Does anyone have a map showing the streets of the PMQs that were torn down.
1960 - 1967 (76 Bedford )

Hahaha. I always remember that. The parents were told to shut the Windows while the kids ran behind the truck! Mind you that was the time smoking in cars and no seat belts. Amazing we survived. I was in CFB Mont Apica where the black flies were brutal! I doubt the foggers helped though. Maybe for a few minutes LOL.

We were based at Cold Lake between 1955 and 1958 and I clearly remember the aerial fogging, but my older brother, John, told me that they used an old B-25.

Hi David. Library & Archives Canada gave me over 3,000 pages of the Canadian Armed Forces DDT program for the 1960s and CFB Cold Lake was using a Dakota for their spraying. The Surgeon General approved the bases for spraying by airplanes or vehicle spraying but some of the Air Force stations got around this policy by paying for the air operation out of base funds. Their were even back then concerns of using pesticides indoors (schools, mess halls, hospitals) but not much action, if any, went to monitoring this and certainly no follow up.

Ralph,

Thanks for the info. I will speak sternly to my brother for misleading me. Not by the way, some years ago I had to do some research for a small documentary on Canadians who flew in the Battle of Britain. The National Archives were and are a fantastic resource and more to the point, were very helpful. Cool that you got all that stuff from them. You were a Brat, I take it. What bases and when?

Hi David. My father was RCAF (Marine Section) and we were at Trenton right after the war until 1956 when we moved to Comox. I got interested in the military and DDT by way of other health issues. If your body's defenses are damaged in infancy then in later life you can expect harder than average damage if exposed to other sources of contamination. Yes Library and Archives Canada are great but I feel much of the national embarrassing records have been recently destroyed between 2006 and 2016.

Several members of our family have serious health issues. We were in Chatham and Bagotville in the late 50's early 60's. Makes you wonder.

I remember playing tag in the cloud from the fogger at CFB Petawawa in the early 1970s. Anyone know when they stopped the fogging program?