Last Day in Ottawa

Last Day in Ottawa, the week has gone by so quickly.

We decided to spend our last day out at Carp at the Diefenbunker Museum.

This was the bunker built during the cold war for a place for our Prime Minister, Governor General and Military officials to go in case of a nuclear situation

You enter the building by going into the long Blast tunnel and there in the middle you turn right, where you find the front doors. Everything was built to withstand a blast very close, so the doors were two feet thick weighing two tons.

Once you get through the two front doors you would be greeted at the reception desk, if you had been contaminated you and your cloths would go thru a cleaning process to see if you would even be allowed in.

I was very surpised at how tight of quarters they had. It is four floors deep with the cafeteria near the bottom, the bunker could hold just over 500 people and the cafeteria could feed 200 at one sitting.


It had a fully equipped medical center, dentistry etc. The Prime Ministers bed(which in the picture I tagged the Presidents bed) was just a single as he would not be allowed to bring his spouse.

This is part of the main Emergency Situation Room where they would follow what was happening around the country.

I also did not realize there were so many other bunkers in the making, although some did not get finished and almost all have now been sealed.



The bunker was a working place for thirty years even though they never had to use it for the emergency it was built for. We got to listen to a preprogrammed radio address that would go out to the nation if we were under attack, it was kinda spooky.

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Anyway that is all for Ottawa, we took the long way home this afternoon and took the 417 right through the city, I thought it was great but then I did not have to do the driving, Ron has been doing very good with navigation and we really only had the one blunder for the transit so pretty good all is all.