Coastal Defence Guns

[Bob Carriere]

Yes they are........ small display but very impressive. Not well advertised and as usual played down.

I never realized that the Gaspe basin was intended to be used as a back up refuge for the Royal Navy fleet should England be invaded..... shared with Halifax Bedford basin.

They had anti submarine steel nets controlling access to the basin..... a seaplane base....... saddely most of the original installations have been leveled for urban development.

ships coming in had to stop in a holding area, well within range of the shore guns, ships IDed, searched and cleared for entrance in the basin. Even local folks remember very little of that period.

Bob