Debert, Nova Scotia
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Debert is an unincorporated farming community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located approximately 20 km west of the town of Truro.
Situated near coal and iron ore deposits, Debert was placed on the Halifax-Montreal mainline of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada in the 1870s.
During the Second World War Debert was the location of Camp Debert, a large army training facility, and RCAF Station Debert, a BCATP training facility. In 1971 the aerodrome and training facilities were declared surplus and were purchased by the provincial government to create the "Debert Air Industrial Park" as well as a municipal airfield.
During the Cold War in the 1960s, the remaining Debert military facilities were transformed with the construction of a communications and emergency government headquarters, also known informally as a Diefenbunker. CFS Debert was closed in the mid-1990s and decommissioned in 1998 with remaining facilities being transferred to a local development authority named "Colchester Park".