Debert is an unincorporated farming community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located approximately 20 km west of the town of Truro. Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area {{{TotalArea}}} km² (12th)  - Land 53,338 km²  - Water 1,946 km² (3. ... One of Truros tree sculptures Truro (2001 population 11,457; urban area population 44,276) is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. ...

Situated near coal and iron ore deposits, Debert was established on the Halifax-Montreal mainline of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada in the 1870s. {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) City Symbol: Kingfisher Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada Location. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC or ICR), also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway, was a historic Canadian railway. ... Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ...

During the Second World War Debert was the location of Camp Debert, a large army training facility, and RCAF Station Debert, a BCATP training facility. The Camp was built beginning in late 1940 to accomodate more than 40,000 men during their training, prior to being sent overseas. The 3rd Canadian Division, which led the way onto Juno Beach during the Normandy Landings on 6 June 1944, was among the first of several Canadian Army Divisions to be formed at Camp Debert. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... External links The Canadian Contribution (includes newspaper archives) World War II Newspaper Archives — The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. ...

For a brief period shortly after the war, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College operated out of the old Camp Debert Hospital. The temporary relocation of the College was a result of a major fire that had occured at the principal campus in Truro, which destroyed many of the barns and facilities of the College. Demobilization brought about many other changes at Camp Debert with many of the barrack buildings and workshops being torn down. A great deal of the recovered material was reused to help construct numerous new homes in the nearby village of Debert and throughout Colchester County. Throughout the 1950's, 1960's and into the 1970's much of the original Camp's training area was gradually sold off as surplus. A large proportion of it now forms the Debert Air Industrial Park. Visitors hiking along the many trails throughout the restored forest of the Industrial Park can still find several old building foundations and ruins of the wartime activity at Debert.

During the Cold War in the 1960s, the remaining Debert military facilities were transformed with the construction of a communications and emergency government headquarters, also known informally as a Diefenbunker. The principal military resident during this time was 720 Communications Squadron, which maintained the Regional Emergency Headquarters and provided communications support to the Canadian Forces throughout Atlantic Canada and around the world. Substantial antenna facilities were constructed close to the nearby villages Masstown and Great Village to support the military operations at CFS Debert, providing world-wide radio frequency communications. These antenna sites remain actively used by today's Canadian Forces. The Cold War was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. ... A Diefenbunker is the nickname Canadian federal opposition politicians of the early 1960s coined for seven nuclear fallout shelters built across the country at the height of the Cold War during the infancy of the ICBM threat. ...

In 1971 the aerodrome and training facilities were declared surplus and were purchased by the provincial government to create the "Debert Air Industrial Park" as well as a municipal airfield. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...

CFS Debert was closed in the mid-1990s and decommissioned in 1998 with remaining site facilities being transferred to a local development authority named "Colchester Park". The ongoing residual military communications role of Debert was transferred to a much smaller facility near Great Village, NS. Canadian Forces Station Debert (also CFS Debert) was the location of a Canadian air force, army, and military communications facility in Debert, Nova Scotia. ... Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

In 1994, a significant paleo-indian site was discovered on the grounds of the old Camp by a private contractor who was preparing a plot of land to be used as a tree farm. Researchers from St Mary's University in Halifax were called in to conduct a thorough archeological excavation on the site. Preliminary reports suggested that the site held evidence of human activity that pre-dated any other sites found within the Cobequid Region.