CFS Debert, Military museum in Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada

CFS Debert is a former Canadian Forces station in Debert, Nova Scotia, with a long asphalt runway marked by white stripes, a painted number 16 and a solid white arrow, set amid flat fields. The site also held an army training and marshalling camp and a Cold War communications facility with a Regional Emergency Government Headquarters bunker.

The site opened in 1940 as a Canadian Forces training facility and grew into a major military hub in the region during World War II. It remained active through the Cold War decades, serving different military purposes over time.

Debert's growth is part of the site's story: during the camp's construction, movie houses, restaurants and bars opened in the community, and the economic effects reached neighbouring Truro. At one point the camp housed more troops than Truro's population. The flat plain by Debert Station, on the Montreal-Halifax main line, was chosen partly for its position 100 km north of Halifax.

The site lies on the flat plain beside Debert Station on the Montreal-Halifax main line, about 100 km north of Halifax. The airfield and most camp buildings passed to the Nova Scotia government in the 1970s and now form the Debert Air Industrial Park; the former REGH bunker area became Colchester Park. Expect paved surfaces and scattered wartime structures rather than a curated display route.

The site was chosen partly because it lay on the Montreal-Halifax main line of Canadian National Railways, about 100 km north of Halifax, so troops could be moved by train to the troopships at night under black-out conditions. The flat plain around Debert Station had already been bought by the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1938 for an aerodrome.