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Steveston (HMCS STEVESTON)
Headquarters Division - Steveston Harbour Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND, British Columbia
South Lulu Island Division
Coquitlam Division - COQUITLAM, British Columbia
Meadowns Division - MAPLE RIDGE, British Columbia
New Westminster Division - NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia
North Burnaby Division - Westridge Naval Arsenal, BURNABY, British Columbia
Sea Island Division - Burkeville Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND, British Columbia
South Burnaby Division - Deer Lake Naval Arsenal, BURNABY, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Facility Fraser (FMF FRASER)
Headquarters Division - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Whalley
Fleet Maintenance Division Guildford - Guildford Naval Arsenal, SURREY, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Langley - LANGLEY, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Newton - 56 Avenue Naval Arsenal, SURREY, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division White Rock - WHITE ROCK, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Facility Detachment Richmond - Steveston Harbour Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Steveston
Fleet Maintenance Division Coquitlam - COQUITLAM, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division North Burnaby - Westridge Naval Arsenal, BURNABY, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division South Burnaby - Deer Lake Naval Arsenal, BURNABY, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Facility Detachment North Vancouver - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division North Vancouver
Fleet Maintenance Division Belcarra - Belcarra Naval Annex, BELCARRA, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Maple Ridge - MAPLE RIDGE, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Facility Detachment Vancouver - Waterfront Road Naval Annex, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Vancouver Centre
Fleet Maintenance Division Vancouver Quadra - Jericho Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Vancouver South - Mitchell Island Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Detachment West Vancouver - Park Royal Naval Annex, WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division West Vancouver
King's Harbour Master Vancouver (KHM VANCOUVER)
Headquarters Division - Stanley Park Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Vancouver Centre
Harbour Support Division Abbotsford - ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Boundary Bay - WHITE ROCK, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Chilliwack - CHILLIWACK, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Guildford - Guildford Naval Arsenal, SURREY, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Langley - LANGLEY, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Lulu Island - Steveston Harbour Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division New Westminster - NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division North Vancouver - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Squamish - SQUAMISH, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Sunshine Coast - SECHELT, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Vancouver Quadra - Jericho Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Vancouver South - Mitchell Island Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division West Vancouver - Park Royal Naval Annex, WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Whalley - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Chilliwack (UPSD CHILLIWACK)
Headquarters - CHILLIWACK, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Delta (UPSD DELTA)
Headquarters - Ladner Naval Arsenal and Militia Annex, DELTA, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Langley (UPSD LANGLEY)
Headquarters - LANGLEY, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Lulu Island (UPSD LULU ISLAND)
Headquarters - Steveston Harbour Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Mission (UPSD MISSION)
Headquarters - MISSION, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division North Vancouver (UPSD NORTH VANCOUVER)
Headquarters - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia<
Underwater Port Security Division Powell River (UPSD POWELL RIVER)
Headquarters - POWELL RIVER, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Sea Island (UPSD SEA ISLAND)
Headquarters - Burkeville Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Squamish (UPSD SQUAMISH)
Headquarters - SQUAMISH, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Surrey (UPSD SURREY)
Headquarters - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Vancouver (UPSD VANCOUVER)
Headquarters - Waterfront Road Naval Annex, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division West Vancouver (UPSD WEST VANCOUVER)
Headquarters - Park Royal Naval Annex, WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Training Division Belcarra (UPSTD BELCARRA)
Headquarters - Belcarra Naval Annex, BELCARRA, British Columbia
The Lion's Gate Band of the Fraser Valley Flotilla (LION'S GATE BAND)
Headquarters - Stanley Park Naval Arsenal, VANCOUVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fortitude (AOR-516) (HMCS FORTITUDE)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia
The formation established in and around Canada's third largest metropolitan area after Toronto and Montréal - to say anything of the Dominion's main West Coast seaport - the Fraser Valley Flotilla would be given a tonne of tasks atop simply recruiting for the regular navy as well as preparing new ships' crews and assisting in the defence of the greater Vancouver area from potential external threats, especially from imperial Japan and the Soviet Union...never mind the potential spillover issues of a much more conservative America with the border not twenty kilometres from downtown Vancouver!
Of course, the flotilla would have to arise from somewhere, as did all its sister formations elsewhere. For the Fraser Valley Flotilla, that was thanks to one of the original Naval Reserve units from the 1920s, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Discovery. Where once she would have recruited from all of mainland British Columbia given she was the only unit of her type in the province beyond HMCS Malahat in Victoria on Vancouver Island, after the Shift, Discovery would be restricted to just the city of Vancouver itself plus all the communities on the north shore of Burrard Inlet from North Vancouver District Municipality west to the Strait of Georgia, as well as the regional districts of Sunshine Coast, Squamish-Lillooet and Qathet (which is normally spelled with a small "q"), covering a coastline frontage from the grounds of the University of British Columbia west of Vancouver proper to the north and west to an area due north of CFB Comox. Of course, like her sister unit HMCS York in Toronto, Discovery would be the home or host unit of a plethora of new units assigned to various parts of the Navy and its supporting commands and groups, chief of which is raising the naval reserve augmentation team for her hometown's namesake frigate HMCS Vancouver, to say anything of forming the commissioning crew of the converted container ship MV Obelix when she was transformed into HMCS Fortitude to serve as the Pacific Fleet's dedicated replenishment ship until the commissioning of HMC Ships Provider and Presentor after they were built at Seaspan's yards in North Vancouver.
One of the units that Discovery would strive to form would be Fleet Maintenance Facility Fraser, the literal west coast repair and construction yard of the whole of the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves. With headquarters in Surrey on the shores of the south arm of the Fraser River, FMF Fraser would have annex dockyards located at Steveston on the north shore of the south branch of the Fraser downriver from the facility's main yards, as well as the Burrard Inlet annex where Narváez is based at, atop a dock near Canada Place on the Vancouver waterfront near where Discovery is headquartered on Deadman's Island, plus a final location at Park Royal in West Vancouver safely beyond the Lion's Gate Bridge. With all these locations available, all Naval Reserve ships to be directly seconded to the Pacific Fleet who would have crews come down the mainline of the Trans-Canada Highway from as far east as Ontario would be based. Of course, construction slips would be erected by members of 211 Regiment at the Whalley Naval Annex and the Burrard Inlet Naval Annex, with Seaspan to take control of them in peacetime.
Controlling naval traffic in this area and assisting with would be King's Harbour Master Fraser, which would be responsible for all traffic in the Strait of Georgia from Powell River to the north south to Hero Strait passing through the San Juan Islands that separate the Strait of Georgia from the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Save, of course, for the area around Nanaimo and the testing zones at the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental Test Ranges at Nanoose Bay.
Discovery's three main tenders to aid in recruiting and mobilizing new ship's companies would cover the remainder of the Metro Vancouver Regional District and the Fraser Valley Regional District to the east. Covering Delta, Surrey, White Rock and both the town and district of Langley would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Delta. Atop serving as the primary host unit for FMF Fraser, Delta would also serve as the primary host unit for the Canadian Forces Naval Fleet School which would be erected at the Ladner Naval Arsenal and Militia Annex overlooking the Fraser River estuary; the new naval arsenal would also host 85 Field Artillery Battery of the 15th Vancouver Field Artillery Regiment, RCA. To recruit from New Westminster, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Steveston. She would get her name from the old town of Steveston which would be quite familiar to fans of various televisions shows from Stargate SG-1 to Smallville; the area served as a perfect film site to depict small town life for years. And finally, there would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Coquihalla, which would be the home naval unit of the Fraser Valley Regional District, with headquarters at Abbotsford. To connect it all with secure naval communications, the reserve side of the naval radio sections located in Langley and Masqui would be effectively recommissioned as His Majesty's Canadian Ship Aldergrove, which would also provide the main training unit for all naval communicators and communication research operators west of the Lakehead.
The flotilla would be assigned a total of TWELVE underwater port security divisions to cover all the fjords and bays in the region, not to mention the navigable part of the Fraser River to just below Chilliwack. Given how much the reserve elements of the Navy would concentrate on Vancouver, it would be seen as necessary. Of course, there would also be the Underwater Port Security Training Division Belcarra in the like-named town near the inner reaches of Burrard Inlet, which would be the primary port inspection diver facility for the Pacific region. And while Fortitude would be the only ship permanently assigned to the flotilla, the formation would also be responsible for building and providing the commissioning crew of the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Chilliwack; Coquihalla would be effective host ship for that warship's plank owners.
To say anything of many other ships to eventually flesh out the regular and reserve elements of the Pacific Fleet...!
Next: The Naval Reserves on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii and the northern British Columbia coast!
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Post by pyeknu on May 31, 2019 11:38:05 GMT
And now crossing the Strait of Georgia...
WESTERN ISLANDS FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Western Islands Flotilla/Headquarters, Nineteenth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] WESTISFLOT/HQ MOG NINETEEN)
Headquarters - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Masset (HMCS MASSET)
Headquarters Division - MASSET, British Columbia
Naval Radio Section Masset
Supplementary Radio Section Capital - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Mount Waddington - PORT HARDY, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Nanaimo - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Ocean Falls - BELLA COOLA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Malahat (HMCS MALAHAT)
Headquarters Division - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
Capital Division
Alberni-Clayoquot Division - PORT ALBERNI, British Columbia
Cowichan Valley Division - DUNCAN, British Columbia
North Saanich Division - SIDNEY, British Columbia
Royal Roads Division - Naden Barracks, ESQUIMALT, British Columbia
South Saanich Division - SAANICH, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Bastion (HMCS BASTION)
Headquarters Division - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
Nanaimo Division
Comox Valley Division - Canadian Forces Base Comox, COMOX, British Columbia
Mount Waddington Division - PORT HARDY, British Columbia
Nanoose Bay Division - Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges, NANOOSE BAY, British Columbia
Parksville Division - PARKSVILLE, British Columbia
Strathcona Division - CAMPBELL RIVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Chatham (HMCS CHATHAM)
Headquarters Division - TERRACE, British Columbia
Kitimat Division
Central Coast Division - BELLA COOLA, British Columbia
Haida Gwaii Division - MASSET, British Columbia
Skeena Division - Digby Barracks, PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Facility Nanaimo (FMF NANAIMO)
Headquarters Division - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Nanaimo
Fleet Maintenance Division Capital - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Comox - Canadian Forces Base Comox, COMOX, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Cowichan - DUNCAN, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Saanich - SAANICH, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Strathcona - CAMPBELL RIVER, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Stitkine - TERRACE, British Columbia
King's Harbour Master Nanaimo (KHM NANAIMO)
Headquarters Division - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Nanaimo
Harbour Support Division Alberni - PORT ALBERNI, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Comox - Canadian Forces Base Comox, COMOX, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Cowichan - DUNCAN, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Esquimalt - Naden Barracks, ESQUIMALT, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Haida Gwaii - MASSET, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Victoria - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
Submarine Airmobile Assistance Team Victoria (SAAT VICTORIA)
Headquarters - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Campbell River (UPSD CAMPBELL RIVER)
Headquarters - CAMPBELL RIVER, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Comox (UPSD COMOX)
Headquarters - Canadian Forces Base Comox, COMOX, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division James Bay (UPSD JAMES BAY)
Headquarters - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Nanaimo (UPSD NANAIMO)
Headquarters - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Nanoose Bay (UPSD NANOOSE BAY)
Headquarters - PARKSVILLE, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Prince Rupert (UPSD PRINCE RUPERT)
Headquarters - Digby Barracks, PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Sidney (UPSD SIDNEY)
Headquarters - SIDNEY, British Columbia
The Western Islands Flotilla Band (WESTISLES BAND)
Headquarters - James Bay Naval Arsenal, VICTORIA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Skeena (PCH-402) (HMCS SKEENA)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - TERRACE, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - Digby Barracks, PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Moresby (MCMV-713) (HMCS MORESBY)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - MASSET, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - Digby Barracks, PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Graham (MCMV-714) (HMCS GRAHAM)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - MASSET, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - Digby Barracks, PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Quadra (MCMV-727) (HMCS QUADRA)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Canadian Forces Base Comox, COMOX, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nanaimo (MM-702) (HMCS NANAIMO)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - Newcastle Island Naval Arsenal, NANAIMO, British Columbia
Formed from volunteers not only from Vancouver Island but the mainland element of the Mount Waddington Regional District as well as the mainland regional districts of Central Coast, Kitimat-Sitkine and North Coast (formerly the Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District) including the islands of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), the Western Islands Flotilla would be the other effective seagoing element of the Naval Reserves in the Pacific region. With headquarters in the capital of British Columbia and covering practically most of the province's open ocean coastline, the flotilla would be the the primary reaction force that would reinforce the active Pacific Fleet in any emergency.
The flagship and founding ship of the formation would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Malahat based out of the naval arsenal on James Bay in Victoria. One of the pre-Shift naval reserve units that had been first formed in World War Two IOTL, Malahat would be tasked immediately to form the naval reserve augmentation division for the namesake submarine of British Columbia's capital city. Of course, this would also see the formation of the Submarine Airmobile Assistance Team Victoria, which would be the West Coast's front-line submariner rescue unit. Atop providing naval reserve augmentation staff to the active military units at CFB Esquimalt, Malahat would also establish the Western Islands Flotilla Band, which would be the formation's main musical ambassadors. Where once she recruited from all of Vancouver Island, Malahat would be limited after the Shift to the regional districts of Capital, Alberni-Clayoquot and Cowichan Valley.
Recommissioned in the city of Terrace well east of her old home port would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Chatham, the naval reserve unit for the northern reaches of the British Columbia coastline, covering from the Alaska border south to the isolated fishing village of Bella Coola, including the Haida Gwaii archipelago. Chatham's history sadly reflects the low population of the times before the Shift. She was first formed as a half-company of the original Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1923, commissioned under her current name in 1942 and remained on the active rolls of the Naval Reserve divisions until the big cuts in the Forces would hit in 1964. Recommissioned after the Shift as a tender to HMCS Discovery in Vancouver, Chatham would be re-based at Terrance on the shores of the Skeena River a hundred and fifty-kilometres up Highway 16 (the Yellowknife Highway) from her old home port of Prince Rupert. Along with Terrace and Prince Rupert, Chatham would have divisions based out of Masset on Graham Island (Kiis Gwaay) and down south in Bella Coola.
Covering the northern and central reaches of Vancouver Island and the mainland sector of the Mount Waddington Regional District would be the flotilla's third operational unit, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Bastion, based at a new naval arsenal on Newcastle Island overlooking Nanaimo Harbour close to where the island route of Highway 1 (the Trans-Canada Highway) connects to the ferry at Departure Bay for the transit to the mainland. Responsible primarily for providing the naval reserve augmentation division for her home port's namesake coastal patrol ship, Bastion would also support both 19 Wing at Comox and the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental Test Ranges just up the coast from Nanaimo itself on the shores of Nanoose Bay. To prevent crowding of either Esquimalt Harbour or Victoria Harbour with naval reserve warships, Bastion was also made the host unit of both Fleet Maintenance Facility Nanaimo and King's Harbour Master Nanaimo. The former unit would have a detachment at CFB Prince Rupert to help reinforce FMF Cape Breton's local facility as well as managing the main docks at Newcastle Island. The latter unit would be responsible for all maritime traffic in the area of Nanaimo Harbour and the eastern coast of Vancouver Island save for the area around Nanoose Bay; in that, KHM Nanaimo would coordinate with CFMETR to ensure that any civilian traffic doesn't stray into the Whisky-Golf testing range. Given the needs of the United States Navy to work out the kinks of the Mark 14 submarine-launched torpedo, the range would be a very busy place throughout 1940 and 1941.
Also recommissioned to serve as the flotilla's main communications hub would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Masset, which would be headquartered at the site of the former Canadian Forces signal intelligence station on the northern shore of Graham Island near the village of the same name where the headquarters of the Council of the Haida Nation is located. While the full-time facility would be taken over from Canadian Forces Station Leitrim by HMCS Maple to assist in intelligence gathering for the Pacific Fleet, the reserve element of the station would recommission as her own vessel under the name Masset. Atop reinforcing Maple's operation at Masset, Masset the ship would have supplementary radio sections connecting the Western Island Flotilla's far-flung units at Victoria, Nanaimo, Port Hardy and Bella Coola.
Assigned to the flotilla would be seven underwater port security divisions covering the major harbours in the flotilla's area of operations. Finally, the flotilla would be tasked to provide the commissioning crews of the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Skeena as well as the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessels HMC Ships Moresby, Graham and Quadra; all four ships would be built at FMF Fraser's yards in and around Vancouver. Also, the flotilla would be responsible for preparing the commissioning crews and later the naval reserve augmentation divisions of the Chambly-class frigates HMC Ships Prince Rupert, Alberni, Esquimalt and Clayoquot, which would also be built by FMF Fraser as well as Seaspan's North Vancovuer yards.
Next: We go inland...!
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Post by pyeknu on Jun 9, 2019 21:34:48 GMT
After a little hiatus while I've had to deal with computer issues, let's get back to the Naval Reserve ORBATs...
INTERIOR FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Interior Flotilla/Headquarters, Twenty-second Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] INTFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caledonia (HMCS CALEDONIA)
Headquarters Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Naval Radio Section Fort George
Supplementary Radio Section Cariboo - WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Kootenay - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Okanagan - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Thompson - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pandosy (HMCS PANDOSY)
Headquarters Division - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Kelowna East Division
Kelowna West Division - WEST KELOWNA, British Columbia
Okanagan East Division - LAKE COUNTRY, British Columbia
Okanagan South Division - PENTICTON, British Columbia
Okanagan Summerland Division - SUMMERLAND, British Columbia
Similkameen River Division - OLIVER, British Columbia
Similkameen Valley Division - PRINCETON, British Columbia
West Boundary Division - GREENWOOD, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fisherville (HMCS FISHERVILLE)
Headquarters Division - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Cranbrook Division
East Boundary Division - TRAIL, British Columbia
East Kootenay Division - FERNIE, British Columbia
Hot Springs Division - RADIUM HOT SPRINGS, British Columbia
Kootenay Lake South Division - CRESTON, British Columbia
Lower Arrow Division - CASTLEGAR, British Columbia
North Kootenay Division - NEW DENVER, British Columbia
West Arm Division - NELSON, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nechako (HMCS NECHAKO)
Headquarters Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Upper Fraser Division
East Bulkley Division - VANDERHOOF, British Columbia
Fort George East Division - MACKENZIE, British Columbia
Middle Cariboo Division - WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia
North Cariboo Division - QUESNEL, British Columbia
West Bulkley Division - SMITHERS, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nicola (HMCS NICOLA)
Headquarters Division - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Middle Thompson Division
Nicola Valley Division - MERRITT, British Columbia
North Thompson Division - CLEARWATER, British Columbia
South Cariboo Division - 100 MILE HOUSE, British Columbia
West Thompson Division - LOGAN LAKE, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Shuswap (HMCS SHUSWAP)
Headquarters Division - VERNON, British Columbia
Okanagan North Division
Kalamalka Division - COLDSTREAM, British Columbia
Lower Shuswap Division - SALMON ARM, British Columbia
Middle Shuswap Division - ENDERBY, British Columbia
Upper Columbia Division - REVELSTOKE, British Columbia
Upper Shuswap Division - ARMSTRONG, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-two (FMG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Thompson
Fleet Maintenance Division Fort George - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Okanagan - OLIVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Group Twenty-two (HSG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters Division - VERNON, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Okanagan
Harbour Support Division Cariboo - 100 MILE HOUSE, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Kootenay - NELSON, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Kamloops (UPSD KAMLOOPS)
Headquarters - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Kelowna (UPSD KELOWNA)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Quesnel (UPSD QUESNEL)
Headquarters - QUESNEL, British Columbia
The Interior Flotilla Band (INTFLOT BAND)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fraser (HMCS FRASER) (PCH-404)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Kootenay (HMCS KOOTENAY) (PCH-407)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Columbia (HMCS COLUMBIA) (PCH-412)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - REVELSTOKE, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
With the population it possesses, British Columbia certainly deserved to have more than two naval reserve units in HMC Ships Discovery and Malahat; save for the metropolitan Vancouver region and Vancouver Island, there was no other location for would-be sailors to muster and prepare to head out to sea. Fortunately with the Shift, the Naval Reserves got the chance to press into the interior of the province, setting up an entire flotilla of naval reserve units that would form a large base of part-time sailors and help commission several future major vessels in the Royal Canadian Navy as the service navigates through the rough waters of the 1940s.
All units of the Interior Flotilla would be tenders of Discovery in Vancouver before commissioning. The primary unit of the new flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pandosy, which is based in Kelowna, British Columbia's seventh largest city and the core of the third largest metropolitan area in the province beyond metropolitan Vancouver and Victoria. She is named in tribute to Monsignor Jean-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Félix Pandosy, a Catholic priest from Marseille who helped organize the first European settlement in the British Columbia interior with the Okanagan Mission in 1859 thanks to the blessings of the Hudson's Bay Company. Tasked to recruit from the regional districts of Central Okanagan and Okanagan-Similkameen, Pandosy would have divisions located in the cities and municipalities of West Kelowna, Pendicton, Lake Country, Summerland, Oliver, Princeton and Greenwood...and no, that last location is not the RCAF base in Nova Scotia! Like other Naval Reserve units with catchment territories on the border with the United States, Pandosy would also augment the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency in securing their sector of the 49th Parallel North, plus also assist in training American migrants who come to Canada seeking a better place to live who are willing to serve in the Armed Forces. Pandosy would serve as the mother ship for the commissioning crew of the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Okanagan, which will be constructed at Fleet Maintenance Facility Fraser as soon as dock space is available.
Established to recruit from the regional districts of Central Kootenay, East Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary covering British Columbia's southeastern corner would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fisherville, which is headquartered at Cranbrook. Another Naval Reserve unit who would have auxiliary duties in helping the RCMP and the CBSA keep their sector of the international border secure, Fisherville would also be the mother ship for the commissioning crew of the Superior-class attack submarine HMCS/M Emerald; the plank owners of the eighth of Canada's first ever indigenous-designed submarine class will be able to get loads of experience off HMC Submarines Victoria and Chicoutimi before boarding their own ship in the mid-1940s at current projections. Named in tribute to a 1860s era boom-to-bust gold rush town not so far from Cranbrook off Highway 95, Fisherville would have the headquarters division and the Cranbrook Division in Cranbrook itself, with detachment divisions at Trail, Fernie, Radium Hot Springs, Creston, Castlegar, New Denver and Nelson. Fisherville would serve eventually as mother ship for the crew of the Saguenay-class corvette HMCS Kootenay when she is built at FMF Fraser; said ship would be based at the docks in West Vancouver to await her crew when required.
Covering the regional district of Thompson-Nicola and the southern half of the regional district of Cariboo would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nicola, headquarters in Kamloops on the Trans-Canada Highway mainline (British Columbia Highway 1) halfway between Vancouver and the Alberta border. The ship herself is named in tribute to the grand chief of the Okanagan peoples in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, Hwistesmetxe'qen (also known as N'kwala), who was responsible for mediating peace between the local First Nations and gold prospectors exploring the region in the 1850s and 1860s. Beyond her headquarters and Middle Thompson division at the city at the confluence of two branches of the Thompson River, Nicola would also have divisions based at Merritt, Clearwater, 100 Mile House and Logan Lake. Atop recruiting personnel for the Regular Navy as well as naval reserve augmentation drafts to ships under the Interior Flotilla's administrative control, Nicola would serve as the mother ship to the personnel assigned to Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-two, a mobile group of maritime engineers which would serve as a manning augmentation pool that would deploy to FMF Fraser in metropolitan Vancouver to augment the shore staff there whenever required.
Calling the regional districts of North Okanagan and Columbia-Shuswap home would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Shuswap, headquartered in Vernon alongside her main tender unit, Harbour Support Group Twenty-two, which would be a manning pool of sailors ready to augment the staff of King's Harbour Master Fraser to allow rotation of support craft crews whenever required. Shuswap gets her name from the lake of the same name located in the Rocky Mountains that ultimately serves as the source point of water for the southern branch of the Thompson River flowing through Kamloops; the term itself comes from an Anglicization of the word Secwépemc, the name of the local First Nations tribe that lived in the area. Beyond her headquarters and Okanagan North division, Shuswap would have divisions based out of Coldstream, Salmon Arm, Enderby, Revelstoke and Armstrong. Beyond supporting the staff of HSG 22, Shuswap would also be the mother ship of the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Columbia, which would be built at FMF Fraser and, when not deployed, would be docked alongside her sistership Kootenay at the West Vancouver naval reserve dockyard.
The final operational unit of the formation is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nechako, based out of Prince George at the intersection of the Yellowhead branch of the Trans-Canada Highway (British Columbia Highway 16) and the Cariboo Highway (Highway 97) near the geographic centre of the province. Recruiting from the northern half of the regional district of Cariboo and all of the regional districts of Fraser-Fort George and Buckley-Nechako, Nechako herself gets her name from the like-named river, a tributary of the Fraser River (the two meet at Prince George); the name itself comes from the Dakeł (Carrier) term netsha koh ("big river"). Nechako would be responsible for organizing training divisions not just in the largest city of northern British Columbia, but also at Vanderhoof, Mackenzie, Williams Lake, Quesnel and Smithers. Nechako's main duties atop helping with augmenting the active ships of the Navy with trained personnel would be to prepare naval reserve augmentation drafts for Canadian Forces Base Prince Rupert at the western end of Highway 16 as well as be the mother ship to the commissioning crews of both the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Athabaskan and the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Fraser; once the latter is commissioned, she would be based at Prince Rupert given how close that is to where her naval reservists would muster to train.
Tying all the units together would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caledonia, the flotilla's main communications hub. Sharing the same headquarters naval arsenal as Nechako at Prince Rupert, Caledonia would have supplementary radio sections based at Willams Lake, Cranbrook, Kelowna and Kamloops; due to the high mountains that cover the region, the officers and sailors of Caledonia would become quite expert in both satellite relay communications as well as long-range very low frequency and ultra low frequency transmission. This would allow personnel assigned to her to help in the establishment of coded submarine transmissions over the years; up-time, the submarines of major powers such as America and Russia made use of UHF and VHF transmissions since such could easily penetrate through the planet and through the oceans to get messages to their intended recipients. Caledonia gets her name ultimately from the old Roman name for Scotland; it was applied to the fur-trading district established by the Hudson's Bay Company to cover the north-central portions of the modern province of British Columbia.
Atop those units, the Interior Flotilla would have three deployable underwater port security divisions at Kamloops, Kelowna and Quesnel, all of them making use of local lakes (such as Okanagan Lake) to train before getting the chance to work on the Pacific coast; they would also have access to make use of the planned Cormorant-class diving tender patrol ships once they are commissioned. Finally, the Interior Flotilla Band would serve as the formation's musical ambassadors.
As noted above, the three ships permanently assigned to the flotilla's operational control would be the Saguenay-class corvettes HMC Ships Fraser, Columbia and Kootenay, with the former based out of Prince Rupert and the latter two deploying from West Vancouver.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 10, 2019 8:56:28 GMT
After a little hiatus while I've had to deal with computer issues, let's get back to the Naval Reserve ORBATs...
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INTERIOR FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Interior Flotilla/Headquarters, Twenty-second Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] INTFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caledonia (HMCS CALEDONIA)
Headquarters Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Naval Radio Section Fort George
Supplementary Radio Section Cariboo - WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Kootenay - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Okanagan - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Thompson - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pandosy (HMCS PANDOSY)
Headquarters Division - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Kelowna East Division
Kelowna West Division - WEST KELOWNA, British Columbia
Okanagan East Division - LAKE COUNTRY, British Columbia
Okanagan South Division - PENTICTON, British Columbia
Okanagan Summerland Division - SUMMERLAND, British Columbia
Similkameen River Division - OLIVER, British Columbia
Similkameen Valley Division - PRINCETON, British Columbia
West Boundary Division - GREENWOOD, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fisherville (HMCS FISHERVILLE)
Headquarters Division - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Cranbrook Division
East Boundary Division - TRAIL, British Columbia
East Kootenay Division - FERNIE, British Columbia
Hot Springs Division - RADIUM HOT SPRINGS, British Columbia
Kootenay Lake South Division - CRESTON, British Columbia
Lower Arrow Division - CASTLEGAR, British Columbia
North Kootenay Division - NEW DENVER, British Columbia
West Arm Division - NELSON, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nechako (HMCS NECHAKO)
Headquarters Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Upper Fraser Division
East Bulkley Division - VANDERHOOF, British Columbia
Fort George East Division - MACKENZIE, British Columbia
Middle Cariboo Division - WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia
North Cariboo Division - QUESNEL, British Columbia
West Bulkley Division - SMITHERS, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nicola (HMCS NICOLA)
Headquarters Division - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Middle Thompson Division
Nicola Valley Division - MERRITT, British Columbia
North Thompson Division - CLEARWATER, British Columbia
South Cariboo Division - 100 MILE HOUSE, British Columbia
West Thompson Division - LOGAN LAKE, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Shuswap (HMCS SHUSWAP)
Headquarters Division - VERNON, British Columbia
Okanagan North Division
Kalamalka Division - COLDSTREAM, British Columbia
Lower Shuswap Division - SALMON ARM, British Columbia
Middle Shuswap Division - ENDERBY, British Columbia
Upper Columbia Division - REVELSTOKE, British Columbia
Upper Shuswap Division - ARMSTRONG, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-two (FMG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Thompson
Fleet Maintenance Division Fort George - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Okanagan - OLIVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Group Twenty-two (HSG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters Division - VERNON, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Okanagan
Harbour Support Division Cariboo - 100 MILE HOUSE, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Kootenay - NELSON, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Kamloops (UPSD KAMLOOPS)
Headquarters - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Kelowna (UPSD KELOWNA)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Quesnel (UPSD QUESNEL)
Headquarters - QUESNEL, British Columbia
The Interior Flotilla Band (INTFLOT BAND)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fraser (HMCS FRASER) (PCH-404)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Kootenay (HMCS KOOTENAY) (PCH-407)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Columbia (HMCS COLUMBIA) (PCH-412)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - REVELSTOKE, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
With the population it possesses, British Columbia certainly deserved to have more than two naval reserve units in HMC Ships Discovery and Malahat; save for the metropolitan Vancouver region and Vancouver Island, there was no other location for would-be sailors to muster and prepare to head out to sea. Fortunately with the Shift, the Naval Reserves got the chance to press into the interior of the province, setting up an entire flotilla of naval reserve units that would form a large base of part-time sailors and help commission several future major vessels in the Royal Canadian Navy as the service navigates through the rough waters of the 1940s.
All units of the Interior Flotilla would be tenders of Discovery in Vancouver before commissioning. The primary unit of the new flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pandosy, which is based in Kelowna, British Columbia's seventh largest city and the core of the third largest metropolitan area in the province beyond metropolitan Vancouver and Victoria. She is named in tribute to Monsignor Jean-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Félix Pandosy, a Catholic priest from Marseille who helped organize the first European settlement in the British Columbia interior with the Okanagan Mission in 1859 thanks to the blessings of the Hudson's Bay Company. Tasked to recruit from the regional districts of Central Okanagan and Okanagan-Similkameen, Pandosy would have divisions located in the cities and municipalities of West Kelowna, Pendicton, Lake Country, Summerland, Oliver, Princeton and Greenwood...and no, that last location is not the RCAF base in Nova Scotia! Like other Naval Reserve units with catchment territories on the border with the United States, Pandosy would also augment the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency in securing their sector of the 49th Parallel North, plus also assist in training American migrants who come to Canada seeking a better place to live who are willing to serve in the Armed Forces. Pandosy would serve as the mother ship for the commissioning crew of the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Okanagan, which will be constructed at Fleet Maintenance Facility Fraser as soon as dock space is available.
Established to recruit from the regional districts of Central Kootenay, East Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary covering British Columbia's southeastern corner would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fisherville, which is headquartered at Cranbrook. Another Naval Reserve unit who would have auxiliary duties in helping the RCMP and the CBSA keep their sector of the international border secure, Fisherville would also be the mother ship for the commissioning crew of the Superior-class attack submarine HMCS/M Emerald; the plank owners of the eighth of Canada's first ever indigenous-designed submarine class will be able to get loads of experience off HMC Submarines Victoria and Chicoutimi before boarding their own ship in the mid-1940s at current projections. Named in tribute to a 1860s era boom-to-bust gold rush town not so far from Cranbrook off Highway 95. Atop the headquarters division and the Cranbrook Division in Cranbrook itself, Fisherville would have detachments at Trail, Fernie, Radium Hot Springs, Creston, Castlegar, New Denver and Nelson. Fisherville would serve eventually as mother ship for the crew of the Saguenay-class corvette HMCS Kootenay when she is built at FMF Fraser; said ship would be based at the docks in West Vancouver to await her crew when required.
Covering the regional district of Thompson-Nicola and the southern half of the regional district of Cariboo would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nicola, headquarters in Kamloops on the Trans-Canada Highway mainline (British Columbia Highway 1) halfway between Vancouver and the Alberta border. The ship herself is named in tribute to the grand chief of the Okanagan peoples in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, Hwistesmetxe'qen (also known as N'kwala), who was responsible for mediating peace between the local First Nations and gold prospectors exploring the region in the 1850s and 1860s. Beyond her headquarters and Middle Thompson division at the city at the confluence of two branches of the Thompson River, Nicola would also have divisions based at Merritt, Clearwater, 100 Mile House and Logan Lake. Atop recruiting personnel for the Regular Navy as well as naval reserve augmentation drafts to ships under the Interior Flotilla's administrative control, Nicola would serve as the mother ship to the personnel assigned to Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-two, a mobile group of maritime engineers which would serve as a manning augmentation pool that would deploy to FMF Fraser in metropolitan Vancouver to augment the shore staff there whenever required.
Calling the regional districts of North Okanagan and Columbia-Shuswap home would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Shuswap, headquartered in Vernon alongside her main tender unit, Harbour Support Group Twenty-two, which would be a manning pool of sailors ready to augment the staff of King's Harbour Master Fraser to allow rotation of support craft crews whenever required. Shuswap gets her name from the lake of the same name located in the Rocky Mountains that ultimately serves as the source point of water for the southern branch of the Thompson River flowing through Kamloops; the term itself comes from an Anglicization of the word Secwépemc, the name of the local First Nations tribe that lived in the area. Beyond her headquarters and Okanagan North division, Shuswap would have divisions based out of Coldstream, Salmon Arm, Enderby, Revelstoke and Armstrong. Beyond supporting the staff of HSG 22, Shuswap would also be the mother ship of the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Columbia, which would be built at FMF Fraser and, when not deployed, would be docked alongside her sistership Kootenay at the West Vancouver naval reserve dockyard.
The final operational unit of the formation is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nechako, based out of Prince George at the intersection of the Yellowhead branch of the Trans-Canada Highway (British Columbia Highway 16) and the Cariboo Highway (Highway 97) near the geographic centre of the province. Recruiting from the northern half of the regional district of Cariboo and all of the regional districts of Fraser-Fort George and Buckley-Nechako, Nechako herself gets her name from the like-named river, a tributary of the Fraser River (the two meet at Prince George); the name itself comes from the Dakeł (Carrier) term netsha koh ("big river"). Nechako would be responsible for organizing training divisions not just in the largest city of northern British Columbia, but also at Vanderhoof, Mackenzie, Williams Lake, Quesnel and Smithers. Nechako's main duties atop helping with augmenting the active ships of the Navy with trained personnel would be to prepare naval reserve augmentation drafts for Canadian Forces Base Prince Rupert at the western end of Highway 16 as well as be the mother ship to the commissioning crews of both the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Athabaskan and the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Fraser; once the latter is commissioned, she would be based at Prince Rupert given how close that is to where her naval reservists would muster to train.
Tying all the units together would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caledonia, the flotilla's main communications hub. Sharing the same headquarters naval arsenal as Nechako at Prince Rupert, Caledonia would have supplementary radio sections based at Willams Lake, Cranbrook, Kelowna and Kamloops; due to the high mountains that cover the region, the officers and sailors of Caledonia would become quite expert in both satellite relay communications as well as long-range very low frequency and ultra low frequency transmission. This would allow personnel assigned to her to help in the establishment of coded submarine transmissions over the years; up-time, the submarines of major powers such as America and Russia made use of UHF and VHF transmissions since such could easily penetrate through the planet and through the oceans to get messages to their intended recipients. Caledonia gets her name ultimately from the old Roman name for Scotland; it was applied to the fur-trading district established by the Hudson's Bay Company to cover the north-central portions of the modern province of British Columbia.
Atop those units, the Interior Flotilla would have three deployable underwater port security divisions at Kamloops, Kelowna and Quesnel, all of them making use of local lakes (such as Okanagan Lake) to train before getting the chance to work on the Pacific coast; they would also have access to make use of the planned Cormorant-class diving tender patrol ships once they are commissioned. Finally, the Interior Flotilla Band would serve as the formation's musical ambassadors.
As noted above, the three ships permanently assigned to the flotilla's operational control would be the Saguenay-class corvettes HMC Ships Fraser, Columbia and Kootenay, with the former based out of Prince Rupert and the latter two deploying from West Vancouver.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 10, 2019 21:18:46 GMT
After a little hiatus while I've had to deal with computer issues, let's get back to the Naval Reserve ORBATs...
INTERIOR FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Interior Flotilla/Headquarters, Twenty-second Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] INTFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caledonia (HMCS CALEDONIA)
Headquarters Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Naval Radio Section Fort George
Supplementary Radio Section Cariboo - WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Kootenay - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Okanagan - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Thompson - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pandosy (HMCS PANDOSY)
Headquarters Division - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Kelowna East Division
Kelowna West Division - WEST KELOWNA, British Columbia
Okanagan East Division - LAKE COUNTRY, British Columbia
Okanagan South Division - PENTICTON, British Columbia
Okanagan Summerland Division - SUMMERLAND, British Columbia
Similkameen River Division - OLIVER, British Columbia
Similkameen Valley Division - PRINCETON, British Columbia
West Boundary Division - GREENWOOD, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fisherville (HMCS FISHERVILLE)
Headquarters Division - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Cranbrook Division
East Boundary Division - TRAIL, British Columbia
East Kootenay Division - FERNIE, British Columbia
Hot Springs Division - RADIUM HOT SPRINGS, British Columbia
Kootenay Lake South Division - CRESTON, British Columbia
Lower Arrow Division - CASTLEGAR, British Columbia
North Kootenay Division - NEW DENVER, British Columbia
West Arm Division - NELSON, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nechako (HMCS NECHAKO)
Headquarters Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Upper Fraser Division
East Bulkley Division - VANDERHOOF, British Columbia
Fort George East Division - MACKENZIE, British Columbia
Middle Cariboo Division - WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia
North Cariboo Division - QUESNEL, British Columbia
West Bulkley Division - SMITHERS, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nicola (HMCS NICOLA)
Headquarters Division - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Middle Thompson Division
Nicola Valley Division - MERRITT, British Columbia
North Thompson Division - CLEARWATER, British Columbia
South Cariboo Division - 100 MILE HOUSE, British Columbia
West Thompson Division - LOGAN LAKE, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Shuswap (HMCS SHUSWAP)
Headquarters Division - VERNON, British Columbia
Okanagan North Division
Kalamalka Division - COLDSTREAM, British Columbia
Lower Shuswap Division - SALMON ARM, British Columbia
Middle Shuswap Division - ENDERBY, British Columbia
Upper Columbia Division - REVELSTOKE, British Columbia
Upper Shuswap Division - ARMSTRONG, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-two (FMG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Thompson
Fleet Maintenance Division Fort George - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Fleet Maintenance Division Okanagan - OLIVER, British Columbia
Harbour Support Group Twenty-two (HSG TWENTY-TWO)
Headquarters Division - VERNON, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Okanagan
Harbour Support Division Cariboo - 100 MILE HOUSE, British Columbia
Harbour Support Division Kootenay - NELSON, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Kamloops (UPSD KAMLOOPS)
Headquarters - KAMLOOPS, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Kelowna (UPSD KELOWNA)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
Underwater Port Security Division Quesnel (UPSD QUESNEL)
Headquarters - QUESNEL, British Columbia
The Interior Flotilla Band (INTFLOT BAND)
Headquarters - KELOWNA, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fraser (HMCS FRASER) (PCH-404)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Kootenay (HMCS KOOTENAY) (PCH-407)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - CRANBROOK, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Columbia (HMCS COLUMBIA) (PCH-412)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - REVELSTOKE, British Columbia
Ship's Home Port - WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia
With the population it possesses, British Columbia certainly deserved to have more than two naval reserve units in HMC Ships Discovery and Malahat; save for the metropolitan Vancouver region and Vancouver Island, there was no other location for would-be sailors to muster and prepare to head out to sea. Fortunately with the Shift, the Naval Reserves got the chance to press into the interior of the province, setting up an entire flotilla of naval reserve units that would form a large base of part-time sailors and help commission several future major vessels in the Royal Canadian Navy as the service navigates through the rough waters of the 1940s.
All units of the Interior Flotilla would be tenders of Discovery in Vancouver before commissioning. The primary unit of the new flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pandosy, which is based in Kelowna, British Columbia's seventh largest city and the core of the third largest metropolitan area in the province beyond metropolitan Vancouver and Victoria. She is named in tribute to Monsignor Jean-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Félix Pandosy, a Catholic priest from Marseille who helped organize the first European settlement in the British Columbia interior with the Okanagan Mission in 1859 thanks to the blessings of the Hudson's Bay Company. Tasked to recruit from the regional districts of Central Okanagan and Okanagan-Similkameen, Pandosy would have divisions located in the cities and municipalities of West Kelowna, Pendicton, Lake Country, Summerland, Oliver, Princeton and Greenwood...and no, that last location is not the RCAF base in Nova Scotia! Like other Naval Reserve units with catchment territories on the border with the United States, Pandosy would also augment the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency in securing their sector of the 49th Parallel North, plus also assist in training American migrants who come to Canada seeking a better place to live who are willing to serve in the Armed Forces. Pandosy would serve as the mother ship for the commissioning crew of the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Okanagan, which will be constructed at Fleet Maintenance Facility Fraser as soon as dock space is available.
Established to recruit from the regional districts of Central Kootenay, East Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary covering British Columbia's southeastern corner would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Fisherville, which is headquartered at Cranbrook. Another Naval Reserve unit who would have auxiliary duties in helping the RCMP and the CBSA keep their sector of the international border secure, Fisherville would also be the mother ship for the commissioning crew of the Superior-class attack submarine HMCS/M Emerald; the plank owners of the eighth of Canada's first ever indigenous-designed submarine class will be able to get loads of experience off HMC Submarines Victoria and Chicoutimi before boarding their own ship in the mid-1940s at current projections. Named in tribute to a 1860s era boom-to-bust gold rush town not so far from Cranbrook off Highway 95. Atop the headquarters division and the Cranbrook Division in Cranbrook itself, Fisherville would have detachments at Trail, Fernie, Radium Hot Springs, Creston, Castlegar, New Denver and Nelson. Fisherville would serve eventually as mother ship for the crew of the Saguenay-class corvette HMCS Kootenay when she is built at FMF Fraser; said ship would be based at the docks in West Vancouver to await her crew when required.
Covering the regional district of Thompson-Nicola and the southern half of the regional district of Cariboo would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nicola, headquarters in Kamloops on the Trans-Canada Highway mainline (British Columbia Highway 1) halfway between Vancouver and the Alberta border. The ship herself is named in tribute to the grand chief of the Okanagan peoples in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, Hwistesmetxe'qen (also known as N'kwala), who was responsible for mediating peace between the local First Nations and gold prospectors exploring the region in the 1850s and 1860s. Beyond her headquarters and Middle Thompson division at the city at the confluence of two branches of the Thompson River, Nicola would also have divisions based at Merritt, Clearwater, 100 Mile House and Logan Lake. Atop recruiting personnel for the Regular Navy as well as naval reserve augmentation drafts to ships under the Interior Flotilla's administrative control, Nicola would serve as the mother ship to the personnel assigned to Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-two, a mobile group of maritime engineers which would serve as a manning augmentation pool that would deploy to FMF Fraser in metropolitan Vancouver to augment the shore staff there whenever required.
Calling the regional districts of North Okanagan and Columbia-Shuswap home would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Shuswap, headquartered in Vernon alongside her main tender unit, Harbour Support Group Twenty-two, which would be a manning pool of sailors ready to augment the staff of King's Harbour Master Fraser to allow rotation of support craft crews whenever required. Shuswap gets her name from the lake of the same name located in the Rocky Mountains that ultimately serves as the source point of water for the southern branch of the Thompson River flowing through Kamloops; the term itself comes from an Anglicization of the word Secwépemc, the name of the local First Nations tribe that lived in the area. Beyond her headquarters and Okanagan North division, Shuswap would have divisions based out of Coldstream, Salmon Arm, Enderby, Revelstoke and Armstrong. Beyond supporting the staff of HSG 22, Shuswap would also be the mother ship of the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Columbia, which would be built at FMF Fraser and, when not deployed, would be docked alongside her sistership Kootenay at the West Vancouver naval reserve dockyard.
The final operational unit of the formation is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nechako, based out of Prince George at the intersection of the Yellowhead branch of the Trans-Canada Highway (British Columbia Highway 16) and the Cariboo Highway (Highway 97) near the geographic centre of the province. Recruiting from the northern half of the regional district of Cariboo and all of the regional districts of Fraser-Fort George and Buckley-Nechako, Nechako herself gets her name from the like-named river, a tributary of the Fraser River (the two meet at Prince George); the name itself comes from the Dakeł (Carrier) term netsha koh ("big river"). Nechako would be responsible for organizing training divisions not just in the largest city of northern British Columbia, but also at Vanderhoof, Mackenzie, Williams Lake, Quesnel and Smithers. Nechako's main duties atop helping with augmenting the active ships of the Navy with trained personnel would be to prepare naval reserve augmentation drafts for Canadian Forces Base Prince Rupert at the western end of Highway 16 as well as be the mother ship to the commissioning crews of both the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Athabaskan and the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Fraser; once the latter is commissioned, she would be based at Prince Rupert given how close that is to where her naval reservists would muster to train.
Tying all the units together would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caledonia, the flotilla's main communications hub. Sharing the same headquarters naval arsenal as Nechako at Prince Rupert, Caledonia would have supplementary radio sections based at Willams Lake, Cranbrook, Kelowna and Kamloops; due to the high mountains that cover the region, the officers and sailors of Caledonia would become quite expert in both satellite relay communications as well as long-range very low frequency and ultra low frequency transmission. This would allow personnel assigned to her to help in the establishment of coded submarine transmissions over the years; up-time, the submarines of major powers such as America and Russia made use of UHF and VHF transmissions since such could easily penetrate through the planet and through the oceans to get messages to their intended recipients. Caledonia gets her name ultimately from the old Roman name for Scotland; it was applied to the fur-trading district established by the Hudson's Bay Company to cover the north-central portions of the modern province of British Columbia.
Atop those units, the Interior Flotilla would have three deployable underwater port security divisions at Kamloops, Kelowna and Quesnel, all of them making use of local lakes (such as Okanagan Lake) to train before getting the chance to work on the Pacific coast; they would also have access to make use of the planned Cormorant-class diving tender patrol ships once they are commissioned. Finally, the Interior Flotilla Band would serve as the formation's musical ambassadors.
As noted above, the three ships permanently assigned to the flotilla's operational control would be the Saguenay-class corvettes HMC Ships Fraser, Columbia and Kootenay, with the former based out of Prince Rupert and the latter two deploying from West Vancouver.
Next: It's time to visit Stampede Country! And always these Orbats look very good pyeknu I wonder if separate ORBAT threads should go along with other ISOT stories as well, at least those featuring factions that employ military assets (i.e. modern America to 1950). |
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Post by pyeknu on Jun 10, 2019 21:37:20 GMT
I wonder if separate ORBAT threads should go along with other ISOT stories as well, at least those featuring factions that employ military assets (i.e. modern America to 1950). Depends on the original story author, I guess. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 10, 2019 23:24:03 GMT
I wonder if separate ORBAT threads should go along with other ISOT stories as well, at least those featuring factions that employ military assets (i.e. modern America to 1950). Depends on the original story author, I guess. Out of respect for them, sure. But I think it's a good idea that either they or authorized collaborators create ORBAT threads so that there's a distinct place to disseminate and discuss the relevant information. Though, separate chapters (or at least, sections) dedicated to detailing ORBATs probably work fine, too. But I digress. |
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Post by pyeknu on Jun 10, 2019 23:47:53 GMT
Now, to look at the southern part of the Wild Rose Province...
ALBERTA FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Alberta Flotilla/Headquarters, Twenty-third Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] ALTAFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY-THREE)
Headquarters - Crowchild Trail Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Mount Stephen (HMCS MOUNT STEPHEN)
Headquarters Division - Stampede Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
Naval Radio Section Alyth
Supplementary Radio Section Macleod - CLARESHOLM, Alberta
Supplementary Radio Section Red Deer - RED DEER, Alberta
Supplementary Radio Section Suffield - MEDICINE HAT, Alberta
Supplementary Radio Section Wheatland - STRATHMORE, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Tecumseh (HMCS TECUMSEH)
Headquarters Division - Crowchild Trail Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
West Calgary Division
West Calgary Division Detachment Downtown - Stampede Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
East Calgary Division - Marlborough Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
North Calgary Division - Macewan Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
North Rocky Mount Division - AIRDRIE, Alberta
South Calgary Division - Auburn Bay Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
West Rocky Mount Division - COCHRANE, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Strathmore (HMCS STRATHMORE)
Headquarters Division - STRATHMORE, Alberta
Wheatland Division
East Rocky Mount Division - CHESTERMERE, Alberta
Foothills Division - OKOTOKS, Alberta
Kneehill Division - THREE HILLS, Alberta
Mountain View Division - DIDSBURY, Alberta
Starland Division - DRUMHELLER, Alberta
Vulcan Division - VULCAN, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Cypress (HMCS CYPRESS)
Headquarters Division - LETHBRIDGE, Alberta
Lethbridge Division
Acadia Division - HANNA, Alberta
Cypress Division - MEDICINE HAT, Alberta
Forty Mile Division - FOREMOST, Alberta
Newell Division - BROOKS, Alberta
Taber Division - TABER, Alberta
Warner Division - RAYMOND, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship McKinney (HMCS McKINNEY)
Headquarters Division - CLARESHOLM, Alberta
Willow Creek Division
Bighorn Division - CANMORE, Alberta
Cardston Division - CARDSTON, Alberta
Columbia Division - BANFF, Alberta
Crowsnest Division - BLAIRMORE, Alberta
Pincher Creek Division - PINCHER CREEK, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Waskasoo (HMCS WASKASOO)
Headquarters Division - RED DEER, Alberta
North Red Deer Division
Central Red Deer Division - PENHOLD, Alberta
Clearwater Division - ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE, Alberta
East Red Deer Division - INNISFAIL, Alberta
Lacombe Division - LACOMBE, Alberta
Ponoka Division - PONOKA, Alberta
West Red Deer Division - SYLVAN LAKE, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-three (FMG TWENTY-THREE)
Headquarters Division - AIRDRIE, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Division Rocky View
Fleet Maintenance Division Lethbridge - LETHBRIDGE, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Division Vulcan - VULCAN, Alberta
Harbour Support Group Twenty-three (HSG TWENTY-THREE)
Headquarters Division - Crowchild Trail Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
Harbour Support Division Stampede
Harbour Support Division Auburn Bay - Auburn Bay Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
Harbour Support Division Waskasoo - RED DEER, Alberta
Underwater Port Security Division Cypress (UPSD CYPRESS)
Headquarters - MEDICINE HAT, Alberta
Underwater Port Security Division Sylvan Lake (UPSD SYLVAN LAKE)
Headquarters - SYLVAN LAKE, Alberta
The Stampede Band (STAMPEDE BAND)
Headquarters - Crowchild Trail Naval Arsenal, CALGARY, Alberta
Like Canada's third-most populous province (and until near the end of the Cold War, the country's second-most populous province), the most populous province of the Prairies only had two Naval Reserve units to where new sailors would join the service and train: HMC Ships Tecumseh and Nonsuch in Calgary and Edmonton respectively. Because of that and because of Alberta's population at the time of the Shift - about 4,345,737 persons according to some estimates - it was decided that those two ships would become the flagships of new flotillas that would effectively divide the province in two large sectors; as with British Columbia, the northernmost areas of Alberta would fall under the catchment of the Northwest Flotilla/Maritime Operations Group Twenty...which would actually be headquartered in Fort McMurray near the western tip of Lake Athabasca! However, this article will just cover what would be called the "Alberta Flotilla" in respect to the pre-1905 district of the old Northwest Territories that covered the southern end of the modern province.
Flagship for this formation would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Tecumseh, one of the older Naval Reserve units which was first established in 1923 and commissioned under its current name during World War Two IOTL in 1941. She was named in tribute to the great warrior chief of the Shaawanwaki that allied with the British to maintain their traditional lands, Tekoomsē; he fought alongside Sir Isaac Brock during the first years of the War of 1812. Located in a modern naval arsenal on 17 Avenue SW in Calgary, Tecumseh would be allowed to set up satellite naval arsenals for divisions all across Alberta's largest city as well as two neighbouring municipalities to the north and west of Calgary, Airdrie and Cochrane. Atop helping establish her new sister units across southern Alberta, Tecumseh would also be tasked to provide the naval reserve augmentation division to her home town's namesake frigate HMCS Calgary. She would also serve as the mother ship for both Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-two and Harbour Support Group Twenty-two, manning pools of personnel meant to help augment FMF Fraser and KHM Fraser respectively. Of course, Tecumseh's ship's band would be allowed to go independent and become the Stampede Band, named in tribute to Calgary's annual summer rodeo/exhibition/festival. Along the way, the commissioning crew of the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Niitsitapi - named in honour of the Blackfoot Confederacy that once dominated modern-day Alberta - would be trained at Tecumseh's detachment training at the Macewan Naval Arsenal.
Outside Tecumseh, the most important operational unit of the formation would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship McKinney, which would be stood up initially at Claresholm near the foot of the Rocky Mountains on Alberta Highway 2 about a hundred kilometres north of the border with Montana. Like with sister units possessing catchment areas bordering the United States, McKinney would be tasked to assist the RCMP and the CBSA in dealing with the streams of American immigrants coming north to escape things like Jim Crow laws and the like and would be willing to join the Canadian Forces to ensure they could stay in this new iteration of the "land of Canaan". McKinney would be allowed to recruit from the territories of Cardston County; the municipal districts of Bighorn, Ranchland, Pincher Creek and Willow Creek; the former Kananaskis County that was re-designated an improvement district in 1996; the Fourth, Ninth and Twelfth Improvement Districts covering the territories of Waterton Lakes, Banff and Jasper National Parks; and all municipalities and First Nation reservations located within those areas. To assist in that, McKinney would have divisions based at Canmore, Cardston, Banff, Blairmore and Pincher Creek. Once all is running smoothly, she would be tasked to help establish the commissioning crews of FOUR of the new Superior-class attack submarines to be commissioned in the mid-1940s: HMC Submarines Moraine, Louise, Waterton and Minnewanka. She would get her name from the famous women's rights activist Louise McKinney, an adopted native of Claresholm who helped prosecute the famous Persons Case of 1929 that would allow women to sit in the national Senate.
The other unit that would cover the remainder of the border between Alberta and Montana would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Cypress, based out of Lethbridge at the intersections of Highways 3 (the Crowsnest Highway) and 4 (which once connected to Interstate 15 in Montana). Atop the aid to the civilian power mission she would be tasked to join McKinney in securing the southern border, Cypress would also be tasked to support Canadian Forces Base Suffield and the units of the British armed forces and Defence Research and Development Canada based there; this would make her division based at nearby Medicine Hat just as vital as her headquarters division and the division named after her home city. Cypress would also be tasked to establish divisions at Hanna, Foremost, Brooks, Taber and Raymond. Her recruiting catchment area includes the counties of Cypress, Forty Mile, Lethbridge, Newell and Warner; the municipal districts of Taber and Acadia; the second, third and fourth special areas lying to the north of CFB Suffield's training area; and all cities, towns, villages and First Nations settlements within those zones. Cypress, of course, gets her name from the Cypress Hills that help form the divide between the watersheds of the Missouri River to the south and the rivers flowing into Hudson Bay to the north. Beyond that, Cypress would serve as a general manning pool for the Pacific Fleet.
Covering the areas to the east and northeast of Calgary would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Strathmore, headquartered in the city of the same name on the Trans-Canada Highway (Alberta Highway 1) fifty kilometres to the east of the province's largest city. Named in tribute to the King's grandfather-in-law Claude Bowes-Lyon, the thirteenth Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Strathmore would become one of the few effectively Scottish-Canadian Naval Reserve units; Strathmore would have a volunteer pipe and drums band...and YES, all of her ship's company would be permitted to wear kilts (Clan Lyon tartan) with their dress uniforms! Atop the headquarters and Wheatland Division based in her namesake city, Strathmore would have divisions based at Chestermere, Okotoks, Three Hills, Didsbury, Drumheller and Vulcan...and yes, we mean THAT Vulcan which serves as one of the central focuses of Star Trek fandom in Canada! Her recruitment catchment area covers the counties of Kneehill, Starland, Vulcan, Wheatland, Mountain View and the eastern half of Rocky View (the western half falling into Tecumseh's recruitment zone), plus all communities located within those territories. Once fully established, Strathmore would be tasked to establish the commissioning crew of the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Drumheller, which would be built at FMF Fraser's yards in metropolitan Vancouver...and YES, Drumheller's ship's company would be allowed to wear their mother ship's tartans, which would DEFINITELY make heads turn once she's commissioned.
The flotilla's final operational unit would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Waskasoo, headquartered in Alberta's third largest city of Red Deer on the Highway 2 corridor connecting Calgary and Edmonton. She would get her name from the Cree word for the Red Deer River flowing through her home city; the name itself means "elk river". Recruiting from a catchment area including the counties of Clearwater, Red Deer, Lacombe and Ponoka (and all municipalities contained within their territories), Waskasoo would have divisions based at Penhold, Rocky Mountain House, Innisfail, Lacombe, Ponoka and Sylvan Lake. Unlike her sister units in the Alberta Flotilla, Waskasoo would effectively serve as a general manning pool for the Pacific Fleet as a whole, though she would contribute personnel to both FMG 22 and HSG 22. She would also be the mother ship of Underwater Port Security Division Sylvan Lake, based in the like-named town near Red Deer itself; the other UPSD would be based out of Medicine Hat answering to Cypress. Both divisions would be ready to send personnel to the Pacific coast to assist in securing the many ports and harbours located there.
To tie the whole region together would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Mount Stephen, the flotilla's main communications hub. Based out of a specially-built detachment of Tecumseh's headquarters naval arsenal near the Calgary Stampede grounds, Mount Stephen would have supplementary radio sections based at Claresholm, Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Strathmore. She gets hr name from George Stephen, the first Baron Mount Stephen, who was the financial genius behind the formation of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1870s. As another Scottish-Canadian ship, the crew of Mount Stephen would be ceremonially adopted by the Clan Erskine (who once held the territory around Baron Mount Stephen's birthplace of Dufftown on the North Sea coast of old Banffshire) and permitted to wear their tartan with their dress, mess dress and service uniforms.
No Naval Reserve vessel would be assigned to the Alberta Flotilla, but with the augmentation manning for HMCS Calgary and the commissioning crews of SIX new vessels to rise from the formation, this particular maritime operations group will be quite busy!
Next: Let's go to the north end of the Queen Elizabeth 2 Highway, shall we...?
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Post by lordroel on Jun 11, 2019 2:48:48 GMT
Depends on the original story author, I guess. Out of respect for them, sure. But I think it's a good idea that either they or authorized collaborators create ORBAT threads so that there's a distinct place to disseminate and discuss the relevant information. Though, separate chapters (or at least, sections) dedicated to detailing ORBATs probably work fine, too. But I digress. This thread was created by the original author and also i know that pyeknu has his backing in making these Orbats, thus i think this thread is where it should be. |
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Post by pyeknu on Jun 12, 2019 15:36:52 GMT
And now, covering the northern part of the Wild Rose Province...!
ATHABASCA FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Athabasca Flotilla/Headquarters, Twenty-fourth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] ATHABFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY-FOUR)
Headquarters - Blatchford Field Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Strathcona (HMCS STRATHCONA)
Headquarters Division - FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alberta
Naval Radio Section Fort Saskatchewan
Supplementary Radio Section Denwood - Denwood Naval Arsenal, WAINWRIGHT, Alberta
Supplementary Radio Section Meridian - LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta/Saskatchewan
Supplementary Radio Section Namao - Steele Barracks, STURGEON COUNTY, Alberta
Supplementary Radio Section Trumpeter - GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nonsuch (HMCS NONSUCH)
Headquarters Division - Blatchford Field Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Edmonton Northwest Division
Barrhead Division - BARRHEAD, Alberta
Edmonton Northeast Division - Clareview Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Edmonton Southeast Division - Mill Woods Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Edmonton Southwest Division - University Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Lac Sainte Anne Division - MAYERTHORPE, Alberta
Parkland Division - SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta
Whitecourt Division - Dahl Drive Military Annex and Naval Annex, WHITECOURT, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Denwood (HMCS DENWOOD)
Headquarters Division - Denwood Naval Arsenal, WAINWRIGHT, Alberta
Wainwright Division
Camrose Division - CAMROSE, Alberta
Flagstaff Division - SEDGEWICK, Alberta
Leduc Division - LEDUC, Alberta
Paintearth Division - CASTOR, Alberta
Provost Division - PROVOST, Alberta
Stettler Division - STETTLER, Alberta
Wetaskiwin Division - WETASKIWIN, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Meridian (HMCS MERIDIAN)
Headquarters Division - LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta/Saskatchewan
Vermillion River Division
Beaver Division - TOFIELD, Alberta
Eldon Division - MAIDSTONE, Saskatchewan
Lamont Division - LAMONT, Alberta
Minburn Division - VEGREVILLE, Alberta
Strathcona Division - FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alberta
Sturgeon Division - Steele Barracks, STURGEON COUNTY, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Trumpeter (HMCS TRUMPETER)
Headquarters Division - GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta
Grande Prairie Division
Big Lakes Division - SWAN HILLS, Alberta
Brazeau Division - DRAYTON VALLEY, Alberta
Greenview East Division - FOX CREEK, Alberta
Greenview West Division - GRANDE CACHE, Alberta
Slave River Division - SLAVE LAKE, Alberta
Yellowhead West Division - HINTON, Alberta
Yellowhead East Division - 6 Avenue Military Annex and Naval Annex, EDSON, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-Four (FMG TWENTY-FOUR)
Headquarters Division - Clareview Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Division Fort Edmonton
Fleet Maintenance Division Trumpeter - GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Division Wetaskiwin - WETASKIWIN, Alberta
Harbour Support Group Twenty-four (HSG TWENTY-FOUR)
Headquarters Division - Mill Woods Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Harbour Support Division Edmonton
Harbour Support Division Meridian - LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta/Saskatchewan
Harbour Support Division Yellowhead - HINTON, Alberta
Underwater Port Security Division Beaverhill (UPSD BEAVERHILL)
Headquarters - LAMONT, Alberta
Underwater Port Security Division Lesser Slave Lake (UPSD LESSER SLAVE LAKE)
Headquarters - SLAVE LAKE, Alberta
The Athabasca Flotilla Band (ATHABASCA BAND)
Headquarters - Blatchford Field Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Edmonton (HMCS EDMONTON) (MM-703)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Blatchford Field Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
As much as the Naval Reserves were mobilizing across all of southern Alberta, central and northern Alberta also saw a massive increase of numbers and units to become its own flotilla, centred around Edmonton and its naval reserve unit, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nonsuch, which was based at a naval arsenal close to the old RCAF Station Edmonton at Blatchford Field. With her name derived from the French term non pareil ("of no equal"), Nonsuch is one of many Naval Reserve units in Canada that inherited battle honours from previous Royal Navy ships who bore that name, stemming all the way back to the 1650s; the Canadian ship herself would take her name from the third HMS Nonsuch, one of the original vessels of the Hudson's Bay Company when the fur trading giant began exploring the basin of the bay of the same name during the 1670s. Atop serving as the effective mother ship for the whole Athabasca Flotilla, Nonsuch would also serve as the mother ship of the Northwest Flotilla covering the Yukon and the Northwest Territories (as well as the northern municipalities of British Columbia and Alberta); this would allow HMCS Discovery in Vancouver to concentrate on creating new Naval Reserve units throughout all of mainland British Columbia. Once the other units were functional and the Athabasca Flotilla was formally commissioned - the name stems from the pre-1905 district of the Northwest Territories that controlled the area of northern Alberta today - Nonsuch would move to form a naval reserve augmentation division for the Kingston-class coastal defence ship HMCS Edmonton, which would be eventually shifted to CFB Prince Rupert after enough of the Anticosti-class mine countermeasures vessels were commissioned to become a full-time Naval Reserve warship. Nonsuch would also become the mother ship of both Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-four and Harbour Support Group Twenty-four, which would form manning pools to reinforce FMF Nanaimo's and KHM Nanaimo's detachments at CFB Prince Rupert when required. Also, Nonsuch would serve as the mother ship of the formation's musical ambassadors, the Athabasca Flotilla Band. Her recruiting catchment zone would be concentrated in the city of Edmonton and the counties of Barrhead, Lac Sainte Anne, Parkland and Woodlands, plus all municipalities located within said counties.
The formation's primary operational unit beyond Nonsuch would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Denwood, which would muster at a new naval arsenal on the grounds of Canadian Forces Base/Area Support Unit Wainwright near the town of the same name in east-central Alberta. Named in tribute to Canada Post's local office name for the camp, Denwood would be allowed to recruit from a large swath of territory extending from the Saskatchewan border all the way to Edmonton itself. The catchment zone includes the municipal districts of Wainwright and Provost; the counties of Camrose, Wetaskiwin, Flagstaff, Paintearth and Stettler; and all communities contained within. Denwood's primary task would be to provide support to CFB Wainwright as well as the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre based there. Her secondary task would be to form the commissioning crews of two of the Chambly-class frigates to be constructed at FMF Fraser's yards in metropolitan Vancouver, HMC Ships Wetaskiwin and Camrose, named after two successful Flower-class corvettes that served during "round one" of World War Two IOTL; Denwood would also be assigned in the future to provide the two new frigates' naval reserve augmentation teams. As for ship's crests, Denwood would get a variation of CFB Wainwright's bison-head crest on a "sea" of green and white wavy lines, while Camrose would get a wild rose badge set in a "V" of white and blue waves (taken from her original Welsh name, meaning "crooked moor"). As for Wetaskiwin, she wouldn't get the same "wet ass queen" badge that adored the gunhouse of her previous incarnation even if such could be seen as a perfect example of a heraldic rebus ("speaking arms"); look at HMCS Discovery's "disc-over-y" badge to see what I mean. However, a less offensive version would be created by the Canadian Heraldic Authority, mixed with symbols denoting the Cree term that eventually went into the city's name ("the hills where peace was made"): Within a "V" shape (the Chambly-class are also known as the "Victory-class" frigates) of green, a proper queen of hearts playing card is shown being dipped into a heraldic sea of blue and white.
Recruiting from west-central Alberta would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Trumpeter, which would be based in Grande Prairie on the general corridor between Edmonton and Dawson Creek in British Columbia. Trumpeter - named in tribute to the trumpeter swan whose migration routes pass over the city and its surrounding territory - would serve effectively as a general manning pool for the Navy at this time. The recruiting catchment zone for her would be within the counties of Grande Prairie, Big Lakes, Brazeau and Yellowhead, the municipal districts of Greenview and Lesser Slave River and all municipalities contained within said area. One task Trumpeter would be given would be to organize one of the flotilla's two underwater port security divisions at Slave Lake; said UPSD would be tasked to assist the Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue when they send trainee search and rescue technicians to the Jarvis Lake Campground in the William A. Switzer Provincial Park (located near Hinton in Yellowhead County) for training.
The formation's most unique unit - indeed, this unit would pretty much be the most unique element of ALL the Naval Reserves - would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Meridian. Said unit would be based in the city of Lloydminster, which literally straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan border where the Yellowhead route of the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 16) intersects with the jointly-maintained Highway 17 on the meridian 110° west of Greenwich that serves as the interprovincial border. Because of this, Meridian is allowed to recruit new sailors from BOTH Alberta and Saskatchewan, with all the wonderful convolutions in paperwork THAT would unleash. Atop recruiting from the city of Lloydminster itself, Meridian's catchment area covers a swatch of territory west to Edmonton itself, including the Alberta counties of Vermillion River, Beaver, Lamont, Minburn and Sturgeon (where CFB Edmonton is located north of the city itself) and the specialized municipality of Strathcona County east of Edmonton (plus all municipalities within). On the Saskatchewan side of 110° West, Meridian would recruit from the rural municipalities of Meota, Turtle River, Paynton, Eldon, Wilton, Parkdale, Mervin, Frenchman Butte, Britannia, Loon Lake, Meadow Lake and Beaver River (and all municipalities contained within, of course). Atop providing support to CFB Edmonton in conjunction with Nonsuch and Denwood, Meridian would also also raise an underwater port security division to be based at Lamont, called Underwater Port Security Division Beaverhill. UPSD Beaverhill would be tasked to help in the defence of CFB Prince Rupert.
Acting as the formation's communications hub would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Strathcona based out of Fort Saskatchewan to the northeast of Edmonton. She was named in honour of Donald Smith, the first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, who was active in business both with the Hudson's Bay Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was ALSO the man who helped raise Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) out of private funds to fight in the Boer War around the turn of the previous millennium up-time; said regiment serves as the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps' second-senior unit and is based out of CFB Edmonton, which would allow the Strathconas in both the Army and Navy to become affiliated units. Since Strathcona is named after a Scottish landlord, the ship's company would become a ceremonial Scottish-Canadian Navy unit, wearing the Clan Macfie tartan; the clan's ancestral home is located on the Isle of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides where the Barons Strathcona have their traditional seat. Strathcona would have supplementary radio sections at Wainwright, Lloydminster, Grande Prairie and at CFB Edmonton attached to Meridian's local division there.
As noted before, only HMCS Edmonton would be attached to the flotilla once peace comes, though with the plank owners of two frigates being trained by the formation...!
Next: We go into Roughrider country...!
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Post by pyeknu on Jun 13, 2019 17:02:53 GMT
And now, let's visit the Naval Reserves in Roughrider Country...!
ASSINIBOIA FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Assiniboia Flotilla/Headquarters, Twenty-fifth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] ASNBFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY-FIVE)
Headquarters - Wascana Naval Arsenal, REGINA, Saskatchewan
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Dumont (HMCS DUMONT)
Headquarters - PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan
Naval Radio Section Batoche
Supplementary Radio Section Corman Park - Caswell Hill Naval Arsenal, SASKATOON, Saskatchewan
Supplementary Radio Section Orkney - YORKTON, Saskatchewan
Supplementary Radio Section Sherwood - Wascana Naval Arsenal, REGINA, Saskatchewan
Supplementary Radio Section Swift Current - SWIFT CURRENT, Saskatchewan
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Queen (HMCS QUEEN)
Headquarters Division - Wascana Naval Arsenal, REGINA, Saskatchewan
Sherwood Division
Moose Jaw Division - Bushell Park Naval Arsenal, MOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan
Morse Division - HERBERT, Saskatchewan
Qu'Appelle Division - FORT QU'APPELLE, Saskatchewan
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Unicorn (HMCS UNICORN)
Headquarters Division - Caswell Hill Naval Arsenal, SASKATOON, Saskatchewan
Corman Park Division
Arm River Division - DAVIDSON, Saskatchewan
Dundurn Division - Dundurn Magazine, DUNDURN, Saskatchewan
Hudson Bay Division - HUDSON BAY, Saskatchewan
Humbolt Division - HUMBOLT, Saskatchewan
Morris Division - WATROUS, Saskatchewan
Nipawin Division - NIPAWIN, Saskatchewan
Star City Division - MELFORT, Saskatchewan
Wadena Division - WADENA, Saskatchewan
Wynyard Division - WYNYARD, Saskatchewan
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Batoche (HMCS BATOCHE)
Headquarters Division - PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan
Buckland Division
Biggar Division - BIGGAR, Saskatchewan
Blaine Lake Division - BLAINE LAKE, Saskatchewan
North Battleford Division - NORTH BATTLEFORD, Saskatchewan
Northern Saskatchewan Division - LA RONGE, Saskatchewan
Northern Saskatchewan Division Detachment Reindeer Lake - SOUTHEND, Saskatchewan
Rosthern Division - ROSTHERN, Saskatchewan
Round Valley Division - UNITY, Saskatchewan
Saint Andrews Division - ROSETOWN, Saskatchewan
Shellbrook Division - SHELLBROOK, Saskatchewan
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Palliser (HMCS PALLISER)
Headquarters Division - SWIFT CURRENT, Saskatchewan
Swift Current Division
Assiniboia Division - ASSINIBOIA, Saskatchewan
Eston Division - ESTON, Saskatchewan
Gravelbourg Division - GRAVELBOURG, Saskatchewan
Kerrobert Division - KERROBERT, Saskatchewan
Kindersley Division - KINDERSLEY, Saskatchewan
Maple Creek Division - MAPLE CREEK, Saskatchewan
Radville Division - RADVILLE, Saskatchewan
Weyburn Division - WEYBURN, Saskatchewan
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Whitesand (HMCS WHITESAND)
Headquarters Division - YORKTON, Saskatchewan
Whitesand Division
Canora Division - CANORA, Saskatchewan
Carlyle Division - CARLYLE, Saskatchewan
Esterhazy Division - ESTERHAZY, Saskatchewan
Estevan Division - ESTEVAN, Saskatchewan
Grenfell Division - GRENFELL, Saskatchewan
Kamsack Division - KAMSACK, Saskatchewan
Melville Division - MELVILLE, Saskatchewan
Moosomin Division - MOOSOMIN, Saskatchewan
Oxbow Division - OXBOW, Saskatchewan
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-five (FMG TWENTY-FIVE)
Headquarters Division - Caswell Hill Naval Arsenal, SASKATOON, Saskatchewan
Fleet Maintenance Division Saskatoon
Fleet Maintenance Division Prince Albert - PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan
Fleet Maintenance Division Regina - Wascana Naval Arsenal, REGINA, Saskatchewan
Harbour Support Group Twenty-five (HSG TWENTY-FIVE)
Headquarters Division - Wascana Naval Arsenal, REGINA, Saskatchewan
Harbour Support Division Sherwood
Harbour Support Division Corman Park - Caswell Hill Naval Arsenal, SASKATOON, Saskatchewan
Harbour Support Division Poundmaker - UNITY, Saskatchewan
Underwater Port Security Division Hillsborough (UPSD HILLSBOROUGH)
Headquarters - Bushell Park Naval Arsenal, MOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan
Underwater Port Security Division Saskatoon (UPSD SASKATOON)
Headquarters - Caswell Hill Naval Arsenal, SASKATOON, Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Band of the Assiniboia Flotilla (SASK BAND)
Headquarters - Wascana Naval Arsenal, REGINA, Saskatchewan
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Qu'Appelle (HMCS QU'APPELLE) (PCH-410)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - FORT QU'APPELLE, Saskatchewan
Ship's Home Port - RICHMOND, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Margaret Brooke (HMCS MARGARET BROOKE) (AOPV-431)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - NORTH BATTLEFORD, Saskatchewan
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Saskatoon (HMCS SASKATOON) (MM-709)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Caswell Hill Naval Arsenal, SASKATOON, Saskatchewan
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
The Red Lily Province, home of the famous Saskatchewan Roughriders football team, was blessed with two Naval Reserve divisions at the time of the Shift. However, given that the province's base population is only about a quarter of that of its western neighbour, it was decided that only one flotilla would be organized for Saskatchewan, with both HMC Ships Queen and Unicorn serving as base ships for what would soon arise across most of the province.
The first of the two pre-Shift units in Saskatchewan is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Queen, based at the naval arsenal overlooking Wascana Lake (an artificial reservoir created by the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the 1880s as a source of fresh water for the new city to arise there). Originally the Naval Reserve unit for all of southern Saskatchewan, Queen would be allowed to concentrate her recruiting to the areas around Regina itself. The catchment area for her includes the cities of Regina and Moose Jaw and the physical territories covered by Census Division #s 6 and 7, ranging from Fort Qu'Appelle to the east to Herbert in the west. Three detached divisions of Queen would be formed at Fort Qu'Appelle, Herbert and at CFB Moose Jaw; one of Queen's primary taskings would be supporting operations at 15 Wing where advanced pilot training are conducted. Queen's main task for the Navy would be to prepare the naval reserve augmentation force to the ship named after her hometown, the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Regina. Queen would also be given the task of establishing the commissioning crews of the Iroquois-class destroyer HMCS Sioux, the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Moose Jaw and the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Qu'Appelle, with the Nova Scotia-class cruiser HMCS Saskatchewan to eventually follow. Of course, as Qu'Appelle is intended from the start to be a Naval Reserve vessel, she would serve as temporary flagship of MOG 25 at sea until Regina is replaced by new construction and reassigned to reserve training service.
The other pre-Shift unit is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Unicorn, located in the province's largest city of Saskatoon. Unlike Queen, Unicorn would have quite the large catchment area, covering the physical territories of Census Division #s 10 and 11, plus neighbouring territories from Census Division #s 14 and 15 to the north and northeast of Saskatoon. To drawn in as many recruits as possible, Unicorn would establish detached divisions at Davidson, Hudson Bay, Humbolt, Melfort, Nipawin, Wadena, Watrous, Wynyard and at CFB Winnipeg Detachment Dundurn near the town of the same name south of Saskatoon itself; as Queen would to 15 Wing in Moose Jaw, Unicorn would take up the primary tasking of supporting the Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot at Dundurn, which would be one of the primary sources of Army and Air Force munitions. Unicorn's other primary tasking would be to provide the naval reserve augmentation division for the Kingston-class HMCS Saskatoon, which would be based at Esquimalt for a time until the Anticosti-class mine warfare ships come on-line, then she would be shifted to Prince Rupert to become a full-time Naval Reserve vessel.
The most important of the post-Shift units to be formed for the Assiniboia Flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Batoche, to be headquartered at Prince Albert north of Saskatoon. She would possess the largest catchment area of all of Saskatchewan's naval reserve units; Batoche would establish detached divisions at Biggar, Blaine Lake, La Ronge, North Battleford, Rosetown, Rosthern, Shellbrook, Southend and Unity. The total catchment area would cover the whole of Census Division #s 13 and 16, the northern half of Census Division #12, the remaining territories of Census Division #15 not covered by Unicorn and the vast majority of Census Division #18 (also known as the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District) covering the northern half of the province save for the areas close to inhabited zones in Manitoba and Alberta. Batoche, which takes her name from the decisive battle of the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, would be primarily tasked to organize the commissioning crews of two of the Chambly-class frigates to be constructed at FMF Fraser in metropolitan Vancouver, HMC Ships Battleford and Waskesiu...not to mention the second of the Harry DeWolf-class patrol ships to be built by Irving in Halifax, HMCS Margaret Brooke; the second "AOPS" would be regulated to reserve training duties and based at Prince Rupert once she is commissioned. Beyond that, Batoche would also be responsible for providing active military support to the elements of 4 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, the effectively only military presence in the scattered First Nations towns and villages in northern Saskatchewan.
Raised in southwest Saskatchewan at Swift Current would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Palliser, named in honour of Palliser's Triangle, a region of semi-arid steppe that covers southeast Alberta and southwest Saskatchewan where frequent droughts have often ruined crops grown there; the region got its name from Irish-born John Palliser, an explorer and geographer that researched the area of the Hudson's Bay Company's fur-gathering zone (known as Rupert's Land) to evaluate the prospects of future settlement in the 1860s. Fortunately, Palliser the ship would have a lot better luck when it came to recruiting personnel to serve in the Navy; she would organize detached divisions at Assiniboia, Eston, Gravelbourg, Kerrobert, Kindersley, Maple Creek, Radville and Weyburn. The geographical catchment area for the new ship would cover the territories of Census Division #s 2, 3, 4 and 8 and the southern half of the territory of Census Division #12. Being a unit that would cover areas bordering the American states of Montana and North Dakota, Palliser would be given the primary task of supporting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency with securing a vast section of the 49th Parallel. She would also be given the task of recruiting the commissioning crew of the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Weyburn, which would be constructed at FMF Fraser's yards in metropolitan Vancouver.
The final operational unit of the flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Whitesand, headquartered at Yorkton on the Yellowknife branch of the Trans-Canada Highway (Saskatchewan Highway 16) in the southeast of the province. Effectively meant to serve as a general manning pool for the navy, Whitesand would have detached divisions located at Canora, Carlyle, Esterhazy, Estevan, Grenfell, Kamsack, Melville, Moosomin and Oxbow. This would give her a recruiting catchment area covering the territories of Census Division #s 1, 5 and 9 bordering Manitoba to the east. She gets her name from the Whitesand River, which is a tributary of the Assiniboine River that conveys water east to Winnipeg to eventually flow into Hudson Bay. As part of her catchment area falls on the border with North Dakota, Whitesand would also support the RCMP and the CBSA with securing the frontier and helping process new migrants into Canada from America. She would have the secondary task of supporting activities at CFB Shilo across the border and down the Trans-Canada Highway from Estevan in concert with her neighbouring naval reserve unit, HMCS Rosser.
To glue the whole flotilla together would be the in-house communications unit, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Dumont. Headquartered alongside Batoche in Prince Rupert, Dumont would have supplementary radio sections located at Saskatoon, Yorkton, Regina and Swift Current alongside the headquarters divisions of the flotilla's other operational units. She would get her name from the famous Métis leader Gabriel Dumont, who commanded the forces raised by Louis Riel against the Canadian government during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885; while he was illiterate, Dumont could speak seven languages as he worked to maintain the peace between the Métis and neighbouring First Nations such as the Niitsitapi. Because of this, Dumont the ship would run a French-language school in support of recruiting into French-language units of the Forces, especially that of the Keewatin Flotilla in neighbouring Manitoba.
The flotilla would also raise both Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-five and Harbour Support Group Twenty-five, headquartered at Saskatoon and Regina respectively, to serve as manning pools for both FMF Fraser and FMF Nanaimo as well as KHM Fraser and KHM Nanaimo on the Pacific coasts. Also, two underwater port security divisions would be raised: Underwater Port Security Division Hillsborough at CFB Moose Jaw and Underwater Port Security Division Saskatoon in its like-named city. Both of these units would be ready to deploy to the Pacific coast whenever required. Finally, the flotilla's musical ambassadors would be formed at Queen in the Saskatchewan Band of the Assiniboia Flotilla.
As noted above, the ships directly assigned to the Assiniboia Flotilla would be the Kingston-class coastal patrol ship HMCS Saskatoon, the Harry DeWolf-class patrol ship HMCS Margaret Brooke and the Saguenay-class corvette HMCS Qu'Appelle. However, with the flotilla also helping support the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Regina and establishing the ship's companies for SIX new Navy vessels, the people of the Red Lily Province will be strongly represented on the high seas...!
Next: The last flotilla of the Naval Reserve Pacific Forces as we head into the land of the Blue Bombers and the Jets...!
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Post by pyeknu on Jun 14, 2019 14:51:09 GMT
And now, the final flotilla of Naval Reserve Forces Pacific as we enter the fifth province to join Confederation...
KEEWATIN FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Keewatin Flotilla/Capitaine de Vaisseau de la Flottille de Keewatin (CAPT[N] KEEWFLOT/CAPV FLOTKEEW)
Headquarters, Twenty-sixth Maritime Operations Group/Quartier-Général de la Vingt-sixième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes(HQ MOG TWENTY-SIX/QG 26e GOM)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - The Forks Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Riel/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Riel (HMCS RIEL/NCSM RIEL)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Dugald Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Naval Radio Section Red River/Section de Radio Navale de la Rivière Rogue
Supplementary Radio Section Cypress/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Cypress - Sprucewoods Naval Arsenal, SHILO, Manitoba
Supplementary Radio Section J.F. Flonatin/Section de Radio Supplémentaire J.F. Flonatin - FLIN FLON, Manitoba
Supplementary Radio Section Lower Red/Section de Radio Supplémentaire du Bas-Rogue - SELKIRK, Manitoba
Supplementary Radio Section Pembina/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Pembina - STEINBACH, Manitoba
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Chippawa/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Chippawa (HMCS CHIPPAWA/NCSM CHIPPAWA)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - The Forks Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Winnipeg Southwest Division/Division du Sud-Ouest de Winnipeg
Whitehorse Plains Division/Division de Plaines de Whitehorse - Rosser Road Military Annex and Naval Arsenal/Annexe Militaire et Arsenal Naval de la Chemin Rosser, SAINT FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, Manitoba
Winnipeg East Division/Division d'Est de Winnipeg - Dugald Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Winnipeg North Division/Division du Nord de Winnipeg - Mynarski Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Winnipeg Northwest Division/Division du Nord-Ouest de Winnipeg - Murray Park Naval Annex, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Macdonell/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Macdonnell (HMCS MACDONELL/NCSM MACDONNELL)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - SELKIRK, Manitoba
Selkirk Division/Division de Selkirk
Selkirk Division Detachment/Détachement de Division de Selkirk - DUNNOTAR, Manitoba
Beausejour Division/Division de Beausejour - BEAUSEJOUR, Manitoba
Rockwood Division/Division de Rockwood - STONEWALL, Manitoba
Saint Paul Division/Division de Saint Paul - Birds Hill Naval Annex, EAST SAINT PAUL, Manitoba
Springfield Division/Division de Springfield - OAKBANK, Manitoba
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pembina/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Pembina (HMCS PEMBINA/NCSM PEMBINA)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - STEINBACH, Manitoba
Steinbach South Division/Division du Sud de Steinbach
Emerson-Franklin Division/Division d'Emerson-Franklin - SAINT-PIERRE-JOLYS, Manitoba
Lorne Division/Division du Lorne - NOTRE-DAME-DE-LOURDES, Manitoba
Montcalm Division/Division de Montcalm - ALTONA, Manitoba
Southwest Manitoba Division/Division du Sud-Ouest de Manitoba - KILLARNEY, Manitoba
Stanley Division/Division de Stanley - WINKLER, Manitoba
Steinbach North Division/Division du Nord de Steinbach - NIVERVILLE, Manitoba
Winnipeg River Division/Division de la Rivière Winnipeg - LAC DU BONNET, Manitoba
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Reindeer (HMCS REINDEER)
Headquarters Division - FLIN FLON, Manitoba
Flin Flon Division
Bifrost Division - ARBORG, Manitoba
Creighton Division - CREIGHTON, Saskatchewan
Dauphin Division - DAUPHIN, Manitoba
Gimli Division - GIMLI, Manitoba
Interlake Division - PEGUIS, Manitoba
Sainte Rose Division - SAINTE ROSE DU LAC, Manitoba
Swan River Division - SWAN RIVER, Manitoba
The Pas Division - THE PAS, Manitoba
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Rosser (HMCS ROSSER)
Headquarters Division - BRANDON, Manitoba
Cornwallis Division
Cypress Division - Sprucewoods Naval Arsenal, SHILO, Manitoba
Minto Division - MINNEDOSA, Manitoba
Norfolk Division - MacGREGOR, Manitoba
Portage Division - Southport Naval Arsenal, PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba
Prairie Lake Division - ROBLIN, Manitoba
Prairie View Division - BIRTLE, Manitoba
Wallace Division - VIRDEN, Manitoba
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-six/Vingt-sixième Groupe de Maintenance de la Flotte (FMG TWENTY-SIX/26e GMF)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Dugald Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Fleet Maintenance Division Transcona/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Transcona
Fleet Maintenance Division Brandon - BRANDON, Manitoba
Fleet Maintenance Division Saint Paul/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Saint-Paul - Birds Hill Naval Annex, EAST SAINT PAUL, Manitoba
Harbour Support Group Twenty-six/Vingt-sixième Groupe d'Appui de Port (HSG TWENTY-SIX/26e GAP)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - BRANDON, Manitoba
Harbour Support Division Brandon
Harbour Support Division Stonewall/Division d'Appui de Port Stonewall - STONEWALL, Manitoba
Harbour Support Division Winnipeg/Division d'Appui de Port Winnipeg - The Forks Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Underwater Port Security Division Emerson/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins d'Emerson (UPSD EMERSON/DSPSM EMERSON)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - SAINT-PIERRE-JOLYS, Manitoba
Underwater Port Security Division Norway House (UPSD NORWAY HOUSE)
Headquarters - NORWAY HOUSE, Manitoba
Underwater Port Security Division Selkirk/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins de Selkirk (UPSD SELKIRK/DSPSM SELKIRK)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - SELKIRK, Manitoba
Underwater Port Security Division The Forks/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins des Forks (UPSD FORKS/DSPSM FORKS)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - The Forks Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Lord Selkirk's Band of the Keewatin Flotilla (LORD SELKIRK BAND)/Musique de la Comte de Selkirk pour la Flottille de Keewatin (MUS COMTE SELKIRK)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - The Forks Naval Arsenal, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Assiniboine (HMCS ASSINIBOINE) (PCH-403)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - BRANDON, Manitoba
Ship's Home Port - RICHMOND, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Brandon (HMCS BRANDON) (MM-710)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - BRANDON, Manitoba
Ship's Home Port - RICHMOND, British Columbia
Covering the vast majority of the home province of the CFL's Blue Bombers and the NHL's Jets, the Keewatin Flotilla would be the only true bilingual formation withing Naval Reserve Forces Pacific. Named in tribute to the old district of the Northwest Territories which once controlled almost all the land of modern-day Manitoba (and whose remaining post-1912 territory formed the mainland portion of Nunavut), the flotilla would be organized from Manitoba's sole naval unit, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Chippawa, which is headquartered near the "Forks" in downtown Winnipeg, where the Assiniboine River flows into the Red River that carries waters from the Dakotas and Minnesota north into Lake Winnipeg. After helping organize her new fleet of sister stone frigates, Chippawa would be made to concentrate recruiting within the provincial capital city as well as four neighbouring rural municipalities: Headingley, Cartier, Macdonald and Saint François Xavier. As well as helping organize the headquarters staff of the Keewatin Flotilla, Chippawa would become the host ship of Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty-six, the flotilla mobile maintenance team, personnel from which would deploy to both FMF Fraser and FMF Nanaimo whenever required. Chippawa would also serve as host ship for the Underwater Port Security Division The Forks, one of four such units in Manitoba. Given the presence of such large bodies of water as Lake Winnipeg, there would be ample places to train; even more so, given that the Red River could easily serve as a navigable waterway, keeping security issues in mind when it comes to American migrants coming up to Canada would always be on people's minds. Finally, Chippawa's band would be made an independent unit and be designated the Lord Selkirk's Band of the Keewatin Flotilla. Given that Winnipeg was initially settled under the auspices of Thomas Douglas, the fifth Earl of Selkirk, in the early part of the Nineteenth Century, both Chippawa and her old band would be seen as being spiritually adopted by the Clan Douglas, permitted to wear the clan tartan as part of the parade, service and mess dress uniforms. Such a right would also be extended to the Halifax-class frigate whose naval reserve augmentation division would be formed by Chippawa, HMCS Winnipeg. Even more so, Chippawa would be the host ship of the commissioning crew for the fourth of the Protecteur-class replenishment ships, HMCS Presentor, which would be built at Seaspan in Vancouver and serve with the Pacific Fleet. Naturally, Presentor's ship's company would also be allowed to wear the Douglas tartan with their uniforms.
Formed to recruit from the areas north of Winnipeg would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Macdonell, to be headquartered in the city of Selkirk on the Red River just north-northeast of the provincial capital. She is named in tribute to Miles Macdonell, the governor of the Red River Colony for the first ten years of its existence...though some of it was spent imprisoned thanks to the Hudson's Bay Company's main fur-trading rivals at the time, the Northwest Company, in Montréal. Because of that, the Clan MacDonell of Glengarry would spiritually adopt their relative's namesake ship as part of the clan, granting members of the ship's company to wear the clan tartan with their uniforms; doing so would make HMCS Macdonell an effective sister unit of the Army's Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders in southeastern Ontario...though their Winnipeg-based sister regiment, the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, would help units like Chippawa and Macdonell when it came to properly kitting them out. Macdonell would serve effectively as a general manning pool for the Navy as a whole, though she would be host ship for the Underwater Port Security Division Selkirk; said division would be tasked primarily to assist both the Canadian Forces School of Survival and Aeromedical Training at 17 Wing (CFB Winnipeg) and the Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue at 19 Wing (CFB Comox) when it comes to survival training for aircrew passing through the various training units of 2 Canadian Air Division. Macdonell's recruiting catchment zone includes the city of Selkirk, the towns of Beausjour, Stonewall and Teulon, the village of Dunnottar and the rural municipalities of Rockwood, Rosser, Woodlands, Brokenhead, Springfield, East and West Saint Paul, Saint Andrews and Saint Clements; her detachments would be based at Dunnottar, Beausejour, Stonewall, East Saint Paul and Oakbank.
The flotilla's primary unit beyond Chippawa however would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Rosser, which would be based in Brandon, the province's second-largest city. Tasked primarily to provide the naval reserve manning force for the Kingston-class coastal defence ship HMCS Brandon, Rosser would also be tasked to organize the commissioning crew of the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Assiniboine, which would be manned totally by naval reserve personnel and based out of FMF Fraser's docks in Richmond south of Vancouver; naturally, Assiniboine would also be built by metropolitan Vancouver's main naval shipyard. Also, Rosser would serve as host ship to the personnel of Harbour Support Group Twenty-six, which would deploy to assist either KHM Fraser or KHM Nanaimo whenever required. Rosser's secondary task would be to provide support to the Army's main camp in Manitoba, Canadian Forces Base Shilo; for that, the ship would have a detached division located at the base itself. Beyond that, she would be tasked to set up detached divisions at Minnedosa, MacGregor, Portage la Prairie, Roblin, Birtle and Virden. Rosser's total recruitment catchment area would include the cities of Brandon and Portage la Prairie; the towns of Gladstone, MacGregor, Treherne, Carberry, Rivers, Souris, Oak Lake, Virden, Birtle, Erickson, Hamiota, Minnidosa, Neepawa, Rapid City, Roblin, Rossburn and Russel; the villages of Binscarth, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Sainte Claude, Saint Lazare, Glenboro and Wawanesa; and the rural municipalities of Hillsbourg, Rossburn, Russel, Shell River, Shellmouth-Boulton, Silver Creek, Portage la Prairie, Grey, Glenella, Lakeview, Lansdowne, North and South Norfolk, Victoria, Westbourne, Archie, Birtle, Blanchard, Clanwilliam, Ellice, Hamiota, Harrison, Langford, Miniota, Minto, Odana, Park, Rosedale, Saskatchewan, Shoal Lake, Strathclair, Pipestone, Sifton, Wallace, Woodworth, Cornwallis, Daly, Elton, Glenwood, North and South Cypress, Oakland and Whitehead. As the old base is located near Rosser, she would be tasked to assisting the Air Force in restoring Canadian Forces Base Rivers to active service again as a relief training field for 2 Canadian Air Division and possible future active base. Rosser gets her name from former United States Army and Confederate States Army officer BG (USA)/MG (CSA) Thomas "Tex" Rosser, who served post-Civil War as chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Naturally, Rosser the ship wouldn't bear any Confederate symbology out of respect for Canadian sensibilities, though grey and dark blue would be her ship's colours.
Covering central and western Manitoba would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Reindeer, which would be headquartered in the rather strangely-named city of Flin Flon. Like her sister unit HMCS Meridian, Reindeer would have the unique tasking of recruiting across provincial boundaries. Flin Flon sits right on the border between Manitoba and Saskatchean and has many of the same issues that confronts the city of Lloydminster on the other side of the Red Lily Province; this comes out quite apparent when one has to deal with daylight savings times (Saskatchewan doesn't observe DST while Manitoba does). Because of this, Reindeer would be given a recruiting catchment area that covers not just Flin Flon, but the city of Dauphin; the towns of Arborg, Winnipeg Beach, Sainte Rose du Lac, Grandview, Gilbert Plains, Minitonas, Swan River, Grand Rapids, Snow Lake and The Pas; the villages of Riverton, Ethelbert, McCreary, Winnipegosis, Benito and Bowsman; the rural municipalities of Armstrong, Bifrost, Coldwell, Ericksdale, Fisher, Gimli, Grahamdale, Siglunes, Saint Laurent, Alonsa, Dauphin, Ethelbert, Gilbert Plains, Grandview, Lawrence, McCreary, Mossie River, Ochre River, Sainte Rose, Minitonas, Mountain, Swan River and Kelsey; and all unorganized areas and First Nations contained within the limits of Manitoba census division #s 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 as well as the southern areas of Census Division #22 close to the end of Lake Winnipeg. In Saskatchewan, the province's part of Flin Flon would also be part of Reindeer's recruitment zone, as would the town of Creighton and all immediate areas within Census Division #18 that can be reached by road to Flin Flon. To allow for maximum recruitment, Reindeer would organized detached divisions in Creighton in Saskatchewan as well as Arborg, Dauphin, Gimli, the Peguis First Nation, Sainte Rose du Lac, Swan River and The Pas. Reindeer would also have a detachment at Norway House at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg, which would host the Underwater Port Security Division Norway House; however, the detachment and the UPSD would actually be lodger units of HMCS Burntwood (as part of the Northeast Flotilla). Beyond supporting the elements of 4 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group based in Manitoba (alongside Burntwood), Reindeer would serve as the host ship to the commissioning crew of the Superior-class submarine SMCSM Manitoba. One can easily guess where Reindeer gets her name from.
Sited along the border with Minnesota, North Dakota and the southern part of the border with Ontario would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Pembina, headquartered in Steinbach southeast of Winnipeg at the intersections of Provincial Trunk Highways 12 and 52. As one of the several Naval Reserve units covering the border with the United States, Pembina would be tasked to assist the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency with border security; she would also have a language school for American migrants wanting to serve in the Canadian Forces and get away from Jim Crow laws. Atop her headquarters at Steinbach, Pembina would have detached divisions at Saint-Pierre-Jolys, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Altona, Killarney, Winkler, Niverville and Lac du Bonnet. Atop Steinbach, her recruiting catchment zone includes the cities of Winkler and Morden; the towns of Manitou, Pilot Mound, Altona, Carman, Emerson, Gretna, Morris, Plum Coulee, Niverville, Sainte Anne, Lac du Bonnet, Powerview-Pine Falls and Melita; the villages of Cartwright, Crystal City, Somerset, Pinawa and Saint-Pierre-Jolys; the rural municipalities of Boissevain-Morton, Brenda-Waskada, Deloraine-Winchester, Grassland, Killarney-Turtle Mountain, Prairie Lakes, Two Borders, Argyle, Lorne, Louise, Pembina, Roblin, Dufferin, Montcalm, Morris, Rhineland, Roland, Stanley, Thompson, De Salaberry, Franklin, Hanover, La Broquerie, Ritchot, Sainte Anne, Taché, Alexander, Lac du Bonnet, Piney, Reynolds, Stuartburn, Victoria Beach and Whitemouth; and all First Nations and unincorporated areas within the territories of census division #s 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Outside her support task to the RCMP and CBSA, Pembina would also be tasked to organized the commissioning crew of the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Morden (to be built by FMF Fraser) as well as the Underwater Port Security Division Emerson, which would help in guarding both the upper reach of the Red River as well as the Red River Floodway that drains excess spring melt water past Winnipeg into Lake Winnipeg. Pembina gets her name from the Algonquin term for the squashberry (Viburnum edule); such is also a common name used in this part of North America.
The final main unit of the flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Riel, the formation's communications hub. Headquartered in the eastern boroughs of Winnipeg, she would have supplementary radio sections at Shilo, Flin Flon, Selkirk and Steinbach. Of course, Riel gets her name from the infamous Louis Riel, the Métis leader who - despite his later actions in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 which later saw him hanged - can be clearly seen as the true founder of modern Manitoba.
The flotilla's seagoing assets would include the Kingston-class coastal defence ship HMCS Brandon and the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Assiniboine...but with the commissioning crews of THREE new navy ships also mustering there along with the support given to HMCS Winnipeg, sailors in the formation would get many chances to head out to sea...
Next: The Naval Reserves in the territories!
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Post by pyeknu on Jun 15, 2019 19:13:03 GMT
And the final elements of the Naval Reserves covering the Dominion's northern frontier...
NAVAL RESERVE FORCES NORTH/FORCES DE LA RÉSERVE NAVALE DU NORD
Commodore, Naval Reserve Forces North/Commodore de la Forces de la Réserve Navale du Nord (CMDRE NAVRESNOR/CMDRE RÉSNAVNORD)
Headquarters (Forward)/Quartier-Général (Avant) - Evans Complex, YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories
Headquarters (Rear)/Quartier-Général (Arrière) - Fort McMurray Naval Arsenal, WOOD BUFFALO REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Kuukpak/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Kuukpak (HMCS KUUKPAK/NCSM KUUKPAK)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Fort McMurray Naval Arsenal, WOOD BUFFALO REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, Alberta
Naval Radio Section/Section de Radio Navale
Operations Division/Division des Opérations
Naval Engineering Division/Division de Génie Navale
Supply and Administration Division/Division d'Appui et d'Administration
Sea Training Division/Division d'Entraînement Maritime
The Naval Reserves for the three northern territories and the northern extremities of five provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec) would, by simple nature of the fact that the overall recruitment catchment zone has only 727,005 persons living there according to the 2018 estimates, be much smaller than the naval reserve forces located in the southern parts of Canada's provinces. Because of this, it was decided to just divide the area into two flotilla recruiting zones, with the boundary between the Northwest Territories/Nunavut and Saskatchewan/Manitoba being the demarcation line between what would eventually become Maritime Operations Group Twenty and what would become la Vingt-septième Group des Opérations Maritimes. And like other elements of the Navy's shore-based forces in this region of the country as note what happened with the naval security teams formed to work in the territories, the concepts of "forward" and "rear" areas of operation would be pursued, using the greater population numbers within the provinces to help with manning issues. To that end, the flag officer in charge of Naval Reserves North would just be a commodore in rank. Operationally, he would be subordinate to both the rear admiral in charge of Maritime Forces North at Nanisivik/Ottawa as well as the commander of Joint Task Force North, which would be an Air Force flag officer that would be promoted to lieutenant general and be allowed to take charge of ALL defence issues concerning the territories and the surrounding waters. Given the need now to plow through increasing levels of snow and ice to get vital supplies to the various northern towns, villages and hamlets, the Forces would be very busy in the foreseeable future with aid to the civilian power missions.
Acting as flagship for the Naval Reserves in the north would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Kuukpak, which would have primary quarters in the urban settlement of Fort McMurray within the Wood Buffalo Regional Municipality in northeast Alberta and forward quarters at the Evans Complex in Yellowknife on the shores of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. This was done for two simple reasons. Given the need to have an operational Naval Reserve ship within Yellowknife itself (with the Northwest Territories only having a total population of 44,598 persons to recruit from), tapping into the much larger population of the Wood Buffalo area of northeast Alberta (population of 71,589 persons) would be more prudent. However, the lack of an all-season road connecting Fort McMurray with Fort Smith at the border between Alberta and the NWT was immediately seen as a problem...until elements of the Navy's own 194 Construction Engineer Regiment (Alberta Regiment) came to make the winter road between Fort Smith south to near Fort McKay a full highway; this would link Alberta Highway 63 with Northwest Territories Highway 5. This gave the Forces TWO land routes into the Northwest Territories from Alberta; the only pre-Shift all-weather route was the Mackenzie Highway which connects Alberta Highway 2 (to Edmonton and Calgary) via Alberta Highway 35 north to Northwest Territories Highway 1 near Indian Cabins AB/Grumbler NWT, then heads north to near Fort Providence near the Mackenzie River, where NWT Highway 3 takes any traveller straight into Yellowknife. Thanks to the work of so many African Americans who had joined 194 Regiment in building a second all-weather land link into the Northwest Territories, the extended AB Highway 63/NWT Highway 5 was designated the William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Freedom Highway in honour of the famous Massachusite and adopted Georgian civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. It was he who urged fellow African-Americans to migrate en masse into Canada after the Shift to see new opportunities in a much freer land...but that's another story.
Even before the Du Bois Freedom Highway was fully operational, Kuukpak was stood up as a tender to HMCS Nonsuch in Edmonton and allowed to commence the massive expansion of the Naval Reserves in the northern territories. Originally, she was to be named HMCS Dehcho (which literally means "big river"), in honour of the Mackenzie River (thus freeing the name Mackenzie to be used on a future Saguenay-class corvette). However, as such could potentially cause confusion with the Superior-class submarine HMCS/M Tucho (the Dené name for Great Slave Lake), it was decided to use the Inuvialuktun term for the Mackenzie River (which literally means "great river"); even if Kuukpak the ship is located on a tributary of the Mackenzie, she recruits from part of the second-largest river drainage basin in North America behind the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river network covering two-thirds of the continental United States. Like other stone frigate "flagships" of the larger naval formations, Kuukpak comes complete with an internal radio section, operations and engineering staffs, supply and administration personnel and a sea training group to coordinate exercises with actual warships on the open ocean no matter if it's the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Arctic or Hudson Bay. And while Kuukpak would have most of her ship's company in Fort McMurray, a detachment would always be in Yellowknife alongside the headquarters of JTF(N).
And now, the Naval Reserves for the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and northern British Columbia and Alberta...
NORTHWEST FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Northwest Flotilla/Headquarters Twentieth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] NORWESTFLOT/HQ MOG TWENTY)
Headquarters - Fort McMurray Naval Arsenal, WOOD BUFFALO REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Alcan (HMCS ALCAN)
Headquarters Division - DAWSON CREEK, British Columbia
Naval Radio Section Dawson Creek
Supplementary Radio Section Inuvik - INUVIK, Northwest Territories
Supplementary Radio Section Klondike - DAWSON CITY, Yukon
Supplementary Radio Section Northern Rockies - FORT NELSON, British Columbia
Supplementary Radio Section Northwest Territories - Evans Complex, YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories
Supplementary Radio Section Sitkine - GOOD HOPE LAKE, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Sombak'è (HMCS SOMBAK'È)
Headquarters Division - Evans Complex, YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories
Great Slave Lake Division
Fort Smith Division - FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories
Inuvik Division - INUVIK, Northwest Territories
Inuvik Division Detachment Ikahuak - SACHS HARBOUR, Northwest Territories
North Wood Buffalo Division - Fort Chipewyan Naval Annex, WOOD BUFFALO REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, Alberta
South Wood Buffalo Division - Fort McMurray Naval Arsenal, WOOD BUFFALO REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Primrose (HMCS PRIMROSE)
Headquarters Division - Medley Naval Arsenal, COLD LAKE, Alberta
Bonnyville Division
Athabasca Division - ATHABASCA, Alberta
Lac La Biche Division - LAC LA BICHE, Alberta
Lake and Butte Division - SAINT WALBURG, Saskatchewan
Meadow Lake Division - MEADOW LAKE, Saskatchewan
Primrose Division - LA LOCHE, Saskatchewan
Westlock Division - WESTLOCK, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Steele (HMCS STEELE)
Headquarters Division - WHITEHORSE, Yukon
Canyon City Division
Klondike Division - DAWSON CITY, Yukon
Klondike Division Detachment North Yukon - OLD CROW, Yukon
Northern Rockies Division - FORT NELSON, British Columbia
Sitkine Division - GOOD HOPE LAKE, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Unjegah (HMCS UNJEGAH)
Headquarters Division - FORT SAINT JOHN, British Columbia
Upper Peace Division
Clear Hills Division - MANNING, Alberta
Lower Peace Division - PEACE RIVER, Alberta
Mackenzie Division - HIGH RIVER, Alberta
Middle Peace Division - DAWSON CREEK, British Columbia
Pine River Division - CHETWYND, British Columbia
Spirit River Division - FAIRVIEW, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty (FMG TWENTY)
Headquarters Division - WESTLOCK, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Division Westlock
Fleet Maintenance Division Athabasca - Mill Woods Naval Arsenal, EDMONTON, Alberta
Fleet Maintenance Division Peace River - DAWSON CREEK, British Columbia
Harbour Support Group Twenty (HSG TWENTY)
Headquarters Division - LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta/Saskatchewan
Harbour Support Division Alsask
Harbour Support Division Lac La Biche - LAC LA BICHE, Alberta
Harbour Support Division Peace River - FORT SAINT JOHN, British Columbia
The Northwest Flotilla Band (NWFLOT BAND)
Headquarters - Fort McMurray Naval Arsenal, WOOD BUFFALO REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY, Alberta
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Mackenzie (HMCS MACKENZIE) (PCH-419)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Evans Complex, YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Yukon (HMCS YUKON) (PCH-421)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - WHITEHORSE, Yukon
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Kitlineq (HMCS KITLINEQ) (MCMV-718)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - INUVIK, Northwest Territories
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Whitehorse (HMCS WHITEHORSE) (MM-705)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - WHITEHORSE, Yukon
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Yellowknife (HMCS YELLOWKNIFE) (MM-706)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Evans Complex, YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories
Ship's Home Port - PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
The Northwest Flotilla would cover the second largest geographic area of any Naval Reserve operational flotilla. Atop the whole of the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the flotilla's recruitment catchment zone includes the British Columbia regional district of Peace River, the regional municipality of Northern Rockies and the sparsely-populated Sitkine Region forming the northwest corner of the province...as well as the territories of Census Division #s 12 and 16, part of the territory of Census Division #19 as well as the vast majority of the territory covered by Census Division #17 in Alberta; in total, the area covered is 2,469,132 square kilometres! And while there is something of a decent road network connecting the various parts of this region - especially with the Du Bois Freedom Highway being built to connect Fort Smith with Fort McMurray - the main way that crews of various ships in the flotilla would be able to interact with each other is to either travel for hours on road or wait for good conditions to FLY to each other's units!
Leading this formation would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Sombak'è, which would effectively be the reverse twin of HMCS Kuukpak. While Kuukpak would be headquartered in Fort McMurray with "forward" headquarters at Yellowknife, Sombak'è would be headquartered in Yellowknife while having a detached division in Fort McMurray! Beyond that, the ship who got her name from the Dené term for Yellowknife itself (meaning "where the money is" and is properly written as Sǫ̀mbak'è) would establish divisions at Inuvik, Fort Smith and Fort Chipewyan near Fort McMurray; the Inuvik Division would also have a detachment based at Sachs Harbour (also known as Ikahuak) on Banks Island to serve as a base for local patrols of 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group when they do sovereignty patrols in the high Arctic islands and the western exit of the Northwest Passage. Atop acting as host ship to Kuukpak as well as all Navy units in northeast Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Sombak'è would be tasked to provide the naval reserve augmentation division of her home city's namesake ship, the Kingston-class coastal defence ship HMCS Yellowknife; said vessel would eventually regulated to full-time naval reserve service and based out of Prince Rupert. Even more so, Sombak'è would provide the commissioning crews of the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessel HMCS Kitlineq (named after Victoria Island), the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Mackenzie (named after the river, of course) and THREE of the Superior-class attack submarines once they are built in the mid-1940s: HMC Submarines Sahtú (named after Great Bear Lake), Tucho (named after Great Slave Lake) and Adhapaskaw (named after Lake Athabasca near Fort McMurray). With the experience in operating in Arctic conditions, the chances would be good that the sailors of Sombak'è would provide a core of submariners when it comes time to take Canada's first nuclear submarine to sea whenever that comes in the distant future.
Also to be formed at Fort McMurray would be The Northwest Flotilla Band, the formation's musical ambassadors.
Sombak'è's sister unit covering the Yukon and the Sitkine Region and the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality in British Columbia would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Steele, headquartered at the old site of RCAF Station Whitehorse (now the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport). As well as basing headquarters and Canyon City Division in Whitehorse, Steele would have detachments at Dawson City and Old Crow in the Yukon, Good Hope Lake in the Sitkine Region of British Columbia and Fort Nelson in the Northern Rockies municipality. Unlike her sistership, ground transportation issues wouldn't really crop up; personnel from the Sitkine Division can travel by British Columbia/Yukon Highway 37 (the Stewart-Cassiar Highway) to the Alaska Highway (Yukon Highway 1/British Columbia Highway 97) to go to Whitehorse, the Northern Rockies Division is ON the Alaska Highway and the Klondike Division can be reached via Yukon Highways 2 and 9 from Whitehorse to Dawson City. The only isolated element of Steele's ship's company would be the Old Crow detachment. However, as a part of the expansion of the Dominion's highway network in the territories, elements of 211 Construction Engineer Regiment (American Rangers) from British Columbia would be tasked to build a new road from Yukon Highway 5 (the Dempster Highway) along the north shore of the Miner River to Old Crow, thus allow goods and supplies to be brought by road in lieu of air; this would be designated Yukon Highway 25 and be named the Lost Patrol Highway in honour of several Northwest Mounted Police personnel who died in the region in the winter of 1911. Steele gets her name from NWMP Superintendent (and later Canadian Army major general) Sam Steele, one of the Force's most respected lawmen and the man who ensured peace would prevail in the Yukon during the exciting years of the Klondike Gold Rush from 1896-99. Steele the ship would be required to provide the naval reserve augmentation crew of the Kingston-class coastal defence ship HMCS Whitehorse and help organize the commissioning crew of the Saguenay-class helicopter frigate HMCS Yukon.
To arise from the Peace River Regional District of British Columbia and the areas of Alberta census division #s 19 and 17 not in the catchment area of the Athabasca Flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Unjegah, headquartered at Fort Saint John on the Alaska Highway itself near its terminus in Dawson Creek. Effectively assigned as a reserve manning pool for the Navy as a whole, Unjegah would also serve as a support unit to American personnel who would come north to build a "replacement" to the Alaska Highway from the Canadian border to Fairbanks, thus allow the territory to be defended against possible Soviet or imperial Japanese incursions; in this, they would be helped by the personnel of 211 Construction Engineer Regiment. The ship would be permitted to set up divisions in the British Columbia towns of Dawson Creek and Chetwynd to cover the Peace River Regional District as well as the Alberta towns of Manning, Peace River, High River and Fairview, covering the northwest element of the whole province. Unjegah gets her name from a First Nations term for the Peace River that flows through the area and connects the territory to the Slave River near Fort McMurray; as the Mackenzie River is called by the Dené, the local aboriginal inhabitants gave the Peace the name "big river".
The final operational unit of the flotilla would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Primrose, based at a new naval arsenal on the grounds of CFB Cold Lake just north of Lloydminster. With the primary operational duty to support operations at 4 Wing on the base (including the vast Cold Lake Air Weapons Range that gobbles up 1.17 million hectares [11,700 square kilometres] of territory straddling the Alberta/Saskatchewan border), Primrose would have detached divisions located at Athabasca, Lac La Biche and Westlock in Alberta as well as Saint Walburg, Meadow Lake and La Loche in Saskatchewan; the latter three divisions would recruit from the central-west sector of the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District. In this catchment area, the actual border between Primrose and her sister unit HMCS Meridian in Lloydminster gets a little hazed; sub-units of both ships would be in the other's general recruiting territory as lodger units, such as the headquarters division and Alsask Division of Harbour Support Group Twenty, which would be based in Lloydminster as a lodger unit of Meridian. Still, given that both Primrose and Meridian are dedicated to supporting the Canadian Pacific Fleet, such a division is not really of importance. Primrose is also host ship of Fleet Maintenance Group Twenty, which would be dedicated to sending marine engineers to CFB Prince Rupert to augment FMF Nanaimo's work staff there. She gets her name from Primrose Lake, which is a lake close to Cold Lake on the inter-provincial border which is totally encompassed by the CLAWR; the air range is also sometimes called the "Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range".
Tying the whole flotilla together would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Alcan, which is headquartered in Dawson Creek at the southern end of the Alaska Highway. She gets her name from the alternate term for that vital strategic route leading into the Last Frontier, the Alcan Highway ("Alcan" meaning "ALaska-CANada"). The Northwest Flotilla's communications unit would have supplementary radio sections located in Inuvik, Dawson City, Fort Nelson, Yellowknife and Good Hope Lake, providing a perfect backup to the intensive communications network that keeps the Yukon and the Northwest Territories tied to the rest of Canada.
Unlike flotillas in the southern part of the country, the Northwest Flotilla is not assigned any underwater port security divisions at this time; given the return of harsh Arctic conditions in the region, such isn't seen as necessary for the time being. As noted before, the flotilla's seagoing assets would include the Kingston-class coastal defence ships HMC Ships Whitehorse and Yellowknife, the Saguenay-class helicopter corvettes HMC Ships Mackenzie and Yukon and the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessel HMCS Kitlineq. All would be based at CFB Prince Rupert for easy access into the Pacific Ocean...and if the weather is kind, the navigable parts of the Arctic Ocean as well.
Next: The other half of the Naval Reserves in the northern territories...
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