HMCS Montcalm

General characteristics
The ship's badge of HMCS Montcalm (from DND).
Name:	HMCS Montcalm
Namesake:	Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Commissioned:	1954
Recommissioned:	1954
Motto:	Disponible pour servir (Available to serve)
Fate:	Active in service
Class & type:	Naval Reserve Division
Type:	Stone frigate
Complement:	150

Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Montcalm is a reserve unit of the Royal Canadian Navy based in Quebec City, Quebec. As with all Naval Reserve divisions, its approximately 150 sailors specialize in domestic emergency readiness, port inspection diving, naval intelligence, and the recruiting and retention of personnel who supplement the Royal Canadian Navy on board ship and at shore establishments.^[1]

Operations

HMCS Montcalm's personnel provide on-going augmentation to Royal Canadian Navy operations and exercises on ships and at shore establishments on a full- and part-time basis.

Domestically, HMCS Montcalm contributes assets in the form of personnel and equipment to aid to the civil power operations. In the past, these have included the 1995 G7 summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1997 Red River Flood, the 1998 Ice Storm, the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the 2011 floods on the Richelieu River in Quebec and throughout Manitoba.

Throughout the Cold War, HMCS Montcalm provided hundreds of trained augmentees in support of naval and joint operations, as well as to the Korean War and the First Gulf War. The unit also provided personnel to the Afghanistan war and subsequent training mission, and to numerous United Nations peacekeeping missions and NATO operations.

References

↑ History of HMCS Montcalm - http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/navres/units/navres_units-ships_e.asp?category=94&title=890

Canadian Forces bases and stations

Current

Army	CFB Borden CFB Edmonton CFB Gagetown CFB Kingston CFB Montreal Garrison Petawawa CFB Shilo CFB St. Hubert CFB Suffield CFB Valcartier CFB Wainwright 5 Cdn Div TC Detachment Aldershot 4 Cdn Div TC

Navy	CFB Esquimalt CFB Halifax CFS St. John's

Air Force	CFB Bagotville CFB Borden CFB Comox CFB Cold Lake CFB Gander CFB Goose Bay CFB Greenwood CFB Kingston CFB Moose Jaw CFB North Bay CFB Trenton CFD Mountain View CFB Winnipeg

All services	DND Headquarters CFS Alert CFS Leitrim CFNA HQ Whitehorse CFNA HQ Yellowknife

Defunct

Bases	CFB Calgary CFB Baden-Soellingen CFB Chatham CFB Chilliwack ASU Chilliwack CFB Clinton CFB Cornwallis CFB Downsview Denison Armoury CFB Griesbach CFB Lahr CFB London CFB Moncton CFB Ottawa CFB Penhold CFB Picton CFB Portage la Prairie CFB Rivers CFB Rockcliffe CFB Shearwater CFB St. Jean CFB Summerside CFB Toronto CFB Uplands CFB Winnipeg

Stations	CFS Aldergrove CFS Alsask CFS Armstrong CFS Baldy Hughes CFS Barrington CFS Beausejour CFS Beaverlodge CFS Bermuda CFS Carp CFS Chibougamau CFS Churchill CFS Cobourg CFS Coverdale CFS Dana CFS Debert CFS Falconbridge CFS Flin Flon CFS Foymount CFS Frobisher Bay CFS Gloucester CFS Gypsumville CFS Holberg CFS Kamloops RCAF Langar, UK CFS Ladner CFS Lac St. Denis CFS Lowther CFS Masset CFS Mill Cove CFS Moisie CFS Mont Apica CFS Moosonee RCAF North Luffenham, UK CFS Newport Corner CFS Ramore CFS Senneterre CFS Shelburne CFS Sioux Lookout CFS Sydney CFS Val-d'Or CFS Whitehorse CFS Yorkton

Temporary bases	Canada Dry One Canada Dry Two Camp Julien Camp Mirage

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HMCS Montcalm

Operations

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