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Post by pyeknu on May 21, 2019 17:03:30 GMT
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Post by pyeknu on May 21, 2019 18:01:47 GMT
Now, let's head across the Bay of Fundy to look at our first bilingual Naval Reserve flotilla...
NEW BRUNSWICK FLOTILLA/FLOTTILLE DU NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK
Captain (Navy), New Brunswick Flotilla/Capitaine de Vaisseau, Flottille du Nouveau-Brunswick (CAPT[N] NB FLOT/CAPV FLOT N-B)
Headquarters Third Maritime Operations Group/Quartier-Général de la Troisième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (HQ MOG THREE/QG 3e GOM)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Chesley Drive Naval Arsenal, SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Coverdale/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Coverdale (HMCS COVERDALE/NCSM COVERDALE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - RIVERVIEW, New Brunswick
Naval Radio Section Coverdale/Section de Radio Navale Coverdale
Supplementary Radio Section Beaverbrook - FREDERICTON, New Brunswick
Supplementary Radio Section Campobello - WILSONS BEACH, New Brunswick
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Shippagan - SHIPPAGAN, New Brunswick
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Brunswicker (HMCS BRUNSWICKER)
Headquarters Division - Chesley Drive Naval Arsenal, SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
Saint John Division
Charlotte Division - Union Street Militia Annex and Naval Arsenal, SAINT STEPHEN, New Brunswick
Kings Division - Meenans Cove Militia Annex and Naval Arsenal, QUISPAMSIS, New Brunswick
Sussex Division - SUSSEX, New Brunswick
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nashwaak (HMCS NASHWAAK)
Headquarters Division - FREDERICTON, New Brunswick
York Division
Carleton Division - WOODSTOCK, New Brunswick
Victoria Division - GRAND FALLS, New Brunswick
Sunbury Division - OROMOCTO, New Brunswick
Queens Division - MINTO, New Brunswick
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Petitcodiac/His Majesty's Canadian Ship Petitcodiac (NCSM PETITCODIAC/HMCS PETITCODIAC)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - MONCTON, New Brunswick
Division de Westmorland
Détachement de Division de Westmorland (Dieppe) - DIEPPE, New Brunswick
Détachement de Division de Westmorland (Shediac) - SHEDIAC, New Brunswick
Westmorland Division Detachment (Sackville) - SACKVILLE, New Brunswick
Albert Division - RIVERVIEW, New Brunswick
Division de Kent - BOUCTOUCHE, New Brunswick
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Listuguj/His Majesty's Canadian Ship Listuguj (NCSM LISTUGUJ/HMCS LISTUGUJ)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - BATHURST, New Brunswick
Division de Gloucester
Détachement de Division de Gloucester (Shippagan) - SHIPPAGAN, New Brunswick
Division de Madawaska - EDMUNDSTON, New Brunswick
Northumberland Division - MIRAMICHI, New Brunswick
Division de Restigouche - CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Facility Saint John/Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Saint John (FMF SAINT JOHN/IMF SAINT JOHN)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Chesley Drive Naval Arsenal, SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Saint John
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Moncton - MONCTON, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Riverview - RIVERVIEW, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Saint Croix - Union Street Militia Annex and Naval Arsenal, SAINT STEPHEN, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Sussex - SUSSEX, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Minto - MINTO, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Fredericton - FREDERICTON, New Brunswick
Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Bathurst/Fleet Maintenance Facility Bathurst (IMF BATHURST/FMF BATHURST)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - BATHURST, New Brunswick
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Bathurst
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Campbellton - CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Chatham - MIRAMICHI, New Brunswick
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Bouctouche - BOUCTOUCHE, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Woodstock - WOODSTOCK, New Brunswick
Fleet Maintenance Division Grand Falls/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Grand-Sault - GRAND FALLS, New Brunswick
King's Harbour Master Saint John (KHM SAINT JOHN)
Headquarters Division - Chesley Drive Naval Arsenal, SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
Harbour Support Division Kings - Meenans Cove Militia Annex and Naval Arsenal, QUISPAMSIS, New Brunswick
Harbour Support Division Sunbury - OROMOCTO, New Brunswick
Harbour Support Division York - FREDERICTON, New Brunswick
Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Bathurst/King's Harbour Master Bathurst (CPSM BATHURST/KHM BATHURST)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - BATHURST, New Brunswick
Division d'Appui de Port Gloucester - BATHURST, New Brunswick
Harbour Support Division Northumberland - CHATHAM, New Brunswick
Harbour Support Division Carleton - WOODSTOCK, New Brunswick
Underwater Port Security Division Saint John (UPSD SAINT JOHN)
Headquarters - Chesley Drive Naval Arsenal, SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
Underwater Port Security Division Quispamsis (UPSD QUISPAMSIS)
Headquarters - Meenans Cove Militia Annex and Naval Arsenal, QUISPAMSIS, New Brunswick
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-marins Shippagan (DSPSM SHIPPAGAN)
Quartier-Général - SHIPPAGAN, New Brunswick
New Brunswick Flotilla Band/Musique de la Flottille du Nouveau-Brunswick (NBF BAND/MUS FN-B)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Chesley Drive Naval Arsenal, SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Restigouche (NCSM RESTIGOUCHE) (PCH-405)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick
Quartier Maritime de Navire - BATHURST, New Brunswick
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Saint Francis (NCSM SAINT FRANCIS) (PCH-416)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - EDMUNSTON, New Brunswick
Quartier Maritime de Navire - BATHURST, New Brunswick
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Saint Croix (HMCS SAINT CROIX) (PCH-417)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - SAINT STEPHEN, New Brunswick
Ship's Home Port - SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Moncton (NCSM MONCTON) (MM-708)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - MONCTON, New Brunswick
Quartier Maritime de Navire - SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
As with HMCS Scotian and the units that would eventually spring from her to cover all of New Brunswick, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Brunswicker in Saint John would likewise become the place where all of the New Brunswick Flotilla would arise. Given the bilingual nature of the province the flotilla would recruit from, there would be both English-speaking and French-speaking units; the general way of dividing things would be from a northwest to southeast axis from Grand Falls (Grand-Sault) on the Saint John River where the border with Maine intersects it down to Riverdale across from Moncton and beyond to Sackville on the Isthmus of Chignecto connecting Nova Scotia to the rest of North America. Brunswicker would have detachments at Saint Stephen, Quispamsis and Sussex.
Where once Brunswicker would have covered all of New Brunswick, after the Shift, it would concentrate its recruiting area in the counties of Saint John, Charlotte, Kings and Sussex on the Bay of Fundy coastline from the border with Maine east to the entrance of Chignecto Bay. Directly recruiting from Brunswicker after the organization of the other naval reserve units listed above would be the Acoustic Data Analysis Centre Saint John in Quispamsis serving under HMCS Kwimu in Halifax for the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command...and the core element of Fleet Maintenance Facility Saint John, which would take over the dry dock where most of the first and second-flight Halifax-class frigates were built in the 1990s. Said facility would be taken over from the Irving Group (who bought out Saint John Shipbuilding) and would be refurbished and put back into commission building new warships for the navy, starting with the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessels, then moving on to other vital construction. To support FMF Saint John would be fleet maintenance divisions recruited from Moncton to Saint Stephen to Fredericton. Also being raised from Brunswicker would be King's Harbour Master Saint John, which would charter several civilian tugs and manage all maritime traffic in the northern half of the Bay of Fundy. To be based with FMF Saint John would be the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Saint Croix and the Kingston-class coastal patrol ship NCSM Moncton.
The primary unit formed from Brunswicker's first echelon of tenders would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Petitcodiac, which would take up residence in the Moncton Garrison (the former Canadian Forces Base Moncton). Named in honour of the Petitcodiac River where Moncton is situated on, the unit would recruit from the counties of Westmoreland, Albert and Kent covering New Brunswick's southeast area; detachments of the Westmoreland Division would be based at Dieppe and Shediac (both French-speaking) and Sackville (English-speaking). Petitcodiac would be the effective "mother ship" of a vast number of units, including providing naval reserve augmentation divisions to several active warships and those soon to be constructed.
Covering central-west New Brunswick is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nashwaak, headquartered in Fredericton. The unit would recruit from the counties of York, Victoria, Carleton, Sunbury and Queens; it would have detachments based out of Woodstock, Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, Minto and Oromocto/Canadian Forces Base Gagetown. Nashwaak, named after the old French fort built where Fredericton stands today that served as the capital of Acadia in the old colonial days, would end up serving as a support unit for several specialist activities: The Fleet Reconnaissance Training Team Atlantic under HMCS Kwimu, Fleet Diving Unit Fredericton under HMCS O'Neill and the Naval Security Team Nashwaak under HMCS McNab would be co-located with Fredericton's new Naval Reserve unit.
Covering the northern and northeastern parts of the province would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Listuguj, headquartered at Bathurst on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence coast just north of the entrance of Northumberland Sound separating New Brunswick from Prince Edward Island. Mostly French-speaking, this unit would have divisions in Edmunston, Miramichi and Campbellton with a small detachment of the main unit at Shippagan on the Acadian Peninsula overlooking Chaleur Bay and the estuary of the Restigouche River; the recruiting area for the unit would be the counties of Gloucester, Madawaska, Restigouche and Northumberland. Listuguj - taking its name for the Mi'kmaq term for the Restigouche River - would be primarily responsible for supporting l'Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Bathurst, New Brunswick's second naval reserve maintenance facility. Not only would the facility (which would have a graving dock prepared for it by elements of 2 Construction Engineer Regiment) serve as the permanent home for two of the four ships allocated to the New Brunswick Flotilla (the Saguenay-class helicopter corvettes Navires CSM Restigouche and Saint Francis), but IMF Bathurst would also serve as a wintering home for many naval reserve vessels nominally based in the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River valley. Naturally, Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Bathurst would handle all tugboat chartering and ship movements for Chaleur Bay and the Restigouche estuary.
As with the other Naval Reserve flotilla, a specialist communications unit would serve as the links between the other units as well as other flotillas. His Majesty's Canadian Ship Coverdale, located in Riverview across the Petitcodiac from Moncton, would be stood up again to perform those duties. The unit was formed as a high-frequency direction finding station during World War Two IOTL and served throughout the Cold War, being stood down in 1971. Atop the main naval radio section at Riverdale, supplementary stations would be located in Fredericton (alongside the headquarters division of Nashwaak), Shippigan (alongside both Centre d'Analyse des Données Acoustiques Shippagan under HMCS Kwimu and one of the New Brunswick Flotilla's underwater port security divisions) and Campobello Island near the border with Maine; this supplementary radio section would have the responsibility of linking the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve with the units of the United States Navy concentrated at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on the border between Maine and New Hampshire. This would allow elements of the New Brunswick Flotilla to train alongside elements of the United States Navy, especially any new construction emerging from Portsmouth.
Atop the named ships, the two fleet maintenance units and the two harbour master units, the flotilla would be assigned three underwater port security divisions, two made adjunct to Brunswicker to cover Saint John Harbour and one adjunct to Listuguj to cover Chaleur Bay.
Finally, the New Brunswick Flotilla Band would serve as the formation's musical ambassadors, going wherever they would be requested to go.
Next: We jump across the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to see what's on the Rock and in Labrador!
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Post by pyeknu on May 22, 2019 10:53:58 GMT
And now, on the east side of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Newfoundland and Labrador Flotilla/Headquarters Eighth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] NF&L FLOT/HQ MOG EIGHT)
Headquarters - SAINT JOHN'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Conception Bay (HMCS CONCEPTION BAY)
Headquarters Division - HARBOUR GRACE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Naval Radio Section Harbour Grace
Supplementary Radio Section Argentia - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
Supplementary Radio Section Notre Dame - TWILLINGATE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Supplementary Radio Section Cape Saint George - STEPHENVILLE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Supplementary Radio Section Belle Isle - SAINT ANTHONY, Newfoundland and Labrador
Supplementary Radio Section Melville Inlet - HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Cabot (HMCS CABOT)
Headquarters Division - SAINT JOHN'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
Signal Hill Division
Signal Hill Division Detachment Conception Bay - HARBOUR GRACE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Signal Hill Division Detachment Placentia - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
Burin Division - MARYSTOWN, Newfoundland and Labrador
Bonavista Division - CLARENVILLE, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caribou (HMCS CARIBOU)
Headquarters Division - CORNER BROOK, Newfoundland and Labrador
Humber Valley Division
Saint George's Division - STEPHENVILLE, Newfoundland and Labrador
South Coast Division - CHANNEL PORT-AUX-BASQUES, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Excalibur (HMCS EXCALIBUR)
Headquarters Division - GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, Newfoundland and Labrador
Central Newfoundland Division
Notre Dame Division - TWILLINGATE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Northern Peninsula Division - SAINT ANTHONY, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Aivitok (HMCS AIVITOK)
Headquarters Division - HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Newfoundland and Labrador
Central Labrador Division
Western Labrador Division - LABRADOR CITY, Newfoundland and Labrador
Nunatsiavut Division - NAIN, Newfoundland and Labrador
Fleet Maintenance Facility Avalon (FMF AVALON)
Headquarters - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
Avalon Division
Bonavista Division - CLARENVILLE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Detachment Corner Brook - CORNER BROOK, Newfoundland and Labrador
Humber Valley Division
Central Newfoundland Division - GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, Newfoundland and Labrador
South Shore Division - CHANNEL PORT-AUX-BASQUES, Newfoundland and Labrador
Detachment Labrador - HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador Division
King's Harbour Master Argentia (KHM ARGENTIA)
Headquarters Division - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
Harbour Support Division Placentia
Harbour Support Division Corner Brook - CORNER BROOK, Newfoundland and Labrador
Harbour Support Division Melville Inlet - HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Newfoundland and Labrador
Submarine Airmobile Assistance Team Corner Brook (SAAT CORNER BROOK)
Headquarters - CORNER BROOK, Newfoundland and Labrador
Underwater Port Security Division Argentia (UPSD ARGENTIA)
Headquarters - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
Underwater Port Security Division Cape Saint George (UPSD CAPE ST GEORGE)
Headquarters - STEPHENVILLE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Underwater Port Security Division Channel Port-aux-Basques (UPSD CPAB)
Headquarters - CHANNEL PORT-AUX-BASQUES, Newfoundland and Labrador
Underwater Port Security Division Notre Dame (UPSD NOTRE DAME)
Headquarters - TWILLINGATE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Underwater Port Security Division Saint John's (UPSD SAINT JOHN'S)
Headquarters - SAINT JOHN'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador Flotilla Band (NLF BAND)
Headquarters - SAINT JOHN'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Terra Nova (HMCS TERRA NOVA) (PCH-418)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - CLARENVILLE, Newfoundland and Labrador
Ship's Home Port - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Goose Bay (HMCS GOOSE BAY) (MM-707)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Newfoundland and Labrador
Ship's Home Port (Summer) - HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Newfoundland and Labrador
Ship's Home Port (Winter) - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Avalon (HMCS AVALON) (MCMV-725)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - SAINT JOHN'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
Ship's Home Port - ARGENTIA, Newfoundland and Labrador
The youngest of the pre-Shift Naval Reserve divisions, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Cabot would have one of the larger areas to effectively expand into once the Shift occurs and mobilization is ordered from Ville de Quénec. Once its new sister units were organizing themselves, Cabot would concentrate her own recruiting efforts in the Avalon Peninsula, the Burin Peninsula and the Bonavista region of southeast Newfonudland. Atop sending personnel to help organize the expansion of CFS Saint John's into CFB Saint John's, staff from Cabot would help in the reclaiming of the old American naval station at Argentia near Placentia on the southwest coast of the Avalon Peninsula; there, Fleet Maintenance Facility Avalon would be stood up and allowed to become the second main naval base for the Rock. With detachments at Goose Bay in Labrador and Corner Brook on the western coast of the Island of Newfoundland, FMF Argentia would serve as one of the front-line naval engineering repair facilities for Canadian and Allied ships in the war against the Nazis; sadly, since there is no land connection from the Rock to the rest of Canada, detailed or extreme repairs of damaged ships would have to be deferred to places such as Halifax, Saint John in New Brunswick and Lévis in Québec. Naturally, the King's Harbour Master Argentia would be responsible for monitoring all naval traffic and helping in the chartering of tugboats for the Navy's use in Placentia Bay as well as Corner Brook Harbour and Hamilton Inlet.
Reformed at Corner Brook after the Shift would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Caribou. Effectively the second of name, she is named in honour of an armed yacht which was employed by the Royal Canadian Navy during World War Two IOTL. The stone frigate incarnation of Caribou was commissioned in 1953 to serve as western Newfoundland's naval reserve unit; sadly, low recruiting numbers would see her paid off just five years later. Recommissioned after the Shift, Caribou would set up detachments at Stephenville and Channel Port-aux-Basques, recruiting from the Humber Valley, Saint George's and Southern Coast regions of the island. Atop helping raise the local detachments of FMF Avalon and KHM Argentia, Caribou would be given the unique responsibility of organizing Submarine Airmobile Assistance Team Corner Brook. This would be one of four rescue specialist teams patterned after the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group, which would be ready to deploy in an instant in case there is a major issue with any of Canada's submarines or any Allied submarine. Manned with a mixture of RCAF search-and-rescue technicians and RCN submarine specialists, they can be deployed worldwide at short notice (with the help of 103 Squadron at Gander) to render aide to a stricken submarine.
Recruiting from the northern peninsula, the Notre Dame Region and the centre of the Island of Newfoundland is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Excalibur, the first of name. Named in honour of a lost flying boat of the same name that crashed into the Bay of Exploits in 1942, Excalibur would be responsible for helping secure the northern reaches of the Rock as well as providing some support to 9 Wing Gander as well as other elements of the Forces based there.
Finally recruiting from Labrador would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Aivitok, based at 5 Wing Goose Bay on the shores of Lake Melville. The unit would have been named HMCS Hamilton in honour of Hamilton Inlet (through which the waters of Lake Melville empty into the Labrador Sea), but when it was decided to use the name for a Halifax-class frigate, the name was switched to the Inuttitut reading. Aivitok would have detachments at Labrador City close to the border of Québec and at Nain in the Nunatsiavut region of the province claimed by the local Inuit peoples. Atop organizing a port for the detachments of FMF Avalon and KHM Argentia to make use of whenever necessary (and to serve as the summer home port of HMCS Goose Bay in peacetime), Aivitok would also be responsible for providing support to 5 Wing.
Providing communications support to the flotilla as well as communications research support to HMCS Trinity in Halifax and CFS Leitrim outside Ottawa would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Conception Bay, which revives the World War Two IOTL naval radio section that had been based at Harbour Grace. Said unit would maintain backup communication links between all parts of the province to ensure the Forces based in Newfoundland would have always active communications links.
Five underwater port security divisions would be organized at Saint John's and Argentia (tenders to Cabot), Channel Port-aux-Basques and Stephenville (tenders to Caribou) and Twillingate (tender to Excalibur). Of course, any of these teams could be deployed north to Goose Bay to assist in patrolling that harbour.
The final unit of the flotilla would be the Newfoundland and Labrador Flotilla Band, the group's musical ambassadors.
To be assigned as the flotilla's seagoing warships would be the Saguenay-class helicopter frigate HMCS Terra Nova, the Kingston-class coastal defence ship HMCS Goose Bay and the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessel HMCS Avalon.
Next: Whoops! Did we forget something about the Gulf of Saint Lawrence?!
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Post by pyeknu on May 23, 2019 11:00:42 GMT
And now looking at the last of the Atlantic provinces and the parts of Québec that border the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
FLOTTILLE DU GOLFE DU SAINT-LAURENT/GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE FLOTILLA
Capitaine de Vaisseau, Flottille du Golfe du Saint-Laurent/Captain (Navy), Gulf of Saint Lawrence Flotilla (CAPV FLOT GSL/CAPT[N] GSL FLOT)
Quartier-Général de la Septième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes/Headquarters Seventh Maritime Operations Group (QG 7e GOM/HQ MOG SEVEN)
Quartier-Général/Headquarters - SEPT-ÎLES, Québec
His Majesty's Canadian Ship D'Anville/Navire Canadian de Sa Majesté D'Anville (HMCS D'ANVILLE/NCSM D'ANVILLE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - MONTAGUE, Prince Edward Island
Naval Radio Section Montague/Section de Radio Navale Montague
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Cap-aux-Meules - CAP-AUX-MEULES, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Kamouraska - LA POCATIÈRE, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Caniapiscau - FERMONT, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Jolliet (NCSM JOLLIET)
Division de Quartier-Général - SEPT-ÎLES, Québec
Division de Sept-Rivières
Division de Manicouagan - BAIE-COMEAU, Québec
Division de Caniapiscau - FERMONT, Québec
Division d'Haute-Côte-Nord - LES ESCOUMINS, Québec
Division de Minganie - HAVRE-SAINT-PIERRE, Québec
Division de Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent - BLANC-SABON, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Cap d'Espoir (NCSM CAP D'ESPOIR)
Division de Quartier-Général - GASPÉ, Québec
Division de la Côte-de-Gaspé
Division des Îles de la Madeleine - CAP-AUX-MEULES, Québec
Division de la Haute-Gaspésie - SAINTE-ANNE-DES-MONTS, Québec
Division du Rocher-Percé - CHANDLER, Québec
Division de Bonaventure - NEW RICHMOND, Québec
Division d'Avignon - CARLETON-SUR-MER, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté D'Iberville (NCSM D'IBERVILLE)
Division de Quartier-Général - RIMOUSKI, Québec
Division de Rimouski-Neigette
Division de Témiscouata - TÉMISCOUATA-SUR-LA-LAC, Québec
Division de Rivière-du-Loup - RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, Québec
Division des Basques - TROIS-PISTOLES, Québec
Division de la Mitis - MONT-JOLI, Québec
Division de la Mataine - MATANE, Québec
Division de la Matapédia - AMQUI, Québec
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Queen Charlotte (HMCS QUEEN CHARLOTTE)
Headquarters Division - CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island
Queens Division
Kings Division - MONTAGUE, Prince Edward Island
Prince Division - SUMMERSIDE, Prince Edward Island
Fleet Maintenance Facility Port-la-Joye/Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Port-la-Joye (FMF PORT-LA-JOYE/IMF PORT-LA-JOYE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island
Fleet Maintenance Division Charlottetown
Fleet Maintenance Division Summerside - SUMMERSIDE, Prince Edward Island
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Bas-Saint-Laurent - RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Gaspésie - CHANDLER, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Côte-Nord - BAIE-COMEAU, Québec
King's Harbour Master Abegweit (KHM ABEGWEIT)
Headquarters Division - CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island
Harbour Support Division Charlottetown
Harbour Support Division Summerside - SUMMERSIDE, Prince Edward Island
Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Gaspésie (CPSM GASPÉSIE)
Division de Quartier-Général - NEW RICHMOND, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Bonaventure
Division d'Appui de Port Percé - CHANDLER, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Cap-aux-Meules - CAP-AUX-MEULES, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Rivière-du-Loup - RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Baie-Comeau - BAIE-COMEAU, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Baie-Comeau (DSPSM BAIE-COMEAU)
Quartier-Général - BAIE-COMEAU, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Kamouraska (DSPSM KAMOURASKA)
Quartier-Général - LA POCATIÈRE, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Matapédia (DSPSM MATAPÉDIA)
Quartier-Général - AMQUI, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Rimouski (DSPSM RIMOUSKI)
Quartier-Général - RIMOUSKI, Québec
Musique de la Flottille du Golfe du Saint-Laurent/Gulf of Saint Lawrence Flotilla Band (MUS FGSL/GSL BAND)
Quartier-Général/Headquarters - SEPT-ÎLES, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Saint-Laurent (NCSM ST-LAURENT) (PCH-406)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - SEPT-ÎLES, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - BAIE-COMEAU, Québec
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Summerside (HMCS SUMMERSIDE) (MM-711)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - SUMMERSIDE, Prince Edward Island
Ship's Home Port - CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Anticosti (NCSM ANTICOSTI) (MCMV-712)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - HAVRE-SAINT-PIERRE, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - BAIE-COMEAU, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Îles de la Madeleine (NCSM ÎLES DE LA MADELEINE) (MCMV-722)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - CAP-AUX-MEULES, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - CAP-AUX-MEULES, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Bylot (NCSM BYLOT) (MCMV-723)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division/Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island
Ship's Home Port/Quartier Maritime de Navire - CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island
Protecting the Gulf of Saint Lawrence from outside incursion is a no-brainer to the Royal Canadian Navy. In World War Two IOTL, the Battle of the Saint Lawrence caught the wartime Navy flatfooted as German U-boats deploying from France were able to penetrate through the Cabot Strait and the Strait of Belle Isle to attack shipping within what was then seen as a very protected large harbour; among the losses incurred between May of 1942 and November of 1944 were HMC Ships Charlottetown (the first of name), Shawinigan, Chedabucto and Raccoon. This time around, the Navy wasn't taking chances.
Fortunately, la Flottille du Golfe du Saint-Laurent/the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Flotilla turned out lucky as three of the original twenty-four Naval Reserve units were in its administrative catchment, which included Prince Edward Island and the Québec regions of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Côte-Nord and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine. With a virtual hornet's nest of acoustic data analysis centres watching over the gulf and considerable Navy and Air Force assets available to keep the enemy out of the region - never mind the fact that the active Navy was pursuing the Kriegsmarine right in their home waters, making almost all attempts by U-boats to get into the open Atlantic one-way suicide runs - a repeat of the IOTL battle would definitely not happen.
The flagship of the flotilla would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Jolliet in Sept-îles in Québec's Côte-Nord region. One of the younger Naval Reserve units, stood up near the end of the Cold War to expand the reserves' catchment area in Québec, Jolliet would be tasked to set up divisions in all the areas of Côte-Nord. Beyond the headquarters division and the Sept-Rivières Division at Sept-Îles, divisions would be based out of Baie-Comeau (for the regional county municipality of Manicouagan), Fermont (for the Caniapiscau RCM), les Escoumins (for the Haute-Côte-Nord RCM), Harve-Saint-Pierre near the border with Labrador (for the Miniganie RCM) and Blanc-Sabon (for the Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent RCM). Jolliet would be responsible for supporting/recruiting for all naval reserve units on the north shore of the Gulf.
Across and up the river from Sept-Îles would be another of the younger Naval Reserve units, Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté D'Iberville in Rimouski at the centre of the Lower Saint Lawrence region. With her headquarters and the Rimouski-Neigette Division located there, D'Iberville would have divisions based out of Témiscouata-sur-la-Lac (for the Témiscouata RCM), Rivière-du-Loup (for the like-named RCM), Trois-Pistoles (for Les Basques RCM), Mont-Joli (for La Mitis RCM), Matane (for La Mataine RCM) and Amqui (for the Matapédia RCM). D'Iberville would support and recruit for all naval reserve units in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, covering at least a couple hundred kilometres of the Saint Lawrence's shoreline heading up towards Ville de Québec.
On Prince Edward Island, there would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Queen Charlotte. One of the original named Naval Reserve units when she was commissioned in 1942 during World War Two IOTL, she would be decommissioned in 1964 thanks to the deep cuts in the Forces leading up to Unification, but would be recommissioned in 1994; this is surprising since the military budges of the 1990s were even more thin on dollars doled out to the military than the 1970s! Atop the headquarters and the Queens Division in Charlottetown, Queen Charlotte would have divisions in Summerside (for Prince County) and Montague (for Kings County). Atop supporting and recruiting for all naval reserve units on the island, Queen Charlotte would also support the Royal Canadian Air Force at their reactivated base at Summerside.
The only new unit to be commissioned would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Cap d'Espoir out of Gaspé; this would be the Naval Reserve unit for the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Region of Québec. Atop being responsible for supporting and recruiting for naval reserve units in the region, Cap d'Espoir would primarily focus on maintaining a strong presences on the Magdalen Islands located right in the very centre of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Named after the easternmost point of the Gaspé Peninsula in Percé (where there had been a Royal Canadian Navy HFDF station active at that location during World War Two IOTL), Cap d'Espoir would have (atop the headquarters and the La Côte-de-Gaspé Division in Gaspé) divisions located at Cap-aux-Meules on the Magdalen Islands (for the urban agglomeration of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine), Sainte-Anne-des-Monts (for la Haute-Gaspésie RCM), Chandler (for Rocher-Percé RCM), New Richmond (for Bonaventure RCM) and Carleton-sur-Mer (for Avignon RCM).
The other new unit to be commissioned would be the flotilla's in-house communications element, His Majesty's Canadian Ship D'Anville, headquartered at Montague on the eastern side of Prince Edward Island. The unit is named after Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, the Duke of D'Anville, who led a failed relief expedition to the Fortress of Louisbourg during the War of the Austrian Succession/King George's War (1744-48). With her main naval radio security at Montague, D'Anville would also have supplementary radio sections at Cap-aux-Meules, La Pocatière (in the Kamouraska RCM about forty kilometres upriver from Rivière-de-Loup) and Fermont.
All the main units of the flotilla would recruit for the Fleet Maintenance Facility Port-la-Joye, with headquarters in Charlottetown and main dockyard detachments at Cap-aux-Meules on the Magdalen Islands (an element of the fleet maintenance division based at Chandler on the Gaspé Peninsula) and Baie-Comeau on the northern coast of the gulf. The facility is named in honour of the battle at Port-la-Joye (known to the Mi'kmaq as Skmaqn and the British as Fort Amherst) near Charlottetown in 1735.
Controlling ship movements out of various harbours and dealing with tugboat charters in the region would be the King's Harbour Master Abegweit out of Charlottetown (who would cover the Northumberland Strait) and the Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Gaspésie (who would cover the vast majority of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence save for those areas close to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland). KHM Abegweit is named after the Mi'kmaq term for Prince Edward Island, meaning "cradled by the waves". CPSM Gaspésie takes her name from the Gaspé Peninsula, of course.
A total of four underwater port security divisions would be assigned to the flotilla, located at various points in the flotilla's catchment area in Québec; as always, they can be deployed elsewhere if required. Atop that, the flotilla has an in-house band, la Musique de la Flottille du Golfe du Saint-Laurent, based out of Sept-Îles.
Warships directly assigned to the flotilla to help reinforce the Atlantic Fleet would be the Saguenay-class helicopter frigate NCSM Saint-Laurent, the Kingston-class coastal defence ship HMCS Summerside, and the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessels Navires CSM Anticosti, Îles de la Madeleine and Bylot.
Next: The Naval Reserves around Ville de Québec!
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Post by pyeknu on May 23, 2019 14:49:42 GMT
Now let's proceed up the river and visit Canada's oldest city...
FLOTTILLE DU STADACONA
Capitaine de Vaisseau, Flottille du Stadacona/Quartier-Général de la Deuxième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (CAPV FLOT STAD/QG 2e GOM)
Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de l'Anse-des-Mères, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Don-de-Dieu (NCSM DON-DE-DIEU)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de Beauport, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Section de Radio Navale d'Habitation
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Roberval - ROBERVAL, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Sartigan - Arsenal Naval et Manège Militaire du Haut-Chaudière, SAINT-GEORGES, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire l'Islet - SAINT-JEAN-PORT-JOLI, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Montcalm (NCSM MONTCALM)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de l'Anse-des-Mères, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Division de Québec
Division de la Jacques-Cartier - SHANNON, Québec
Division de Portneuf - CAP-SANTÉ, Québec
Division de la Côte-de-Beaupré et de l'Île-d'Orléans - CHÂTEAU-RICHER, Québec
Division de Charlevoix - BAIE-SAINT-PAUL, Québec
Division de Charlevoix-Est - CLERMONT, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Champlain (NCSM CHAMPLAIN)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de Chicoutimi, SAGUENAY, Québec
Division de Saguenay
Détachement du Division de Saguenay - Arsenal Navale de La Baie, SAGUENAY, Québec
Division du Fjord-du-Saguenay - SAINT-HONORÉ, Québec
Division de Lac-Saint-Jean-Est - ALMA, Québec
Division du Domaine-du-Roy - ROBERVAL, Québec
Division de Maria-Chapdelaine - DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Pointe-Lévy (NCSM POINTE-LÉVY)
Division de Quartier-Général - Complexe Naval de Lauzon, LÉVIS, Québec
Division de Lévis
Division de l'Islet - SAINT-JEAN-PORT-JOLI, Québec
Division de Montmagny - MONTMAGNY, Québec
Division de Bellechasse - SAINT-LAZARE-DE-BELLECHASSE, Québec
Division des Etchemins - LAC-ETCHEMIN, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Sartigan (NCSM SARTIGAN)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Naval et Manège Militaire du Haut-Chaudière, SAINT-GEORGES, Québec
Division de Beauce-Sartigan
Division de Robert-Cliche - BEAUCEVILLE, Québec
Division des Appalaches - THETFORD-MINES, Québec
Division de Lotbinière - SAINTE-CROIX, Québec
Division de la Nouvelle-Beauce - SAINTE-MARIE, Québec
Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Lauzon (IMF LAUZON)
Division de Quartier-Général - Complexe Naval de Lauzon, LÉVIS, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Lauzon
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Bellechasse - SAINT-LAZARE-DE-BELLECHASSE, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Beauce-Sartigan - Arsenal Naval et Manège Militaire du Haut-Chaudière, SAINT-GEORGES, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Appalaches - THETFORD-MINES, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Lotbinière - SAINTE-CROIX, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Nouvelle-Beauce - SAINTE-MARIE, Québec
Détachement de l'Installation à La Baie - SAGUENAY, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Saguenay
Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Stadacona (CPSM STADACONA)
Division de Quartier-Général - Complexe Naval de Pointe-à-Carcy, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Ville de Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Lévis - Complexe Naval de Lauzon, LÉVIS, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Lotbinière - SAINTE-CROIX, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Montmagny - MONTMAGNY, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Charlevoix - BAIE-SAINT-PAUL, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port La Baie - Arsenal Navale de La Baie, SAGUENAY, Québec
Équipe d'Assistance Aéromobile Sous-Marins Chicoutimi (ÉAASM CHICOUTIMI)
Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de La Baie, SAGUENAY, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Lévis (DSPSM LÉVIS)
Quartier-Général - Complexe Naval de Lauzon, LÉVIS, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Montmagny (DSPSM MONTMAGNY)
Quartier-Général - MONTMAGNY, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Québec (DSPSM QUÉBEC)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de l'Anse-des-Mères, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Saguenay (DSPSM SAGUENAY)
Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de La Baie, SAGUENAY, Québec
Musique de la Flottille du Stadacona (MUS FLOTSTAD)
Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de l'Anse-des-Mères, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Saguenay (NCSM SAGUENAY) (PCH-401)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - Arsenal Navale de La Baie, SAGUENAY, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - SAGUENAY, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Chaudière (NCSM CHAUDIÈRE) (PCH-411)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - Arsenal Navale de l'Anse-des-Mères, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - LÉVIS, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Resolve (NCSM RESOLVE) (AOR-515)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - Arsenal Navale de l'Anse-des-Mères, VILLE DE QUÉBEC, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - LÉVIS, Québec
La Flottille du Stadacona would be the main Naval Reserve formation for the Québec regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Capitale-Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches, covering the lower middle part of the Saint Lawrence River and the Saguenay River as well, the latter of which is navigable up to the city of the same name (which was united from the cities of Chicoutimi and Jonquière and the town of La Baie in 2002). Blessed with two pre-Shift units when it is formed, the flotilla would double in size and be tasked to provide one of the main construction and repair facilities for the Navy as a whole; Chantier Davie Canada Inc, the birthplace of many Canadian warships since the Second World War IOTL and one of Canada's modern shipbuilding/repair/modification facilities is located in Lévis across the river from Ville de Québec.
The flagship of the flotilla and the oldest naval reserve unit in the area is Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Montcalm. Tracing her ancestry back to the days of the formation of the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1923, Montcalm would be the host unit of the Naval Reserve headquarters staff until the formation of NCSM Frontenac after the Shift. Because of the massive increase of personnel being posted at the Pointe-à-Carcy Naval Complex at the very foot of Ville de Québec's lower town close to the estuary of the Saint Charles River, it would be decided that Montcalm would relocate to new quarters. Such would be constructed by the 242e Régiment du Génie de Construction (Forestiers) at Warf 101 upriver from the old home, which would be christened the l'Anse-des-Mères Naval Complex. This would allow Montcalm to serve as the host unit for a white plethora of other units, including the Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Stadacona which would control maritime traffic and handle tugboat charters in this part of the Saint Lawrence and the navigable parts of the Saguenay from the La Baie Naval Arsenal downstream to Tadoussac. Montcalm herself would have divisions raised in all the regional county municipalities of the Capitale-Nationale Region, with them based at Shannon near CFB Valcartier (the Jacques-Cartier Division), Cap-Santé (the Portneuf Division), Château-Richer (the Côte-de-Beaupré & l'Île-d'Orléans Division), Baie-Saint-Paul (the Charlevoix Division) and Clermont (the East Charlevoix Division).
The other pre-Shift unit that would join the flotilla is Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Champlain, one of the new Québec-based units commissioned near the end of the Cold War in 1986. The second Naval unit named after the founder of New France, Champlain inherited the name of the former HMS Torbay, a former Great War S-class destroyer that served in the RCN from 1928-36, missing out World War Two IOTL by three years. While the current Champlain would maintain its headquarters and training section at the naval arsenal built for it in old downtown Chicoutimi, it would deploy the majority of the Saguenay Division of the unit to a new naval arsenal built at the Bagotville Marine Terminal for cruise ships in the La Baie section of the city; it is here that the detachments of both CPSM Stadacona as well as l'Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Lauzon responsible for ship repairs and general maintenance would be located. Other divisions of Champlain would be located in all the other regional county municipalities of the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Region, located at Saint-Honoré (the Saguenay Fjord Division), Alma (the East Lac-Saint-Jean Division), Robertval (the King's Domain Division) and Dolbeau-Mistassini (the Maria-Chapdelaine Division). Given that there is a submarine named after the old city of Chicoutimi, the Équipe d'Assistance Aéromobile Sous-Marins Chicoutimi would be based at the La Baie Naval Arsenal, working with elements of the RCAF based with 3e Escadre Bagotville to deal with potential submarine sinkings.
The host unit for IMF Lauzon would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Pointe-Lévy in Lévis, located in a new facility built by the 242e Régiment jutting into the Saint Lawrence in a wooded area to the immediate east of the Davie Shipyard in the old city of Lauzon. Pointe-Lévy, named in honour of the headland on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence just across from Ville de Québec near the estuary of the Chaudière River, would be one of the two new naval reserve units erected to recruit from the Chaudière-Appalaches Region. Outside the Lévis Division at the Lauzon Naval Arsenal, divisions of Pointe-Lévy would be located at Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (the Islet Division), Montmagny (the division of the same name), Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse (the Bellechasse Division) and Lac-Etchemin (the Etchemins Division).
Handling recruiting and training for new naval personnel in the inland part of the Chaudière-Appalaches Region would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Sartigan, with her headquarters and Beauce-Sartigan Division based out of Saint-Georges on Québec Route 173 (la Route-du-Président-Kennedy) which connects Lévis to the border with Maine not thirty kilometres to the south-southeast. Given her close proximity to the American border, Sartigan would house a language teaching unit for migrants from the States wanting to volunteer to serve in the Royal Canadian Navy; she would be the primary training unit for down-time Americans before they moved on to trades training before deployment. Sartigan would have divisions based at Beauceville (the Robert-Cliche Division), Thetford-Mines (the Appalachian Division), Sainte-Croix (the Lotbinière Division) and Sainte-Marie (the New Beauce Division).
Providing communications support would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Don-de-Dieu, located at the Beauport Naval Arsenal in the eastern part of Ville de Québec which also houses the headquarters staff of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command's Fleet Intelligence Squadron at NCSM Onimikì. Don-de-Dieu (literally "Gift of God") is named in honour of Samuel de Champlain's flagship when he first came to settle Ville de Québec in 1608. She would possess supplementary radio sections at Robertval, Saint-Georges and Saint-Jean-Port-Joli.
Helping with port security would be four underwater port security divisions, located at Ville de Québec (a tender to Montcalm), Lévis and Montmagny (both tenders to Pointe-Lévy) and Saguenay (a tender to Champlain). Also, Montcalm's integral band would be made its own unit and become la Musique de la Flottille du Stadacona, the musical ambassadors to the flotilla.
Finally, the warships to be permanently assigned to the flotilla would be the Saguenay-class helicopter corvettes Navires CSM Saguenay and Chaudière, as well as the Asterix-class replenishment vessel NCSM Resolve.
Next: The Navy in the centre of Québec!
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Post by lordroel on May 23, 2019 17:38:45 GMT
pyeknu, nice Orbats, keep it up.
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Post by pyeknu on May 23, 2019 21:06:44 GMT
Moving further up the Saint Lawrence into the centre of Québec...
FLOTTILLE DU CENTRE DU QUÉBEC
Capitaine de Vaisseau, Flottille du Centre du Québec/Quartier-Général de la Neuvième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (CAPV FLOT CQ/QG 9e GOM)
Quartier-Général - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté D'Autray (NCSM D'AUTRAY)
Division de Quartier-Général - BERTHIERVILLE, Québec
Section de Radio Navale Lanaudière
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Matawinie - RAWDON, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire La Tuque - LA TUQUE, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Notre Dame-du-Cap - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire des Sources - ASBESTOS, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Radisson (NCSM RADISSON)
Division de Quartier-Général - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
Division de Trois-Rivières
Division des Chenaux - NOTRE-DAME-DU-MONT-CARMEL, Québec
Division de Maskinongé - LOUISEVILLE, Québec
Division de Shawinigan - SHAWINIGAN, Québec
Division de la Tuque - LA TUQUE, Québec
Division de Mékinac - SAINT-TITE, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Estrie (NCSM ESTRIE)
Division de Quartier-Général - SHERBROOKE, Québec
Division de Sherbrooke
Division du Granit - LAC-MEGANTIC, Québec
Division du Haut-Saint-François - COOKSHIRE-EATON, Québec
Division du Val-Saint-François - RICHMOND, Québec
Division des Sources - ASBESTOS, Québec
Division de Memphrémagog - MAGOG, Québec
Division de Coaticook - COATICOOK, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Lanaudière (NCSM LANAUDIÈRE)
Division de Quartier-Général - TERREBONNE, Québec
Division de Moulins
Division de Joliette - JOLIETTE, Québec
Division de Matawinie - RAWDON, Québec
Division d'Autray - BERTHIERVILLE, Québec
Division d'Assomption - REPENTIGNY, Québec
Division de Montcalm - SAINT-JULIEN, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Yamaska (NCSM YAMASKA)
Division de Quartier-Général - DRUMMONDVILLE, Québec
Division de Drummond
Division de Nicolet-Yamaska - SAINT-FRANÇOIS-DU-LAC, Québec
Division d'Arthabaska - VICTORIAVILLE, Québec
Division de Bécancour - BÉCANCOUR, Québec
Division d'Érable - PLESSISVILLE, Québec
Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Saint-Maurice (IMF SAINT-MAURICE)
Division de Quartier-Général - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Trois-Rivières
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Shawinigan - SHAWINIGAN, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Drummond - DRUMMONDVILLE, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Arthabaska - VICTORIAVILLE, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Sherbrooke - SHERBROOKE, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Memphrémagog - MAGOG, Québec
Détachement de l'Installation à Repentigny - REPENTIGNY, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte d'Assomption
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte des Moulins - TERREBONNE, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Joliette - JOLIETTE, Québec
Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Lac Saint-Pierre (CPSA LAC SAINT-PIERRE)
Division de Quartier-Général - BÉCANCOUR, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Arthabaska - VICTORIAVILLE, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Cap-de-la-Madelaine - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Drummond - DRUMMONDVILLE, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port d'Autray - BERTHIERVILLE, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port d'Assomption - REPENTIGNY, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port des Moulins - TERREBONNE, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Memphrémagog - MAGOG, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins d'Arthabaska (DSPSM ARTHABASKA)
Quartier-Général - VICTORIAVILLE, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins d'Assomption (DSPSM ASSOMPTION)
Quartier-Général - REPENTIGNY, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Drummond (DSPSM DRUMMOND)
Quartier-Général - DRUMMONDVILLE, Québec
Division d'Entraînement de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Sherbrooke (DESPSM SHERBROOKE)
Quartier-Général - SHERBROOKE, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Trois-Rivières (DSPSM TROIS-RIVIÈRES)
Quartier-Général - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
Musique de la Flottille du Centre du Québec (MUS FCQ)
Quartier-Général - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Shawinigan (NCSM SHAWINIGAN) (MM-704)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - SHAWINIGAN, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Québec
For the longest of time, Québec as a province only had two places where naval reservists would be able to gather, either at NCSM Montcalm in Ville de Québec or NCSM Donnacona in Montréal. That changed in the 1980s when the new Progressive Conservative government under Brian Mulroney moved to expand the Armed Forces' capabilities and bring the military back to the days before Unification and Pierre Trudeau's moves to disentangle Canada from NATO and concentrate on making the nation more friendly to all other countries regardless of political system. Part of that expansion saw four new Naval Reserve units established in la Belle Province and the headquarters of the whole Naval Reserves relocated to Ville de Québec; normally, the senior officer of the Naval Reserves would be based out of HMCS Scotian in Halifax. One of those new units would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Radisson based out of Trois-Rivières, which would allow la Flottille du Centre du Québec to rise up after the Shift.
With a catchment area that covers the Québec regions of Mauricie, Estrie, Lanaudière and Centre-du-Québec, the flotilla would cover parts of the province that had never seen a presence from the Royal Canadian Navy since its initial inception in 1910. As was done with other flotillas in la Belle Province, la Flottille du Centre-du-Québec would divide its four primary units per region, with Radisson becoming the naval reserve unit for Mauricie. Atop serving as host unit for both l'Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Saint-Maurice and Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté Lac Saint-Pierre, Radisson would have (atop the headquarters division and Trois-Rivières Division in Trois-Rivières itself) divisions located at Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel (the Chenaux Division), Louiseville (the Maskinongé Division), Shawinigan (for the division of the same name), La Tuque (for the division of the same name) and Saint-Tite (the Mékinac Division).
The reason both IMF Saint-Maurice and CPSM Lac Saint-Pierre would be such large units was a deliberate choice by the planners at Naval Reserve headquarters in Ville de Québec. Given that Canada was shifted back in time to a period where the Saint Lawrence Seaway had NOT existed, the amount of traffic that would soon flow up and down the waterway would be immediately taken advantage of both by American and European merchants to see goods moved more efficiently by water to/from the large heartland cities of Chicago and Detroit. This could prompt a potential rebuilding of the Seaway itself to accommodate ships of the up-time post-Panamax size, fitting vessels over 120,000 deadweight tonnes in mass with dimensions of 366 metres (1,201 feet) length by 49 metres (161 feet) beam and drawing 15.2 metres (50 feet) of water with a height above waterline of 57.91 metres (190 feet). And while there are preliminary discussions ongoing between the Saint Lawrence Seaway Authority and the United States Army Corps of Engineers concerning such an expansion, it may not come for some time yet. None the less, given the need for Canada to develop its own indigenous shipbuilding industry again because of the loss of the worldwide parts market thanks to the Shift, Chantier Davie Canada persuaded the Navy to allow a second dry dock and construction yard to be erected in Trois-Rivières, with an annex repair dock located upriver at Repentigny; this would allow Canada to profit from worldwide orders of things like container ships to allow better movement of goods via sea. Naturally, the need to manage Seaway traffic is paramount, hence CPSM Lac Saint-Pierre would have many personnel available to guide ship movements between Montréal and Ville de Québec.
Acting as IMF Saint-Maurice Detachment Repentigny's host unit would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Lanaudière, with her main headquarters located at nearby Terrebonne. Taking the chance to draw in interested personnel from one of the suburb areas of greater Montréal, Lanaudière would have divisions located at Joliette (for the like-named division), Rawdon (for the Matawinie Division), Berthierville (for the Autray Division), Repentigny (for the Assomption Division) and Saint-Julien (for the Montcalm Division) atop the headquarters and the Moulins Division in Terrebonne.
On the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River would be established Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Yamaska, covering the Centre-du-Québec Region itself, with headquarters and the Drummond Division in Drummondville. Named after the river of the same name that flows through the territory, Yamaska would have divisions located at Saint-François-du-Lac (the Nicolet-Yamaska Division), Victoriaville (the Arthabaska Division), Bécancour (for the division of the same name) and Plessisville (for the Érable Division).
Finally, covering the area of the old Eastern Townships along the border with Vermont and New Hampshire would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Estrie, taking her name for the Québécois French neologism for "east". With headquarters and the Sherbrooke Division in the Estrie Region's largest city, Estrie would have divisions located at Lac-Megantic (the Granit Division), Cookshire-Eaton (the Upper Saint-François Division), Richmond (the Saint-François Valley Division), Asbestos (the Sources Division), Magog (the Memphrémagog Division) and Coaticook (for the division of the same name). Along with other naval reserve units close to the American border, Estrie would be tasked to help secure said border in support of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency; while earnest migrants who are willing to work and help the Dominion build up to a better tomorrow being so isolated as it is were more than welcome, potential enemy agents and social agitators worried about things like "miscegenation" and other "sinful" practices who might want to cause trouble in Canada are NOT welcome.
Linking all parts of the flotilla with communications would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté D'Autray, based out of Berthierville near the border between Lanaudière and Mauricie Regions on the Saint Lawrence River. With the primary naval radio section there to assist CPSM Lac-Saint-Pierre, D'Autray would have supplementary stations at Rawdon, La Tuque, Trois-Rivières and Asbestos. She is named after the regional county municipality in which the unit is based.
Assigned to the flotilla would be four underwater port security divisions at Victoriaville, Repentigny, Drummondville and Trois-Rivières. The flotilla would be assigned an additional training unit, Division d'Entraînement de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Sherbrooke, which is the French-language training facility for port inspection divers in Naval Reserve Forces East. Finally, there is la Musique de la Flottille du Centre du Québec as the flotilla's musical ambassadors.
There is only one seagoing vessel assigned to the flotilla at this time, the Kingston-class coastal patrol ship NCSM Shawinigan.
Next: The Naval Reserve in southwest Québec...but not Montréal!
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Post by pyeknu on May 24, 2019 13:43:05 GMT
Now, the Naval Reserves in the areas south, east and west of Montréal...
FLOTTILLE DE LA MONTÉRÉGIE
Capitaine de Vaisseau, Flottille de la Montérégie/Quartier-Général de la Dixième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (CAPV FLOT MONT/QG 10e GOM)
Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de la Pointe-du-Marigot, LONGUEUIL, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Saint-Hyacinthe (NCSM SAINT-HYACINTHE)
Division de Quartier-Général - SAINT-HYACINTHE, Québec
Section de Radio Navale Saint-Hyacinthe
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Longueuil - Arsenal Navale de la Garnison Saint-Hubert, LONGUEUIL, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Brome-Missisquoi - COWANSVILLE, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Richelieu - Arsenal Navale de la Garnison Saint-Jean, SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Pointe-de-Cascades - VAUDREUIL-DORION, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Courcelle (NCSM COURCELLE)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de la Pointe-du-Marigot, LONGUEUIL, Québec
Division de Vieux-Longueuil
Division de Boucherville
Division de Brossard - BROSSARD, Québec
Division de Saint-Lambert
Division de Saint-Hubert - Arsenal Navale de la Garnison Saint-Hubert, LONGUEUIL, Québec
Division de Greenfield Park
Division de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
Division de Lajemmerais - SAINTE-JULIE, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Saint-Pierre (NCSM SAINT-PIERRE)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de la Garnison Saint-Jean, SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Québec
Division du Haut-Richelieu
Division de Brome-Missisquoi - COWANSVILLE, Québec
Division de la Haute-Yamaska - GRANBY, Québec
Division de Rouville - MARIAVILLE, Québec
Division d'Acton - ACTON-VALE, Québec
Division de Vallée-du-Richelieu - CHAMBLY, Québec
Division des Maskoutains - SAINT-HYACINTHE, Québec
Division de Pierre-De Saurel - SOREL-TRACY, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Châteauguay (NCSM CHÂTEAUGUAY)
Division de Quartier-Général - CHÂTEAUGUAY, Québec
Division de Roussillon
Division des Jardins-de-Napierville - NAPIERVILLE, Québec
Division de Beauharnois-Salaberry - SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Québec
Division du Haut-Saint-Laurent - HUNTINGDON, Québec
Division de Vaudreuil-Soulanges - VAUDREUIL-DORION, Québec
Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte de l'Île-Saint-Bernard (IMF ÎLE-SAINT-BERNARD)
Division de Quartier-Général - CHÂTEAUGUAY, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Roussillon
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Beauharnois - SALLABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Vaudreuil - VAUDREUIL-DORION, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Longueuil - Arsenal Navale de la Pointe-du-Marigot, LONGUEUIL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte du Haut-Richelieu - Arsenal Navale de la Garnison Saint-Jean, SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Vallée-du-Richelieu - CHAMBLY, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Pierre-De Saurel - SOREL-TRACY, Québec
Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté du Haut-Saint-Laurent (CPSA HSL)
Division de Quartier-Général - VAUDREUIL-DORION, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Lac-Saint-Louis
Division d'Appui de Port de Beauharnois - SALLABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port de Châteauguay - CHÂTEAUGUAY, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port du Saint-Lambert - BROSSARD, Québec
Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté du Richelieu (CPSA RICHELIEU)
Division de Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de la Garnison Saint-Jean, SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port du Haut-Richelieu
Division d'Appui de Port de Vallée-du-Richelieu - CHAMBLY, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port de Sorel-Tracy - SOREL-TRACY, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins de Beauharnois (DSPSM BEAUHARNOIS)
Quartier-Général - SALLABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Haut-Richelieu (DSPSM HAUT-RICHELIEU)
Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de la Garnison Saint-Jean, SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Lac Saint-Louis (DSPSM LAC SAINT-LOUIS)
Quartier-Général - VAUDREUIL-DORION, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Saint-Lambert (DSPSM SAINT-LAMBERT)
Quartier-Général - BROSSARD, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins de Vallée-du-Richelieu (DSPSM VALLÉE-DU-RICHELIEU)
Quartier-Général - CHAMBLY, Québec
Musique de la Flottille de la Montérégie (MUS MONTÉRÉGIE)
Quartier-Général - Arsenal Navale de la Pointe-du-Marigot, LONGUEUIL, Québec
La Flottille de la Montérégie would be responsible for the Naval Reserves in only one region of Québec, the Montérégie Region which covers the southwest corner of la Belle Province, including the diamond-shaped wedge of land bordered by the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers and the Ontario border to the west. Originally meant to be part of a much larger "Western Québec Flotilla", it was decided to chop that in two sections given that the total catchment population would have been 4,844,111 persons, well over HALF of Québec's total population! Thus, it was decided to divide the area into two flotillas, one for Montérégie and one for the combined populations of Montréal, Laval, the Laurentides and Outaouais regions of the province; this would still leave the Hochelaga Flotilla with a catchment population of over three million persons to recruit from, but given how the geography and transportation networks of the area work, it was decided that such would stand for a time.
None the less, such would leave the Montérégie Flotilla with only three brand-new operational Reserve Units, all of whom would be former tenders of NCSM Donnacona in Montréal before the new flotilla was formed and borders of responsibility would be set. The flagship of the formation would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Courcelle, serving as the home naval unit of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil across from Québec's largest city. Named in tribute to Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, a former governor general of New France, she would be responsible for providing manning augmentation to two of the new Chambly-class frigates soon to be commissioned into the Navy, Navires CSM Chambly and Valleyfield (who would be seen as having nearby Châteauguay as their home port) as well as providing manning support to active Naval units in the greater Montréal region. With the headquarters division and both the Old Longueuil and Boucherville Divisions at the new naval arsenal near the Pointe-du-Marigot, Courcelle would have divisions based at Brossard (both the Brossard and Saint-Lambert Divisions), the former grounds of BFC Montréal's Saint-Hubert wing (the Saint-Hubert, Greenfield Park and Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Divisions) and Sainte-Julie (the Lajemmerais Division).
Serving the south-central and eastern areas of Montérégie would be Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Saint-Pierre, headquartered at the Saint-Jean Garrison in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu on the Richelieu River just north of the American border and Lake Champlain dividing New York and Vermont. Named in tribute to Saint Peter, she would be primarily responsible for helping support the Saint-Jean Garrison as well as supporting the RCMP and CBSA in securing the border between Canada and the United States around the area of the Richelieu; given that the area forms navigable marine highway between New York City and Montréal, the need to keep the flow of traffic both ways would be paramount to both Canadian and American authorities. Beyond the headquarters division and the Upper Richelieu Division located at the Saint-Jean Garrison Naval Arsenal, Saint-Pierre would have divisions located at Cowansville (the Brome-Missisquoi Division), Granby (the Upper Yamaska Division), Mariaville (the Rouville Division), Acton-Vale (the Acton Division), Chambly (the Richelieu Valley Division), Saint-Hyacinthe (the Maskoutains Division) and Sorel-Tracy (the Pierre De Saurel Division). Like its sister units in the Centre-du-Québec and Stadacona Flotillas close to the American border, Saint-Pierre would have a language school to teach migrant American workers French before they would join the Forces.
The final main unit of the Montérégie Flotilla is Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Châteauguay based out of her namesake city to the very south of Montréal on the shores of the Saint Lawrence Seaway between the Côte Sainte-Catherine and Beauharnois locks. Taking up the name of the second new replenishment ship (which would soon become the new HMCS Preserver), Châteauguay would recruit from the southwestern and western extremities of Montérégie. Atop her headquarters division and Roussillon Division in Châteauguay itself, she would have divisions at Napierville (the Jardins-de-Napierville Division), Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (the Beauharnois-Salaberry Division), Huntingdon (the Upper Saint Lawrence Division) and Vaudreuil-Dorion (the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Division). Atop also assisting in securing the border with New York leading to the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne at the tri-point between Québec, Ontario and New York, Châteauguay would be the main host unit of l'Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte de l'Île-Saint-Bernard, a combination repair yard and dry dock for new construction that would be limited to Seawaymax sized vessels for the time being; like the new yards at IMF Saint-Maurice, the civilian crews would be hired by Chantier Davie Inc in Lévis.
In many ways, the flotilla's main purpose is to serve as the main training zone for both members of the Health Services Group and the Navy's communications research/signals intelligence forces. The flotilla's catchment area is the home of Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Marguerite d'Youville (in Sainte-Julie), which would have been established as a tender to Courcelle before going independent and becoming flagship of the Naval Health Services Support Flotilla Atlantic; co-located with that unit would be the reserve training unit for all members of the Royal Canadian Medical Service moving to join Forces from Québec and the Atlantic provinces who would be affiliated with the Navy. As for members of the communications research trade, they would re-establish Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Saint-Hyacinthe in her namesake city; this would be a tender of Saint-Pierre before going independent. Atop providing communications services for all elements of the Montérégie Flotilla, Saint-Hyacinthe would serve as the main Naval Reserve training unit for members of the communications research operator trade. Atop the main naval radio unit in Saint-Hyacinthe, she would have supplementary sections at Longueuil, Cowansville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Vaudreuil-Dorion.
Covering all marine traffic movement and handling tugboat charters for the area would be Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté du Haut-Saint-Laurent, which would handle all marine traffic in the Saint Lawrence Seaway from the Saint Lambert Lock at Longueuil west to Cornwall in Ontario. The Montérégie Flotilla would have a second such unit monitoring the Richelieu River and the Chambly Canal from the American border to Sorel-Tracy, Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté du Richelieu; this would be one of the major supporting units to the RCMP and CBSA securing the frontier with New York and Vermont.
The flotilla would be assigned five underwater port security divisions, two covering the Richelieu River (you never know, after all) and three covering the Saint Lawrence Seaway from Longueuil to the Ontario border. Atop that, the flotilla would also have la Musique de la Flottille de la Montérégie as their main band.
With the original plan to build one Saguenay-class helicopter corvette as NCSM Richelieu would have given the flotilla a seagoing presence, the renaming of same to HMCS Yukon would deprive the flotilla of any directly-assigned warship. To compensate, the Chambly-class frigates Navires CSM Chambly and Valleyfield would be built at IMF Île-Saint-Bernard with their commissioning crews training at Saint-Pierre and Châteauguay respectively. As to what the future holds, that is up in the air.
Next: The flotilla for Montréal, Laval and the western part of southern Québec!
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Post by pyeknu on May 24, 2019 14:50:37 GMT
And now the last flotilla based in Québec and Naval Reserve Forces Atlantic!
FLOTTILLE D'HOCHELAGA/HOCHELAGA FLOTILLA
Capitaine de Vaisseau, Flottille d'Hochelaga/Captain (Navy), Hochelaga Flotilla (CAPV FLOT HOCH/CAPT[N] HOCHFLOT)
Quartier-Général de la Onzième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes/Headquarters, Eleventh Maritime Operations Group (QG 11e GOM/HQ MOG ELEVEN)
Quartier-Général/Headquarters - Arsenal Navale de Rue Saint-Jacques, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Hochelaga/His Majesty's Canadian Ship Hochelaga (NCSM HOCHELAGA/HMCS HOCHELAGA)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - Arsenal Navale d'Avenue Dollard, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Section de Radio Navale Hochelaga/Naval Radio Section Hochelaga
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Chelsea - Annexe Militaire et Arsenal Naval du Chemin Old Chelsea/Old Chelsea Road Military Annex and Naval Arsenal, CHELSEA, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire des Laurentides-Nord - MONT-LAURIER, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Laval - LAVAL, Québec
Section de Radio Supplémentaire Mirabel - MIRABEL, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Donnacona/His Majesty's Canadian Ship Donnacona (NCSM DONNACONA/HMCS DONNACONA)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - Arsenal Navale de Rue Saint-Jacques, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division du Sud/South Division
Détachement de Division du Sud/South Division Detachment - Arsenal Navale d'Île-Sainte-Hélène, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division du Centre/Centre Division - Arsenal Navale de Parc Jeanne-Mance, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division du Centre-Ouest/Central West Division - MOUNT ROYAL, Québec
Division de l'Est/East Division - Arsenal Navale de Longue-Pointe, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division du Nord/North Division - Arsenal Navale de Parc Frédéric-Back, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division du Nord-Ouest/Northwest Division - Arsenal Navale de Boulevard Pierrefonds, MONTÉAL, Québec
Division du Sud-Ouest/Southwest Division - Arsenal Navale d'Avenue Dollard, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division d'Ouest/West Division - BEACONSFIELD, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Draveur/His Majesty's Canadian Ship Draveur (NCSM DRAVEUR/HMCS DRAVEUR)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - GATINEAU, Québec
Division de Gatineau/Gatineau Division
Division des Collines-de-l'Outaouais/Outaouais Hills Division - Annexe Militaire et Arsenal Naval du Chemin Old Chelsea/Old Chelsea Road Military Annex and Naval Arsenal, CHELSEA, Québec
Division de Papineau/Papineau Division - Annexe Militaire et Arsenal Naval de la Rue Henri-Bourassa/Henri Bourassa Street Military Annex and Naval Arsenal, PAPINEAUVILLE, Québec
Division de Pontiac/Pontiac Division - CAMPBELL'S BAY, Québec
Division de la Vallée-de-la-Gatineau/Gatineau Valley Division - GRACEFIELD, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Mille Îles (NCSM MILLE ÎLES)
Division de Quartier-Général - LAVAL, Québec
Division de Laval
Division d'Antoine-Labelle - MONT-LAURIER, Québec
Division d'Argenteuil - LACHUTE, Québec
Division de Deux-Montagnes - SAINT-EUSTACHE, Québec
Division des Laurentides - SAINTE-AGATHE-DES-MONTS, Québec
Division de Mirabel - MIRABEL, Québec
Division des Pays-d'en-Haut - SAINTE-ADÈLE, Québec
Division de la Rivière-du-Nord - SAINT-JÉRÔME, Québec
Division de Thérèse-De Blainville - BLAINVILLE, Québec
Onzième Groupe de Maintenance de la Flotte (11e GMF)
Division de Quartier-Général - LAVAL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte d'Île-Jésus
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Deux-Montagnes - SAINT-EUSTACHE, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Gatineau - GATINEAU, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de la Rivière-du-Nord - SAINT-JÉRÔME, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Thérèse-De Blainville - BLAINVILLE, Québec
Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte de l'Île Sainte-Hélène/Fleet Maintenance Facility Île Sainte-Hélène (IMF ÎLE SAINTE-HÉLÈNE/FMF ÎLE SAINTE-HÉLÈNE)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - Arsenal Navale d'Île-Sainte-Hélène, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte des Îles/Fleet Maintenance Division of the Isles
Détachement de l'Installation Longue-Pointe/Installation Detachment Longue-Pointe - Arsenal Navale de Longue-Pointe, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte du Montréal-Est/Fleet Maintenance Division East Montréal
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Beaconsfield/Fleet Maintenance Division Beaconsfield - BEACONSFIELD, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de LaSalle/Fleet Maintenance Division LaSalle - Arsenal Navale d'Avenue Dollard, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte du Montréal-Nord/Fleet Maintenance Division North Montréal - Arsenal Navale de Parc Frédéric-Back, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte du Montréal-Nord-Ouest/Fleet Maintenance Division Northwest Montréal - Arsenal Navale de Boulevard Pierrefonds, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Mont-Royal/Fleet Maintenance Division Mount Royal - MOUNT ROYAL, Québec
Division de Maintenance de la Flotte d'Outremont/Fleet Maintenance Division Outremont - Arsenal Navale de Parc Jeanne-Mance, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté du Montréal/King's Harbour Master Montréal (CPSM MONTRÉAL/KHM MONTRÉAL)
Division de Quartier-Général/Headquarters Division - Arsenal Navale d'Île-Sainte-Hélène, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port Montréal/Harbour Support Division Montréal
Division d'Appui de Port de Deux-Montagnes - SAINT-EUSTACHE, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port de Gatineau - GATINEAU, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port de Laval - LAVAL, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port de Longue-Pointe/Harbour Support Division Longue-Pointe - Arsenal Navale de Longue-Pointe, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division d'Appui de Port de la Thérèse-De Blainville - BLAINVILLE, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Gatineau (DSPSM GATINEAU)
Quartier-Général - GATINEAU, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Haut-Mille Îles (DSPSM HAUT-MILLE ÎLES)
Quartier-Général - SAINT-EUSTACHE, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Longue-Pointe/Underwater Port Security Division Longue-Pointe (DSPSM LONGUE-POINTE/UPSD LONGUE-POINTE)
Quartier-Général/Headquarters - Arsenal Navale de Longue-Pointe, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Montréal/Underwater Port Security Division Montréal (DSPSM MONTRÉAL/UPSD MONTRÉAL)
Quartier-Général/Headquarters - Arsenal Navale d'Île-Sainte-Hélène, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Musique de la Flottille d'Hochelaga/Hochelaga Flotilla Band (MUS HOCHELAGA/HOCHELAGA BAND)
Quartier-Général/Headquarters - Arsenal Navale de Rue Saint-Jacques, MONTRÉAL, Québec
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Gatineau (NCSM GATINEAU) (PCH-409)
Division de Renforcement des Réserves Navales - GATINEAU, Québec
Quartier Maritime de Navire - MONTRÉAL (ÎLE-SAINTE-HÉLÈNE), Québec
Despite the division of the proposed Western Québec Flotilla into two separate parts, the Hochelaga Flotilla would still possess one of the largest catchment populations in the Naval Reserves. Named in tribute to the old Saint Lawrence Iroquois village sited where Montréal is located today which was encountered by Jacques Cartier in his explorations during the 1530s, the flotilla would cover Québec's first, third and fourth largest cities and their surrounding territory north of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers reaching almost all the way to the middle part of la Belle Province.
The natural flagship of this flotilla is the fully bilingual His Majesty's Canadian Ship Donnacona, one of the oldest of the Naval Reserve units active in Canada today. Now dedicated into becoming the specific naval reserve unit for the city of Montréal, Donnacona would draw on the second largest catchment area of any single "stone frigate", following HMCS York in Toronto. Atop serving as the main place for the naval reserve augmentation division of NCSM Montréal to gather and train, Donnacona would be responsible for providing initial basic training and naval environmental training for ALL Navy and Navy-descent units based in the city limits. Among this would include all naval reserve staff deployed to support the units based at BFC Montréal at their Longue-Pointe garrison; the naval reserve augmentation division for the training patrol craft NCSM Renard at HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt; two of the naval health services support division raised on l'Île du Montréal (Navires CSM Belleau and Masson); the headquarters of Naval Shore Patrol Group Five (NCSM Fort Ville-Marie); a fleet reconnaissance unit for HMCS Kwimu in Halifax as well as the Acoustic Data Analysis Centre Montréal; the Fleet Diving Units Île-Dorval and Longue-Pointe supporting HMCS McNab in Halifax; the headquarters and two squadrons of 242e Régiment du Génie de Construction (Forestiers); the headquarters, supply division and three naval security teams for NCSM Sainte-Hélène...and this does not include flotilla-specific units!
To ensure all of the urban agglomeration of Montréal is covered, Donnacona would have divisions based out of Parc Jeanne-Mance (Centre Division), Mount Royal (Centre-West Division), Longue-Pointe (East Division), Parc Frédéric-Back (North Division), Pierrefonds (Northwest Division), Dollard (Southwest Division) and Beaconsfield (West Division). The South Division and headquarters division would be at the naval arsenal on Rue Saint-Jacques; it would have a detachment on Île Sainte-Hélène (the site of the 1967 International and Universal Exposition AKA Expo 67), which is where the flotilla fleet maintenance unit, Fleet Maintenance Facility Île Sainte-Hélène, would be located. Unlike its sister unit on Île Saint-Bernard a little ways up the Saint Lawrence Seaway, FMF Île Sainte-Hélène would not have any construction facilities, but serve as a summer dockyard for naval vessels that would normally be crewed by Naval Reservists from Ontario who can't fit the locks of the Seaway. Also based at Île Sainte-Hélène would be King's Harbour Master Montréal, which would manage marine traffic and tugboat charters in Montréal Harbour itself and along the Saint Lawrence River down towards Repentigny and Sorel-Tracy.
Second of the operational units of the flotilla is Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Mille Îles, which would recruit from the city of Laval north of Montréal as well as the neighbouring Laurentides Region of the province. Her name literally means "Thousand Islands" and is derived from the Rivière des Mille Îles, an estuary channel of the Ottawa River that divides Île Jésus (where Laval is sited) from the northern shore of the mainland. With her main headquarters and Laval Division in Québec's third largest city, Mille Îles would have divisions at Mont-Laurier (the Antoine-Labelle Division), Lachute (the Argenteuil Division), Saint-Eustache (the Deux-Montagnes Division), Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (the Laurentides Division), Mirabel (the division of the same name), Sainte-Adèle (the Pays-d'en-Haut Division), Saint-Jérôme (the North River Division) and Blainville (the Thérèse De Blainville Division). Mille Îles would also be host ship to the Onzième Groupe de Maintenance de la Flotte, a land-based team of maritime engineers that would deploy to any fleet maintenance facility located by a navigable waterway (such as FMF Île Sainte-Hélène) to assist in ship maintenance and new construction.
The last of the operational units would be the bilingual His Majesty's Canadian Ship Draveur, which covers the Outaouais Region of Québec opposite Ottawa itself. Headquartered in the city of Gatineau, Draveur would be responsible for helping support all Canadian Forces units based in the Outaouais Region and across the river in the city of Ottawa and in neighbouring Renfrew County, chief of which would be detached elements of National Defence Headquarters itself in Gatineau, to say anything of the Air Force's 414e "Ville de Sarnia" (Black Knights) Escadron flying out of the Gatineau Airport east of downtown. Atop its headquarters and Gatineau Division, Draveur would have divisions located at Chelsea (the Outaouais Hills Division), Papineauville (the Papineau Division), Campbell's Bay (the Pontiac Division) and Gracefield (the Gatineau Valley Division). The ship actually gets her name from the log drivers (or "raftmen") who would help send freshly-cut timber from the forests around Ottawa downriver to the pulp mills of Montréal. The ship would also share quarters in two locations with detached squadrons of le Régiment de Hull (CBRC).
Acting as the flotilla's communications hub would be the bilingual Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Hochelaga, headquartered on Avenue Dollard in Montréal. She is named directly in honour of Hochelaga village...and would be second of name. The original HMCS Hochelaga, located in the Lasalle borough of Montréal, was commissioned in 1951 as the Navy's primary logistics facility, supporting all elements of the service. Said stone frigate would be decommissioned when Unification occurred, becoming the Lasalle Detachment of BFC Montréal; Hochelaga herself would be welcomed into the future Royal Canadian Logistics Service as 4 Canadian Forces Supply Depot, which also functioned as the training facility for all supply technicians. Such would be short-lived, though; 4 CFSD would be closed in 1970, with its operational functions taken over by 25 CFSD at Longue-Pointe while all training functions would switch to the Canadian Forces School of Administration and Logistics (now the CF Logistics Training Centre) at CFB Borden. The new Hochelaga would be a dedicated naval radio unit for her like-named flotilla, with supplementary radio sections at Chelsea (honouring a World War Two IOTL HFDF Navy station), Mont-Laurier, Laval and Mirabel.
The flotilla would be assigned four underwater port security divisions, covering the inner part of Montréal Harbour and Île Sainte-Hélène, the area of the Lounge-Pointe Garrison downriver at the east end of Île Montréal, the Rivière des Mille Îles (which isn't navigable thanks to rapids save for pleasure boats) and the Québec side of the Ottawa River from Lachute up to Gatineau (which is navigable to pleasure craft). Also, the flotilla would get roving musical ambassadors, the Hochelaga Flotilla Band.
The only warship assigned to the flotilla would be the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette NCSM Gatineau. However, the Chambly-class frigate NCSM La Hulloise (named after the city of Hull which is a part of the city of Gatineau today) would be built at IMF Île Saint-Bernard alongside her sisters Chambly and Valleyfield; this would allow her commissioning crew to form and train at Draveur before taking their ship into service.
Next: Across the border into Ontario, where we encounter Naval Reserve Central Forces and the Nassau Flotilla!
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Post by pyeknu on May 24, 2019 16:57:11 GMT
And now, we walk into the province that has always been loyal, introducing the Naval Reserves there...!
NAVAL RESERVE FORCES CENTRE/FORCES DE LA RÉSERVE NAVALE (CENTRE)
Commodore, Naval Reserve Forces Centre/Commodore des Forces de la Réserve Navale (Centre) (CMDRE NAVRESCENT/CMDRE RÉSNAVCEN)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Port Lands Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Yonge/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Yonge (HMCS YONGE/NCSM YONGE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Port Lands Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
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
In charge of recruiting, training and deploying for Naval Reserve personnel in Canada's most populous province would be the commodore in charge of the Naval Reserve Forces Centre, drawing in prospective new sailors from a catchment area of 13,283,169 persons by the 2016 census estimates (which includes all of Ontario save the districts of Kenora, Cochrane and Rainy River); to help control all the new units to arise in the region, seven naval reserve flotillas would be formed.
To help direct such a large effort would be the "flagship" of NAVRESCENT, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Yonge. A former tender of Toronto's resident naval reserve unit, HMCS York, Yonge would be established at a new naval arsenal to be located in the Port Lands section of Canada's largest city, to the east of Toronto Harbour in reclaimed land partially formed by sediments flowing down the Don River. Once the new drill hall would be built by the sappers of 1 Construction Engineer Regiment (another unit which would be formed with help from York), Yonge would effectively direct all naval movements in the Great Lakes and the upper Saint Lawrence Seaway; in that, she would work in concert with the United States Navy's Third, Fourth and Ninth Naval Districts headquartered at New York Navy Yard, League Island Navy Yard (Philadelphia) and Lake Training Station (Lake Bluff in Illinois) respectively, much less the United States Coast Guard's District Nine headquartered in Cleveland. Yonge is named in honour of both Yonge Street (mistakenly seen as the longest street in the world) and its namesake, Sir George Yonge, an expert on Roman roads at the time of the Revolutionary War who was a friend of the true founder of modern Ontario, Sir John Graves Simcoe.
As for said force's lead flotilla...
NASSAU FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Nassau Flotilla/Headquarters, Twelfth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] NASSAUFLOT/HQ MOG TWELVE)
Headquarters - Fort York Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Oak Ridges (HMCS OAK RIDGES)
Headquarters Division - Oak Ridges Military Annex and Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND HILL, Ontario
Naval Radio Section Oak Ridges
Supplementary Radio Section Downsview - Downsview Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Georgina - GEORGINA, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Streetsville - Streetsville Naval Arsenal, MISSISSAUGA, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship York (HMCS YORK)
Headquarters Division - Fort York Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Fort York Division
Central Toronto Division - Casa Loma Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Don Valley Division - Don Mills Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Etobicoke Division - Mimico Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
North Scarborough Division - Browns Corners Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
North York Division - Downsview Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
South Scarborough Division - McCowan Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Toronto-East York Division - Port Lands Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Missinnihe (HMCS MISSINNIHE)
Headquarters Division - Port Credit Naval Arsenal, MISSISSAUGA, Ontario
South Mississauga Division
Caledon Division - CALEDON, Ontario
East Brampton Division - Bramalea Naval Arsenal, BRAMPTON, Ontario
North Mississauga Division - Streetsville Naval Arsenal and Military Annex, MISSISSAUGA, Ontario
West Brampton Division - Mount Pleasant Naval Arsenal and Military Annex, BRAMPTON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nassau (HMCS NASSAU)
Headquarters Division - AURORA, Ontario
Central York Division
Central York Division Detachment Oak Ridges - Oak Ridges Military Annex and Naval Arsenal, RICHMOND HILL, Ontario
East York Division - MARKHAM, Ontario
York North Division - GEORGINA, Ontario
West York Division - VAUGHAN, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Facility York (FMF YORK)
Headquarters Division - Port Lands Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Toronto
Fleet Maintenance Division Aurora - AURORA, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Brampton - Bramalea Naval Arsenal, BRAMPTON, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Don Mills - Don Mills Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Etobicoke - Mimico Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Markham - MARKHAM, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Mississauga - Port Credit Naval Arsenal, MISSISSAUGA, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division North York - Downsview Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Scarborough - Browns Corners Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Vaughan - VAUGHAN, Ontario
King's Harbour Master Toronto (KHM TORONTO)
Headquarters Division - Fort York Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Humber
Harbour Support Division Don - Port Lands Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Georgina - GEORGINA, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Port Credit - Port Credit Naval Arsenal, MISSISSAUGA, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Lake Simcoe (UPSD LAKE SIMCOE)
Headquarters - GEORGINA, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Port Credit (UPSD PORT CREDIT)
Headquarters - Port Credit Naval Arsenal, MISSISSAUGA, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Toronto (UPSD TORONTO)
Headquarters - Port Lands Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
Fort York Band of the Nassau Flotilla (FT YORK BAND)
Headquarters - Fort York Naval Arsenal, TORONTO, Ontario
The Naval Reserve formation that would blossom from Canada's largest city and two of its neighbouring regional municipalities, the Nassau Flotilla takes her name from one of the old regional districts of Upper Canada that was established before the colony was separated from the old Province of Québec in 1791; said district would be renamed the "Home District" a year later. The area of the old Nassau District covered a swath of modern-day southern Ontario from the area of what today is Norfolk County on the shores of Lake Erie east to the Trent River where it enters the Bay of Quinte, an arm of Lake Ontario. Despite its German connotations, the name "Nassau" (which hails ultimately from the Duchy of Nassau on the Rhine River that later became part of Prussia) was seen as a more acceptable and certainly less patronizing name than calling this formation the "Home Flotilla".
Flagship of said flotilla is Toronto's own naval reserve unit, His Majesty's Canadian Ship York. Named in honour of Fort York (the first British garrison in modern-day Toronto, located close to the waterfront west of downtown), said ship is an effective Canadian sister of the lead of her class of heavy cruisers, HMS York (pendant C90); they even share the same white rose on a golden sun badge (with the Canadian stone frigate having three maple leaves at the base of her crest) and battle honours. Where once she would have taken in people from all over south-central Ontario, York would be made to concentrate recruiting in the city of Toronto after the Shift. Atop her headquarters and Fort York Division on the Toronto waterfront, York would have divisions based in the wards of Toronto—St. Paul's (the Central Toronto Division), Don Valley East (the Don Valley Division), the old lakefront town of Mimico (the Etobicoke Division), Scarborough—Rouge River (the North Scarborough Division), the former Canadian Forces Base Toronto at the Downsview Airport (the North York Division), Scarborough Centre (the South Scarborough Division) and the Port Lands area of Toronto—Danforth (the Toronto-East York Division, which would double as host division for HMCS Yonge). Like her sister unit NCSM Donnacona in Montréal, York would be the effective host unit for a score of naval reserve units and sub-units established in Toronto itself; chief among them would be the Fleet Maintenance Facility York (which would have a dry dock for ship construction as well as a maintenance yard for any visiting warship that can get through the Seaway) and King's Harbour Master Toronto (which would handle all maritime traffic control and tugboat charters to monitor all shipping in and out of Toronto).
In World War Two IOTL, the county of Peel to Toronto's west didn't have a large population save for what was concentrated around Brampton. By the "replay" of the Fifth Great European Free-For-All, the city of Mississauga (formed in 1974 from most of the territory of the Township of Toronto and the communities of Port Credit and Streetsville) had become Canada's sixth largest city! Thus, after the Shift, it was seen as vital to tap into such a large catchment of population; the Regional Municipality of Peel (a more streamlined version of the old Peel County) was Ontario's second-largest first-level "county" government with a population of 1,381,739 at the 2016 census. Thus, York's post-Shift tender formed at Port Credit on the Lake Ontario shoreline of Mississauga would be commissioned as His Majesty's Canadian Ship Missinnihe, using the native name of the Credit River that flows through the heart of Peel (which means "trusting creek"). Though not given the chance to help form a commissioning crew for a warship in THIS round of World War Two, Missinnihe would still provide a lot of sailors for service in the Navy. With her headquarters and South Mississauga Division at Port Credit, she would have divisions based out of old Streetsville (the North Mississauga Division), the old village of Bramalea east of downtown Brampton (the East Brampton Division), the new Brampton neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant (the West Brampton Division) and the town of Caledon that takes up half of Peel Region's physical area for the division of the same name. Elements of the ship's company would eventually share quarters with detached squadrons of the 9th Mississauga Horse.
Covering Ontario's third regional municipality created in 1970 (after old Metropolitan Toronto in 1954 and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton in 1969) from old York County north of Toronto itself is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Nassau, named in tribute to the old district name from the bygone days of Upper Canada. With headquarters and the Central York Division located in the town of Aurora, Nassau would have divisions based in the city of Markham (the East York Division), the township of Georgina on the shores of Lake Simcoe (the York North Division) and the city of Vaughan (the West York Division); the Central York Division would also maintain the Oak Ridges Detachment in Richmond Hill south of Aurora and between Vaughan and Markham to serve as host unit for the flotilla's in-house communications unit (see below). Nassau would, as does Missinnihe, serve mostly as a manning source unit for the active Navy; she would also help in various training exercises based out of the Georgina Naval Arsenal using the nicely-isolated Lake Simcoe as a practice area for various activities. As an aside, the proposed ship's crest for Nassau would have the shield of the old Duchy of Nassau embossed on a gold maple leaf embossed on a green-and-white "sea" marking her as a stone frigate; the joke about this would be that this would salute the time when "Germany was civilized!" As with Missinnihe, Nassau would share quarters at one location with a detached squadron of the Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC).
The flotilla's in-house communications unit is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Oak Ridges, based at the like-named naval drill hall and militia annex in Richmond Hill. Named in honour of the Oak Ridges Moraine that cuts through south-central Ontario from the area of the Niagara Escarpment in Caledon east to south of Rice Lake in Northumberland County, Oak Ridges would have supplementary stations located at Downsview, Georgina and Streetsville.
The flotilla would be assigned three underwater port security divisions, based in the Port Lands of Toronto, Port Credit in Mississauga and Georgina on Lake Simcoe; the last of the divisions would be effectively an operational training unit for port security divers. Finally, York's in-house band would be made independent and become the Fort York Band of the Nassau Flotilla to serve as the flotilla's musical ambassadors.
No warship is currently assigned to the Nassau Flotilla. However, the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Toronto receives her naval reserve augmentation division from York. Also, the Nassau Flotilla would serve as host formation for the commissioning crew of the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Swansea, named after the former town sitting on the east bank of the Humber River at the shores of Lake Ontario in old Toronto; once FMF York is fully operational, it is there that Swansea will be assembled.
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Post by pyeknu on May 25, 2019 11:33:45 GMT
Now, heading down Highway 401 to its western end...where the Gordie Howe Bridge will still hopefully be built into Michigan...!
THAMES FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Thames Flotilla/Headquarters, Fourteenth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] THAMESFLOT/HQ MOG FOURTEEN)
Headquarters - The Forks Naval Arsenal, LONDON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Askunessippi (HMCS ASKUNESSIPPI)
Headquarters Division - STRATHROY, Ontario
Naval Radio Section Thames
Supplementary Radio Section Detroit - AMHURSTBURG, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Kent - Chatham Naval Arsenal, CHATHAM-KENT, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Lambton - FOREST, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Medway - The Forks Naval Arsenal, LONDON, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Oxford - TILLSONBURG, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Queen's Tract - STRATFORD, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Prevost (HMCS PREVOST)
Headquarters Division - The Forks Naval Arsenal, LONDON, Ontario
West London Division
Central Elgin Division - SAINT THOMAS, Ontario
Central Oxford Division - WOODSTOCK, Ontario
East Elgin Division - AYLMER, Ontario
East Elgin Division Detachment Port Stanley - PORT STANLEY, Ontario
East London Division - Highbury Naval Arsenal, LONDON, Ontario
North Middlesex Division - ALISA CRAIG, Ontario
South Oxford Division - TILLSONBURG, Ontario
West Elgin Division - DUTTON, Ontario
West Middlesex Division - STRATHROY, Ontario
West Oxford Division - INGERSOLL, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Clinton (HMCS CLINTON)
Headquarters Division - STRATFORD, Ontario
Avon Division
Central Huron Division - GODERICH, Ontario
East Huron Division - SEAFORTH, Ontario
North Huron Division - WINGHAM, Ontario
North Perth Division - LISTOWEL, Ontario
South Huron Division - EXETER, Ontario
South Perth Division - SAINT MARYS, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Hesse (HMCS HESSE)
Headquarters Division - SARNIA, Ontario
Port Edward and Sarnia Division
Lambton Shores Division - FOREST, Ontario
Oil Springs Division - PETROLIA, Ontario
West Lambton Division - PORT LAMBTON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Hunter (HMCS HUNTER)
Headquarters Division - Mill Street Naval Arsenal and Military Annex, WINDSOR, Ontario
Windsor Division
Fort Malden Division - AMHURSTBURG, Ontario
Kent Division - Chatham Naval Arsenal, CHATHAM-KENT, Ontario
Peele Division - LEAMINGTON, Ontario
Saint Clair Division - BELLE RIVER, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Facility Windsor (FMF WINDSOR)
Headquarters Division - Mill Street Naval Arsenal and Military Annex, WINDSOR, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Essex
Fleet Maintenance Division Elgin - SAINT THOMAS, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Kent - Chatham Naval Arsenal, CHATHAM-KENT, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Lambton - SARNIA, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division London - The Forks Naval Arsenal, LONDON, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Middlesex - ALISA CRAIG, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Oxford - WOODSTOCK, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Perth - LISTOWEL, Ontario
King's Harbour Master Windsor (KHM WINDSOR)
Headquarters Division - Mill Street Naval Arsenal and Military Annex, WINDSOR, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Upper Detroit
Harbour Support Division Lower Detroit - AMHURSTBURG, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Lower Huron - WINGHAM, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Peele - LEAMINGTON, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Port Stanley - PORT STANLEY, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Saint Clair - SARNIA, Ontario
Submarine Airmobile Assistance Team Windsor (SAAT WINDSOR)
Headquarters - Mill Street Naval Arsenal and Military Annex, WINDSOR, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Amhurtsburg (UPSD AMHURTSBURG)
Headquarters - AMHURSTBURG, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Goderich (UPSD GODERICH)
Headquarters - EXETER, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Kingsville (UPSD KINGSVILLE)
Headquarters - LEAMINGTON, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Port Stanley (UPSD PORT STANLEY)
Headquarters - DUTTON, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Sarnia (UPSD SARNIA)
Headquarters - SARNIA, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Windsor (UPSD WINDSOR)
Headquarters - Mill Street Naval Arsenal and Military Annex, WINDSOR, Ontario
Thames Flotilla Band (THAMES BAND)
Headquarters - The Forks Naval Arsenal, LONDON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Saint Clair (HMCS SAINT CLAIR) (PCH-415)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - SARNIA, Ontario
Ship's Home Port (Summer) - WINDSOR, Ontario
Ship's Home Port (Winter) - SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
Originally meant to be part of an all-encompassing "Western Ontario Flotilla" that would cover the shores of Lakes Erie and Huron as well as Georgian Bay, it was decided to split apart the formation into two groups, with one group lucking out and getting both pre-Shift naval reserve units in the catchment area while the other would have to form everything virtually from scratch with the help of both HMC Ships Prevost in London and York in Toronto. The Thames Flotilla would be responsible for everything that occurs in western Lake Erie and southern Lake Huron as well as the interconnecting waterways; in that, the formation would work hand-in-hand with the American Ninth Naval District headquartered from near Chicago and the Coast Guard's District Nine located across Lake Erie in Cleveland.
One of the two pre-Shift naval reserve units that would be in the Thames Flotilla would be the flagship, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Prevost, based out of the naval arsenal set close to where the Thames River splits in two in downtown London, forming the "south branch" which carries the river's name west to Tavistock in old Oxford County and the "north branch" flowing up to Stratford in Perth County. In comparison to some of the other original naval reserve units, Prevost has had something of a checkered history; formed in 1938 and commissioned under her name in 1941 (named after HMS Lady Prevost that fought at the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813, being lost to the Americans at that time), she would serve until being paid off in 1964 due to the deep cuts in the Forces at the time, staying inactive until being recommissioned in 1990 after serving as a tender to HMCS Star in Hamilton since 1977. After the Shift, Prevost would be assigned to recruit from the independent cities of London and Saint Thomas as well as the counties of Middlesex and Elgin and the regional municipality of Oxford County; to enable this, she would form divisions at Saint Thomas (the Central Elgin Division), Woodstock (the Central Oxford Division), Aylmer (the East Elgin Division), Alisa Craig (the North Middlesex Division), Tillsonburg (the South Oxford Division), Dutton (the West Elgin Division), Strathroy (the West Middlesex Division) and Ingersoll (the West Oxford Division). Within London itself, Prevost would have the headquarters and West London Division at the Forks Naval Arsenal while the East London Division would be based out of a new naval arsenal located at the old Canadian Forces London's Highbury Detachment. Also, the East Elgin Division would have a detachment at Port Stanley south of Saint Thomas on the shores of Lake Erie.
Covering Huron and Perth Counties and the independent cities of Stratford and Saint Mary's would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Clinton. Named in honour of the old Royal Canadian Air Force station (and briefly Canadian Forces base) that served as a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan flying school in World War Two IOTL south of the town of the same name in Huron County, Clinton would have her headquarters and Avon Division in Stratford itself. Divisions would also be located at Goderich on the shores of Lake Huron (the Central Huron Division), Seaforth (the East Huron Division), Wingham (the North Huron Division), Listowel (the North Perth Division), Exeter (the South Huron Division) and Saint Mary's (the South Perth Division). Atop providing naval reserve augmentation crews for various ships based out of both coasts, Clinton would be responsible for bringing back her old namesake airfield to full operational service for use by the Royal Canadian Air Force with the assistance of 238 Construction Engineer Regiment's local detachments; this would reduce the number of personnel flying out of Canadian Forces Base Borden.
Covering Lambton County would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Hesse. With her headquarters and Port Elgin and Sarnia Division located in Sarnia itself to cover the Blue Water Bridge that once connected Highway 402 to Interstates 94 and 69 in Michigan, Hesse would form divisions at Forest (the Lambton Shores Division), Petrolia (the Oil Springs Division) and Port Lambton close to where the Saint Clair River flows into Lake Saint Clair (the West Lambton Division). Like her sister unit Nassau in York Region, Hesse gets her name from one of the founding governing districts of old Upper Canada, which originally covered the territory west of Nassau District to the border with the-then Northwest Territory (modern-day Michigan); said district would simply be renamed the "Western District" in 1792. Also like Nassau, Hesse would adopt as her ship's crest the symbol of the modern state of Hessen in up-time Germany on a golden maple leaf in a green-and-white "sea".
Finally covering the independent city of Windsor, the county of Essex and the independent city of Chatham-Kent (old Kent County) would be the other pre-Shift naval reserve unit in the area, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Hunter. With headquarters and the Windsor Division in the largest city in the area, Hunter would also form divisions in Amherstburg (the Fort Malden Division), the former city of Chatham in Chatham-Kent (the Kent Division), Leamington (the Peele Division) and Belle River (the Saint Clair Division). Being located on the Detroit River, Hunter would be the host unit of both Fleet Maintenance Facility Windsor and the King's Harbour Master Windsor, the flotilla's in-house maintenance and maritime traffic control agencies. FMF Windsor would be made a construction yard for the Navy; the unit would take up residence on the north side of the Morterm Dock just south of where the Howe Bridge would be constructed; with two building docks, the facility would be ready to start pumping out new warships and other vessels by the end of 1942, possessing easy access to suppliers via Canada's busiest highway. KHM Windsor would, as its sister units do elsewhere, handle marine traffic control and tugboat charters in concert with the United States Coast Guard. Also, since HMCS Windsor's namesake city is in Hunter's catchment zone, the Submarine Airmobile Assistance Team Windsor would be formed in town to be available for use whenever there are emergencies with Canadian or Allied submarines.
To link all the units in the flotilla together, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Askunessippi would be commissioned in Strathroy near London as the in-house communications unit. With her primary naval radio section at the Strathroy Naval Arsenal, Askunessippi would have detached supplementary radio sections at Amherstburg, Chatham, Forest, London, Tillsonburg and Stratford. Askunessippi gets her name from the Neutral peoples who once lived in southwest Ontario; it is their term for the Thames River, meaning "antlered river".
Atop the six underwater port security divisions covering all the major and minor ports in the region to prevent potential smuggling across the border in this once-busiest corridor of Canadian-American trade, the formation would have the Thames Flotilla Band formed from Prevost's in-house musical troupe.
Seen as directly assigned to the Thames Flotilla would be the Saguenay-class helicopter corvette HMCS Saint Clair, which would reside at FMF Windsor during the summer months and shift down to FMF Saint John in New Brunswick during the winter months. Saint Clair would be constructed at FMF Windsor, along with the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Saint Thomas. With her commissioning crew raised by Prevost, Saint Thomas would work up in Lake Erie before sailing around the continent to take up her assignment at CFB Esquimalt as part of the Pacific Fleet.
Next: The other half of the old Western Ontario Flotilla, the Navy in Huronia and Cottage Country!
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Post by pyeknu on May 25, 2019 14:05:12 GMT
And the northern part of what would have been the Western Ontario Flotilla...
GEORGIAN FLOTILLA/FLOTTILLE DE GEORGIENNE
Captain (Navy), Georgian Flotilla/Capitaine de Vaisseau de la Flottille de Georgienne (CAPT[N] GEORFLOT/CAPV FLOTGEOR)
Headquarters, Fifteenth Maritime Operations Group/Quartier-Général de la Quinzième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (HQ MOG 15/QG 15e GOM)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - BARRIE, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Earl Grey/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Earl Grey (HMCS EARL GREY/NCSM EARL GREY)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - MEAFORD, Ontario
Naval Radio Section Meaford/Section de Radio Navale Meaford
Supplementary Radio Section Bruce/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Bruce - KINCARDINE, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Couchiching/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Couchiching - ORILLA, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Dufferin/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Dufferin - ORANGEVILLE, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Kempenfelt/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Kempenfelt - BARRIE, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Muskoka/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Muskoka - HUNTSVILLE, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Wellington/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Wellington - GUELPH, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Sainte-Marie/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Sainte-Marie (HMCS SAINTE-MARIE/NCSM SAINTE-MARIE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - BARRIE, Ontario
Central Simcoe Division/Division du Centre de Simcoe
Eastern Simcoe Division/Division d'Est de Simcoe - ORILLIA, Ontario
North Dufferin Division/Division du Nord de Dufferin - SHELBURNE, Ontario
North Simcoe Division/Division du Nord de Simcoe - PENETANGUISHINE, Ontario
Northwest Simcoe Division/Division du Nord-Ouest de Simcoe - COLLINGWOOD, Ontario
South Dufferin Division/Division du Sud de Dufferin - ORANGEVILLE, Ontario
South Simcoe Division/Division du Sud de Simcoe - BRADFORD, Ontario
Southwest Simcoe Division/Division du Sud-Ouest de Simcoe - Thompson Barracks, BORDEN, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Eramosa (HMCS ERAMOSA)
Headquarters Division - GUELPH, Ontario
Guelph and Eramosa Division
Central Wellington Division - FERGUS, Ontario
North Wellington Division - ARTHUR, Ontario
South Wellington Division - ROCKWOOD, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Lord Elgin (HMCS LORD ELGIN)
Headquarters Division - KINCARDINE, Ontario
South Bruce Division
Central Bruce Division - SOUTHAMPTON, Ontario
East Grey Division - MEAFORD, Ontario
North Bruce Division - WIARTON, Ontario
North Grey Division - OWEN SOUND, Ontario
South Grey Division - DURHAM, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Segwun (HMCS SEGWUN)
Headquarters Division - HUNTSVILLE, Ontario
North Muskoka and South Parry Sound Division
Central Muskoka Division - BRACEBRIDGE, Ontario
North Parry Sound Division - CALLENDER, Ontario
South Muskoka Division - GRAVENHURST, Ontario
West Parry Sound Division - PARRY SOUND, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Facility Georgian Bay/Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte de Baie Georgienne (FMF GEORGIAN BAY/IMF BAIE GEORGIENNE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - COLLINGWOOD, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Simcoe/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Simcoe
Fleet Maintenance Division Bruce/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Bruce - KINCARDINE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Couchiching/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Couchiching - ORILLIA, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Dufferin/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Dufferin - ORANGEVILLE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Grey/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Grey - DURHAM, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Kempenfelt/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Kempenfelt - BARRIE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Muskoka/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Muskoka - BRACEBRIDGE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Wellington/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte Wellington - GUELPH, Ontario
King's Harbour Master Georgian Bay/Capitaine de Port de Sa Majesté de Baie Georgienne (KHM GEORGIAN BAY/CPSM BAIE GEORGIENNE)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - BARRIE, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Simcoe/Division d'Appui de Port de Simcoe
Harbour Support Division Bruce/Division d'Appui de Port Bruce - SOUTHAMPTON, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Collingwood/Division d'Appui de Port Collingwood - COLLINGWOOD, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Couchiching/Division d'Appui de Port de Couchiching - ORILLIA, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Grey/Division d'Appui de Port Grey - DURHAM, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Parry Sound/Division d'Appui de Port Parry Sound - PARRY SOUND, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Collingwood (UPSD COLLINGWOOD)
Headquarters - COLLINGWOOD, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Owen Sound (UPSD OWEN SOUND)
Headquarters - OWEN SOUND, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Parry Sound (UPSD PARRY SOUND)
Headquarters - PARRY SOUND, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Penetanguishine/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins Penetanguishine (UPSD PENETANGUISHINE/DSPSM PENETANGUISHINE)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - PENETANGUISHINE, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Training Division Lake Simcoe/Division d'Entraînement de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Lac-Simcoe (UPSTD LAKE SIMCOE/DESPSM LAC-SIMCOE)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - BARRIE, Ontario
Huronia Band of the Georgian Flotilla/Musique d'Huronia de la Flottille de Georgienne (HURONIA BAND/MUS HURONIE)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - BARRIE, Ontario
Formed from the northern part of the catchment area of the proposed Western Ontario Flotilla, the Georgian Flotilla would be composed of all brand new units, though it would partially spring from the old Naval Reserve Training Division at Canadian Forces Base Borden, which would morph after the Shift into Canadian Forces Naval Fleet School Borden, the fleet training unit dedicated to supporting Naval Reserve Central Force. While not getting the chance to get an active warship to serve as its seagoing element, the Georgian Flotilla would be the place where the pre-commissioning crews of several vessels would muster and train before they would deploy to their new ships, chief among them being two of the Navy's new hospital ships, His Majesty's Canadian Hospital Ship John McCrae (rising in Guelph from HMCS Eramosa) and His Majesty's Canadian Hospital Ship Norman Bethune (rising in Gravenhurst from HMCS Segwin).
Formed originally as a detached tender of HMCS York in Toronto would be the flotilla's flagship, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Sainte-Marie, with headquarters and the Central Simcoe Division based out of the independent city of Barrie. Effectively serving as the home navy unit for the cities of Barrie and Orillia and the counties of Simcoe and Dufferin, Sainte-Marie takes her name from the old French Jesuit settlement located on the east shore of the Wye River flowing into Georgian Bay; this settlement is more often known these days as Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons and is considered a Canadian national historic site. As well as serving as effective host unit for CFNFS Borden, Sainte-Marie would also serve as host unit for both Fleet Maintenance Facility Georgian Bay based out of nearby Collingwood as well as King's Harbour Master Georgian Bay with headquarters in Barrie itself. FMF Georgian Bay would serve as the flotilla's naval engineering establishment. It would be sited at the old Collingwood Shipbuilding yards on the waterfront and would have a new pair of dry docks constructed by 238 Construction Engineer Regiment's local detachments; to arise once the place is operational would be hull components of both John McCrae and Norman Bethune, which would be shipped down the Saint Lawrence Seaway for final assembly at Chantier Davie Canada Inc in Lévis. Naturally, KHM Georgian Bay would manage marine traffic in the upper part of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay...and would also take responsibility for marine traffic in Lake Simcoe and the elements of the Trent-Severn Waterway from Port Severn on Georgian Bay downstream to Bobcaygeon on the border between Peterborough County and the city of Kawartha Lakes. Given such a large catchment area for recruiting, Sainte-Marie would have divisions located in Orillia (the East Simcoe Division), Shelburne (the North Dufferin Division), Penatanguishine (the North Simcoe Division), Collingwood (the Northwest Simcoe Division), Orangeville (the South Dufferin Division), Bradford (the South Simcoe Division) and in newly-constructed barracks on the grounds of CFB Borden (the Southwest Simcoe Division).
A tender of HMCS Prevost in London would be established at Kincardine on the shores of Lake Huron, being later commissioned as His Majesty's Canadian Ship Lord Elgin. She is named in tribute to James Bruce, the eighth Earl of Elgin, who served as governor general of the Province of Canada from1847-54; it was he who forced through the initial establishment of true responsible government on the territory in the wake of the Rebellions of 1837. Made the home naval unit of the counties of Bruce and Grey, Lord Elgin would have divisions based out of Southampton (the Central Bruce Division), Meaford (the East Grey Division), Wiarton (the North Bruce Division), Owen Sound (the North Grey Division) and Durham (the South Grey Division); headquarters and the South Bruce Division would be in Kincardine. Lord Elgin would, atop providing reinforcement crew for the active Navy, help support the Canadian Army's active training range at Camp Meaford, located northwest of its namesake town.
For Wellington County and the independent city of Guelph, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Eramosa would be commissioned, formed originally as a tender to HMCS Star in Hamilton. Once fully commissioned, said unit would form divisions in Fergus to cover the central part of the county, Arthur to cover the northern reach of the county and Rockwood to cover the southern reach of the county bordering Hamilton itself; the main naval arsenal would host the Guelph/Eramosa division which would provide the core of John McCrae's commissioning crew. The ship takes her name from the Eramosa River flowing through Guelph; many believe that the word is a corruption of an indigenous phrase meaning "dead dog". Naturally, the people at the Canadian Heraldic Authority wouldn't put that sort of thing on Eramosa's ship's crest! Thus, to honour the medieval House of Welf whose name was corrupted into "Guelph", the rampant blue lion on a field of gold from the old principality of Lüneburg (located near the Elbe River close to Hamburg) would be used instead...though in lieu of a shower of red hearts as on the old principality's crest, red maple leaves would be used instead.
The final unit covering the district municipality of Muskoka and the district of Parry Sound would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Segwun, formed as a tender to Sainte-Marie before being commissioned in Huntsville; it is there that the North Muskoka and South Parry Sound Division would be based. Segwun would be permitted to establish divisions covering both parts of Cottage Country atop forming the commissioning crew of Norman Bethune; they would be sited at Bracebridge covering central Muskoka, Callender near North Bay covering the northern part of Parry Sound District, Gravenhurst covering southern Muskoka and the town of Parry Sound covering the western part of its namesake district. Segwun gets her name from the only Canadian ship bearing the prefix RMS (Royal Mail Ship); the oldest steam-powered vessel still active in Canada at the time of the Shift, she is a passenger ferry that cruises the Muskoka Lakes and has served as such for over a century. The name itself is an Ojibwe term meaning "springtime".
To connect all the units of the flotilla, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Earl Grey would be commissioned at Meaford. This ship would be named in tribute to two people who had quite the impact on Canada. First was Henry Grey, the third Earl Grey, who was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in the United Kingdom from 1846-52; it was he who appointed his peer James Bruce as governor general of the Province of Canada (it was his father Charles, the second Earl, to whom Earl Grey tea is named after). Then there was his nephew Albert Grey, who became the fourth Earl Grey because Lord Henry died without children; he would serve as governor general of the Dominion of Canada from 1904-11...and YES, he was the man who bestowed the Grey Cup for the senior annual football champions in Canada (which today is awarded to the top team of the Canadian Football League). Earl Grey the ship would have supplementary radio sections located at Kincardine, Orillia, Barrie, Orangeville, Huntsville and Guelph.
Atop the four active underwater port security divisions assigned to protect the ports in the flotilla's catchment area, the regional training unit would be based here, Underwater Port Security Training Division Lake Simcoe, located in Barrie. UPSTD Lake Simcoe will often work with its sister unit in Georgina across the late (introduced with the Nassau Flotilla) in keeping the lake secure for pleasure boat transit.
Finally, the flotilla's musical ambassadors, the Huronia Band of the Georgian Flotilla, would be established at Barrie. Fortunately, the Canadian Forces School of Music is based at Borden, so first-hand instruction in military musical performance is always close at hand.
Like some of the other Naval Reserve formations, the Georgian Flotilla wouldn't have an active warship assigned to it. However, atop providing commissioning crews to two of Canada's hospital ships, the flotilla would also provide the commissioning crew of the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Owen Sound, to be built at Collingwood.
Next: The Naval Reserves of the Golden Horseshoe!
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Post by pyeknu on May 25, 2019 15:29:58 GMT
And now, the Naval Reserves in my part of Ontario...
GORE FLOTILLA/FLOTTILLE DU GORE
Captain (Navy), Gore Flotilla/Capitaine de Vaisseau de la Flottille du Gore (CAPT[N] GOREFLOT/CAPV FLOTGORE)
Headquarters, Thirteenth Maritime Operations Group/Quartier-Général de la Treizième Groupe des Opérations Maritimes (HQ MOG THIRTEEN/QG 13e GOM)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Catharine Street Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Secord/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Secord (HMCS SECORD/NCSM SECORD)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Port Weller Naval Annex/Annexe Navale à Port Weller, SAINT CATHARINES, Ontario
Naval Radio Section Niagara/Section de Radio Navale Niagara
Supplementary Radio Section Grand River/Section de Radio Supplémentaire de la Rivière Grand - BRANTFORD, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Halton/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Halton - MILTON, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Waterloo/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Waterloo - CAMBRIDGE, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Wentworth/Section de Radio Supplémentaire Wentworth - Catharine Street Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Star (HMCS STAR)
Headquarters Division - Catharine Street Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
Barton Division
Ancaster, Dundas and Flamborough Division - Ancaster Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
Brantford Division - BRANTFORD, Ontario
Haldimand Division - DUNNVILLE, Ontario
Haldimand Division Detachment - PORT MAITLAND, Ontario
Norfolk Division - SIMCOE, Ontario
North Brant Division - PARIS, Ontario
South Brant Division - ONONDAGA, Ontario
Stoney Creek and Glanbrook Division - Stoney Creek Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Conestonga (HMCS CONESTOGA)
Headquarters Division - CAMBRIDGE, Ontario
South Waterloo Division
Central Waterloo Division - KITCHENER, Ontario
North Waterloo Division - WATERLOO, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Queenston/Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Queenston (HMCS QUEENSTON/NCSM QUEENSTON)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Fort George Naval Arsenal/Arsenal Naval de Fort George, NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario
East Niagara Division/Division de l'Est de Niagara
North Niagara Division/Division du Nord de Niagara - Port Weller Naval Annex/Annexe Navale à Port Weller, SAINT CATHARINES, Ontario
South Niagara Division/Division du Sud de Niagara - Merrittsville Armoury and Naval Arsenal/Manège Militaire et Arsenal Naval de Merrittsville, WELLAND, Ontario
South Niagara Division Detachment/Détachement de Division du Sud de Niagara - Elizabeth Street Naval Annex/Annexe Navale de la Rue Elizabeth, PORT COLBORNE, Ontario
West Niagara Division/Division de l'Ouest de Niagara - Forty Mile Creek Naval Annex/Annexe Navale de Ruisseau Forty Mile, GRIMSBY, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Thayendanegea (HMCS THAYENDANEGEA)
Headquarters Division - BURLINGTON, Ontario
Burlington Division
Halton Hills Division - Georgetown Naval Arsenal, HALTON HILLS, Ontario
Milton Division - MILTON, Ontario
Oakville Division - Ortona Naval Arsenal, OAKVILLE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Facility Niagara/Installation de Maintenance de la Flotte Niagara (FMF NIAGARA/IMF NIAGARA)
Headquarters Division/Division de Quartier-Général - Port Weller Naval Annex/Annexe Navale à Port Weller, SAINT CATHARINES, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division North Niagara/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte du Nord de Niagara
Fleet Maintenance Division Haldimand/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte d'Haldimand - DUNNVILLE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Halton/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte d'Halton - Ortona Naval Arsenal, OAKVILLE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division South Niagara/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte du Sud de Niagara - Elizabeth Street Naval Annex/Annexe Navale de la Rue Elizabeth, PORT COLBORNE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Waterloo/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte du Waterloo - KITCHENER, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Wentworth/Division de Maintenance de la Flotte de Wentworth - Catharine Street Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
King's Harbour Master Hamilton (KHM HAMILTON)
Headquarters Division - Catharine Street Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Wentworth
Harbour Support Division Halton - Ortona Naval Arsenal, OAKVILLE, Ontario
Harbour Support Division North Welland - Port Weller Naval Annex/Annexe Navale à Port Weller, SAINT CATHARINES, Ontario
Harbour Support Division South Welland - Merrittsville Armoury and Naval Arsenal/Manège Militaire et Arsenal Naval de Merrittsville, WELLAND, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Grand River (UPSD GRAND RIVER)
Headquarters - DUNNVILLE, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Halton (UPSD HALTON)
Headquarters - Ortona Naval Arsenal, OAKVILLE, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Hamilton (UPSD HAMILTON)
Headquarters - Catharine Street Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division North Niagara/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Nord de Niagara (UPSD NORTH NIAGARA/DSPSM NORD DE NIAGARA)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Port Weller Naval Annex/Annexe Navale à Port Weller, SAINT CATHARINES, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division South Niagara/Division de la Sécurité des Ports Sous-Marins du Sud de Niagara (UPSD SOUTH NIAGARA/DSPSM SUD DE NIAGARA)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Merrittsville Armoury and Naval Arsenal/Manège Militaire et Arsenal Naval de Merrittsville, WELLAND, Ontario
Newark Band of the Gore Flotilla/Musique du Newark de la Flottille du Gore (NEWARK BAND/MUS NEWARK)
Headquarters/Quartier-Général - Catharine Street Naval Arsenal, HAMILTON, Ontario
Navire Canadien de Sa Majesté Niagara (NCSM NIAGARA) (PCH-414)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Fort George Naval Arsenal/Arsenal Naval de Fort George, NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario
Quartier Maritime de Navire - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
Covering the Niagara Peninsula bordering western New York, the city of Hamilton and surrounding territories, the Gore Flotilla gets her name (as with several of the other Ontario-based formations) on a pre-Confederation sub-provincial administrative unit. The Gore District was formed in the early part of the Nineteenth Century, absorbing territory from the old Nassau District as well as the land grant along the Grand River that had been given to the Iroquois Confederacy after the Revolutionary War as a way of paying them back for their loyalty; the district government would be shut down in 1849. The old district and the modern naval reserve unit takes its name from the geographic/geological term for a triangular piece of land; the badge of the flotilla would have three golden anchors in a pyramid formation on a green field.
The main unit of this formation would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Star, one of the oldest of the pre-Shift naval reserve units. With headquarters and the Barton Division (named after the old township where most of downtown Hamilton sits today) on Pier 9 just north of downtown, Star was given the honour of taking effective oversight of one of Canada's two surviving World War Two IOTL warships, the Tribal-class HMCS Haida, in 2002; from her decommissioning in 1963 until then, the most successful warship of the RCN had been anchored next to Ontario Place in Toronto. Once through the Shift and ordered to mobilize, Star would be given the catchment territory of the cities of Hamilton and Brantford and the municipalities of Brant County, Norfolk County and Haldimand County; divisions would be located at Brantford (for the city itself), Dunnville (for Haldimand), Simcoe (for Norfolk), Paris (for the northern side of Brant), Onondaga (for the southern part of Brant), Ancaster (for the pre-unification towns of Ancaster, Dundas and Flamborough to downtown Hamilton's west and northwest) and Stoney Creek (for the pre-unification town of the same name and the old township of Glanbrook to downtown Hamilton's east and south). Atop serving as the site where the commissioning crew of the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Hamilton would muster for training, Star would also be the host unit of a considerable number of naval reserve elements, including the training facility for the Naval Health Services group in central Canada (by McMaster University) as well as King's Harbour Master Hamilton, which would control all maritime movement in eastern Lake Erie, western Lake Ontario...and most vital of all, the canal that connects them.
The Welland Ship Canal is a vital link in the whole "Highway H2O" marine network that connects Thunder Bay to the Atlantic Ocean...and, much to the delight of the Americans, now connects Duluth, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo with the Atlantic as well! Helping keep it operational and free of potential sabotage would be the responsibility of His Majesty's Canadian Ship Queenston, the flotilla's bilingual unit and the home naval unit for the regional municipality of Niagara. With headquarters at a new naval arsenal located near Fort George in downtown Niagara-on-the-Lake (across from Youngstown in New York), Queenston's first task would be to establish Fleet Maintenance Facility Niagara at the Port Weller Dry Docks located next to Lock One of the canal in Saint Catharines. As the only fully-functional construction facility in the Great Lakes region at the time of the Shift, it would be tasked immediately to new construction, getting steel from Hamilton's mills (and raw imports from across the border in Buffalo and beyond) to ultimately build nine Anticosti-class mine warfare vessels (HMC Ships Baffin, Manitoulin, Ellesmere, Tatluritit, Îles de la Madeleine, Bylot, Île Royale, Avalon and the replacement Glace Bay), two of the Sedna-class icebreaker patrol ships (HMC Ships Arnapkapfaaluk and Qailertetang), two of the third flight Halifax-class frigates (HMC Ships Hamilton and Burlington, of course), five of the Iroquois-class destroyers (HMC Ships Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora), the Saguenay-class helicopter frigate NCSM Niagara and the Chambly-class frigates HMC Ships Oakville and Saint Catharines. To aid in this, the Port Weller Naval Annex would have sub-annexes at Ramey's Bend in Port Colborne at the south end of the canal and Port Maitland near the mouth of the Grand River and the old feeder canal that provided extra water to the older versions of the Welland Canada; both these yards would be expanded by elements of 1 Construction Engineer Regiment and would be rented from International Marine Salvage Inc. To handle the massive intake of new personnel, Queenston would have divisions located at Port Weller to cover northern Niagara (Saint Catharines, Thorold and Lincoln), Welland to cover southern Niagara (Welland, Pelham, Port Colborne and Wainfleet) and Grimsby to cover western Niagara (Grimsby and West Lincoln); the home division at the Fort George Naval Annex would cover Niagara-on-the-Lake, Niagara Falls and Fort Erie. Of course, Queenston gets her name from the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812, which was the first repulsing of American invaders onto Canadian soil in that war; the name would have gone to one of the Navy's new replenishment ships until it was decided to name her NCSM Protecteur.
The unit assigned to provide the commissioning crew of HMC Ships Burlington and Oakville would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Thayendanegea, with headquarters and the like-named operational division located in Burlington across Hamilton Harbour from Star. Named in tribute to the legendary Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant ("Thayendanegea" was his native name), said unit would have divisions located in each of the four parts of the regional municipality of Halton: Burlington, Oakville, Milton and Halton Hills. Save for providing the two vital commissioning crews for two of the new construction soon to slip into the waters of the Great Lakes, Thayendanegea would serve as a general manning pool for Navy forces wherever needed.
The final operational unit of the flotilla would be the home navy unit for the regional municipality of Waterloo to Hamilton's northwest, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Conestonga. Located in the very heart of Canada's communications technical haven (Research In Motion, the company that created the BlackBerry series of smartphones, is based in the city of Waterloo itself), Conestoga revives the name of a World War Two IOTL stone frigate that was formed as the home of Canada's "Wrens", the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, from 1943-45...though in THIS incarnation, she wouldn't be based out of a girl's reform school, but a brand new naval arsenal built by 1 Construction Engineer Regiment on the shores of the Grand River. Atop the headquarters division and the operational division covering the city of Cambridge and North Dumfries in the southern part of Waterloo Region, Conestoga would have a division in Kitchener covering the region's largest city and the township of Wilmot to the west and a division in Waterloo covering that city and the northern townships of Wellesley and Woolwich. Atop providing commissioning crews for the ice-breaking submarine depot ship HMCS Johnson, the ice-breaking cable laying ship HMCS Aumanil and the naval health services support unit HMCS Barr, Conestoga would also provide one of the naval security teams for HMCS Brock (based out of Saint Catharines) and a fleet maintenance division for FMF Niagara; the latter unit would be tasked to prepare the core of the staff needed to outfit the ships being built at Port Weller, Port Colborne and Port Maitland with the highest tech available.
To link all the flotilla's units together would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Secord, based out of the Port Weller Annex in Saint Catharines, with supplementary radio sections at Brantford, Milton, Cambridge and Hamilton. She is named after Laura Secord, the true heroine of the Battle of Beaver Dams in 1813; it was Mrs. Secord's move to inform the British of a pending American attack that helped win the day for the Crown in an area close to Brock University today.
Assigned to the flotilla would be five underwater port security divisions covering Hamilton Harbour, both ends of the Welland Canal, the entrance to the Grand River and Oakville Harbour where Sixteen Mile Creek empties into Lake Ontario. Also, Star's internal band would be made an independent unit and become the Newark Band of the Gore Flotilla.
The only ship assigned directly to the flotilla would be NCSM Niagara...but with so many other ships being built at FMF Niagara...!
Next: The Naval Reserve on the north shore of Lake Ontario!
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Post by pyeknu on May 26, 2019 12:11:51 GMT
And now the formation that covers the northern shore of Lake Ontario...
MIDLAND FLOTILLA
Captain (Navy), Midland Flotilla/Headquarters, Sixteenth Maritime Operations Group (CAPT[N] MIDFLOT/HQ MOG SIXTEEN)
Headquarters - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Sydenham (HMCS SYDENHAM)
Headquarters Division - SYDENHAM, Ontario
Naval Radio Section Frontenac
Supplementary Radio Section Durham - AJAX, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Haliburton - MINDEN HILLS, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Hastings - MADOC, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Prince Edward - PICTON, Ontario
Supplementary Radio Section Victoria - LINDSAY, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Cataraqui (HMCS CATARAQUI)
Headquarters Division - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
Fort Frontenac Division
Addington Division - NEWBURG, Ontario
Frontenac County Division - SYDENHAM, Ontario
Frontenac Islands Division - MARYSVILLE (WOLFE ISLAND), Ontario
McNaughton Division - McNaughton Barracks, KINGSTON, Ontario
Napanee Division - GREATER NAPANEE, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Deseronto (HMCS DESERONTO)
Headquarters Division - BELLEVILLE, Ontario
South Hastings Division
Central Hastings Division - MADOC, Ontario
North Hastings Division - BANCROFT, Ontario
Prince Edward Division - PICTON, Ontario
Quinte West Division - TRENTON, Ontario
Tyendinaga Division - DESERONTO, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Newcastle (HMCS NEWCASTLE)
Headquarters Division - OSHAWA, Ontario
Central Durham Division
East Durham Division - NEWCASTLE, Ontario
North Durham Division - Water Street Military Annex and Naval Arsenal, SCUGOG (PORT PERRY), Ontario
North Victoria Division - BOBCAYGEON, Ontario
South Victoria Division - LINDSAY, Ontario
West Durham Division - AJAX, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Otonabee (HMCS OTONABEE)
Headquarters Division - PETERBOROUGH, Ontario
Peterborough Division
Central and East Peterborough Division - LAKEFIELD, Ontario
East Northumberland Division - BRIGHTON, Ontario
North Northumberland Division - CAMPBELLFORD, Ontario
North Peterborough and Haliburton Division - MINDEN HILLS, Ontario
South Peterborough Division - MILLBROOK, Ontario
West Northumberland Division - COBOURG, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Facility Oshawa (FMF OSHAWA)
Headquarters Division - OSHAWA, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Central Durham
Fleet Maintenance Division Frontenac - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Hastings - BELLEVILLE, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Northumberland - COBOURG, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division Peterborough - PETERBOROUGH, Ontario
Fleet Maintenance Division West Durham - AJAX, Ontario
King's Harbour Master Oshawa (KHM OSHAWA)
Headquarters Division - OSHAWA, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Durham
Harbour Support Division Kingston - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Lake Scugog - Water Street Military Annex and Naval Arsenal, SCUGOG (PORT PERRY), Ontario
Harbour Support Division Peterborough - PETERBOROUGH, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Port Hope - COBOURG, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Quinte - TRENTON, Ontario
Harbour Support Division Sturgeon Lake - BOBCAYGEON, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Kingston (UPSD KINGSTON)
Headquarters - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Oshawa (UPSD OSHAWA)
Headquarters - OSHAWA, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Peterborough (UPSD PETERBOROUGH)
Headquarters - PETERBOROUGH, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Port Hope (UPSD PORT HOPE)
Headquarters - COBOURG, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Quinte (UPSD QUINTE)
Headquarters - DESERONTO, Ontario
Underwater Port Security Division Victoria (UPSD VICTORIA)
Headquarters - LINDSAY, Ontario
Fort Frontenac Band of the Midland Flotilla (FT FRONTENAC BAND)
Headquarters - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Kingston (HMCS KINGSTON) (MM-700)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
Ship's Home Port (Summer) - Cataraqui Naval Arsenal, KINGSTON, Ontario
Ship's Home Port (Winter) - SYDNEY, Nova Scotia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Ellesmere (HMCS ELLESMERE) (MCMV-719)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - COBOURG, Ontario
Ship's Home Port - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Tatlurutit (HMCS TATLURUTIT) (MCMV-720)
Naval Reserve Augmentation Division - PETERBOROUGH, Ontario
Ship's Home Port - Whalley Naval Annex, SURREY, British Columbia
Covering from the east end of Toronto to the entrance of the Saint Lawrence River by Kingston, the Midland Flotilla would luck out tremendously by having three actual warships assigned to its direct control. However, because of the way the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessels would be divided between the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, the Midland Flotilla's ships would be deployed to both coasts, with the lead of the Kingston-class coastal patrol ships working with the former fleet while the two Anticosti-class ships would be assigned to the latter fleet; this would be somewhat common with several of the Ontario-based naval reserve flotillas. The flotilla's name hails also from pre-Confederation Upper Canada; the Midland District was the part of that colony that held the territory from the Trent River east to where the Rideau River emptied into the Ottawa River where downtown Ottawa stands today.
The formation's only pre-Shift naval reserve unit and its flagship is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Cataraqui, based out of an annex of Canadian Forces Base Kingston across Cataraqui Bay from the downtown section of Kingston itself. One of the original Naval Reserve units, Cataraqui would be given the right to recruit people directly from both the counties of Frontenac and Lennox and Addington; to support this, divisions would be located at Newburg, Sydenham, Napanee and on Wolfe Island between the mainland of Ontario and New York. Also, a division would be sited at the McNaughton Barracks side of CFB Kingston. This division would be dedicated to support both the base, the area's health services support unit, HMCS Malcolm Brown, and the headquarters of the regional fleet reconnaissance unit, HMCS Konwatsi'tsiaiénni; naturally, both those units would be tenders to Cataraqui before being commissioned.
The primary operational unit of the flotilla is located on the other side of the formation's catchment area, His Majesty's Canadian Ship Newcastle, based in Oshawa. Formed as a tender to HMCS York in Toronto, Newcastle would receive as her recruiting catchment area the regional municipality of Durham and the city of Kawartha Lakes (formerly the county of Victoria); to this end, divisions would be set up at Newcastle, Port Perry, Bobcageyon, Lindsay and Ajax. As well as recruiting and training personnel, Newcastle would be the host unit of both Fleet Maintenance Facility Oshawa and King's Harbour Master Oshawa. The former would just be a maintenance yard; actual construction would be sent to FMF York or FMF Niagara. The latter unit would be responsible for monitoring marine traffic not only on Lake Ontario from Toronto east to the entrance of the Saint Lawrence River, but the Trent-Severn Canal from Bobcageyon down to Trenton and the upper run of the Rideau Canal from Kingston to Upper Rideau Lake. Newcastle would get her name from the Newcastle District formed from the old Home/Nassau District in 1802. One of Newcastle's divisions would share quarters with a detached squadron of the Ontario Regiment (RCAC).
Recruiting from the independent city of Peterborough and the counties of Peterborough, Northumberland and Haliburton is His Majesty's Canadian Ship Otonabee, named in honour of the Otonabee River that forms part of the Trent-Severn Canal through this region. With headquarters naturally in Peterborough, she would have divisions based out of Lakefield, Brighton, Campbellford, Minden Mills, Millbrook and Cobourg. Primarily tasked to ensure the security of the Trent-Severn Canal, Otonabee would also provide the commissioning and later the naval reserve augmentation crews for the two Anticosti-class vessels that would be normally assigned to the Pacific Fleet; given the return of severe winter conditions after the Shift, the chances are well to the left of "nil" that HMC Ships Ellesmere and Tatlurutit would be able to voyage through the Northwest Passage to visit Lake Ontario, never mind how much of a waste of fuel such would be.
Finally covering the cities of Belleville and Quinte West, the county of Hastings and the municipality of Prince Edward County would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Deseronto, headquartered in Belleville itself. She would take her name from the Anglicization of "Odeserundiye", the name of a Mohawk warrior from the time of the Revolutionary War (given the English name "John Deseronto") who would help his people settle the Tyendinaga at the southeast corner of Hastings County on the Bay of Quinte. To allow for recruiting, Deseronto would establish divisions at Madoc, Bancroft, Picton (in Prince Edward County), Trenton (in Quinte West) and her namesake town itself. Of all the ships in the Midland Flotilla, Deseronto would have the widest of tasks; atop standard naval basic training and trades training, she would provide a naval reserve augmentation division to HMCS Wright (flagship of the Maritime Tactical Operations Flotilla as part of CANSOFCOM), serve as the host unit of the Acoustic Data Analysis Centre Quinte (part of HMCS Konwatsi'tsiaiénni) and muster the commissioning crew to the Chambly-class frigate HMCS Trentonian (to be built at FMF York). She would also be tasked to support all operations at 8 Wing Trenton.
The formations communications hub would be His Majesty's Canadian Ship Sydenham, located in the town of the same name in Lennox and Addington County. Named in honour of the first governor general of the united Province of Canada in the 1840s, Charles Poulett Thomson, the first Baron Sydenham, she would have supplementary radio sections located in Ajax, Minden Mills, Madoc, Picton and Lindsay. Given her close proximity to the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics at Vimy Barracks in CFB Kingston, Sydenham would serve as an auxiliary training unit for prospective members of the Forces' telecommunications specialists.
Also assigned to the flotilla would be six underwater port security divisions, covering the ports on Lake Ontario, the lower half of the Trent-Severn Canal and the upper end of the Rideau Canal. The Fort Frontenac Band of the Midland Flotilla would serve as the formation's musical team.
As mentioned above, the warships directly assigned to the flotilla would be the first of the Kingston-class coastal patrol ships and two of the Anticosti-class mine warfare vessels. HMCS Kingston would spend summers at her namesake city while wintering at FMF Protector in Sydney. HMC Ships Ellesmere and Tatlurutit would be permanently based at FMF Fraser's Whalley Annex in Surrey.
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