Where were some of the places the Canadian military did weapons R&D during the wars?

Pblatzz said:
They are still there, changed their name to Crompton, then to Chemtura. Same plant, same toxins (which are stored in a covered stage area on Church St next to the cemetery). The upper aquifer is polluted,... still, they say they are cleaning it up but it will take time. The Deep aquafer is very polluted and will not be able to be cleaned up. If you didn't' know, the aquifers are so polluted water is piped in to supply Elmira & area. What bites, is the pollution is heading south and will hit Guelph within then next few years...They have also just come out of bankruptcy protection so if they fail it's out tax dollars that will pay..

And I believe the police were there to keep collectors off of the property. See it's built on an old town dump site full of rare glass bottles..
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I worked there for a week as a contractor in Nov 07, I got to learn lots about the history about the place. They go through some of the history of the plant during your orientation , they do mention about the different "agent" products made on contract for the U.S government. But not very much, th eplant used to make boots during the 1900 and into the 20s, some for the war effort. You learn more talking to the employees, than company officals. Its probably been on of the scariest places I`ve every worked at. What even worse is the river flows between the plant and the "long term storage area" . Cafeteria
had good soup tho.
 
CML said:
I worked there for a week as a contractor in Nov 07, I got to learn lots about the history about the place. They go through some of the history of the plant during your orientation , they do mention about the different "agent" products made on contract for the U.S government. But not very much, th eplant used to make boots during the 1900 and into the 20s, some for the war effort. You learn more talking to the employees, than company officals. Its probably been on of the scariest places I`ve every worked at. What even worse is the river flows between the plant and the "long term storage area" . Cafeteria
had good soup tho.
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Ummm, I remember the soup.... Special agent flavor. ;)

Oh wait, did they tell you about the fish kills down river......... or the floaters in the river.............:puke:
 
plinker 777 said:
Travis; Can you go into the "Japanese unit 731 experiments"? I've never heard of this before.....I'll google as well:D

WOW....I'm regretting seeing that,wish I could go back about an hour when I had no idea....somethings should never be:(
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Aye. There is a book called A Plague Upon Humanity. I can't recall the author now but it's the definitive work on unit 731. I had no idea humanity could stoop to such depraved levels. It's probably one of the most disturbing things I've ever read. But it's important that the history is known.
What is really surprising is that it ISN'T that well known. Prior to that book there were very few timeline histories of the unit and very little public knowledge. The Nazi doctors paled in comparison to some of the things that went on under their germ/bio warfare campaign.
It's a hard read. The worst part is that in the end, the majority of the leading members who spearheaded the whole sick thing got off scott free and escaped trial and conviction after the Americans scooped them up to get their accumulative knowledge ala Nazi rocket scientists etc. There are even allegations that a few years after during the Korean war the Americans used an almost exact replica of a plague infected flea bomb on a village in Korea.
The Soviets knew of the operations the Japanese had undertook and actualy had a trial and a few sentences but that was the extent of any justice ever metered out.
Sickening.....
 
Travis; I'm an avid reader,and thanks for the reference,but I'll pass bud. It is an important lesson that should be read to fully understand.....I just don't think I want to. {understand that is}
I will rest assured that no man can do those things to another and really get away with it! They may bypass our laws and judgements,but they still have to live with themselves knowing/reliving what they have done.Makes me sick to think about it,so I won't! {uh...think about it that is:p}
 
gaff said:
OSE had a camp in Whitby ON. the goverment found out after the war.
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You mean Camp X? The people who needed to know about it during the war did.:)
That was more comando/infiltration training, not so much weapons research.
 
the cleanup of CFB Calgary, I was a heavy equipment operator , every thing in the impact area had to be removed . A lot of the ordanance removed was identified as experimental. in the old days ,if it was't used they buried it. there is no other feeling like having 80 year old HIGH EXPLOSIVE artillery shells falling out of your backhoe bucket.
 
There's also the pykrete experiments in Jasper. Too bad it never ended up being used.

http://w ww.combinedops.com/Pykrete.htm
 
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