CFS Dana is about a military base in Saskatchewan, Canada. We'll be talking to the people who lived and worked there when it was open, and to the people who've gone back since it closed.
Colleen and Larry share their memories of Dana. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tanya766/message
Pete shares his memories of the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Brett shares his memories of living on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Bill shares his memories of living on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Benjamin shares his memories with living on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Paul shares his memories of working on the base --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Fred shares with us the work he has been doing with the Canadian Civil Defence Museum Association. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Mona, and her husband Terry, share their memories of living and working on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Barbara shares her memories of living on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
I found the answers in the book, What's in a Name: The Story Behind Saskatchewan Place Names (Expanded and Revised, Third Edition) by E.T. Russell. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Lynne shares her memories of living on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Patricia Brennan shares information about the upcoming RCAF Airwomen's Reunion. For more information about the event, check the RCAF Airwomen website: https://www.rcafairwomen.ca/R15_Information.php --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Diane Halabura (Schitka) shares her memories of the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Brian shares his memories of living and working on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Gord Young shares a memory about Dana. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Bill shares his memories of working and living on the base --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Ralph shares his memories of living and working on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Gertrude shares her memories of Dana. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Art shares his memories about working on various radar bases in Canada, and how they relate to the stories and memories from CFS Dana. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Dave shares his memories of working and living on the base --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Sarah talks about her memories of being in the military, the different bases she lived on along the Pinetree Line, and names of people who used to live in Dana who she is hoping to re-connect with. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
David talks about his association with CFS Dana and the town of Bruno. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Margaret Yanicki and Susanna Gray share their memories of living on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Jim shares his memories of living on the base. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tanya766/message
Author Paul Ozorak talks about his Canadian military history books, including: Abandoned Military Installations of Canada Volume 4: Western and Northern, in which he writes about many bases including CFS Dana.
Chuck shares his memories of living and working on the base.
Bernadette shares her memories of the base and the village of Dana. The podcast ends with a song of which she says, "This song is one I performed on Bruno Cherry Sunday August 8, 2021 in Bruno. It is an original song based on a poem my mother wrote, ”My Days”, in memory of her parents Peter and Helen Beckman. My mother requested this poem be read at her funeral (Mom died July 10, 2020). A couple of months later I added some lines and composed some music to it. Mother wrote for 70 plus years and was published at St. Peter's College Society magazine many times and performed her poem many times at The Society launch at St. Peter's College as well as other community events."
Diane shares her memories of living in the Hamlet of Dana and curling on the base. She chats about her husband, who helped build the base, and some stories about what it was like to see the base being opened and closed.
Anthony shares his memories of going to school on the base.
Pierre shares with us his memories of living and working on the base.
Angela shares her memories of when she lived on the base.
Ginny talks about the years she lived on the CFS Dana radar base.
Gale Rustulka MacAulay shares her memories of living on the Dana radar base.
Robert shares his memories of living and working on the base in CFS Dana.
Francois talks about his memories of living and working in Dana.
Doug shares stories about his association with the radar base Dana.
Rachel shares her memories of living in Dana
Carol shares her memories of living in Dana and working as a lifeguard on the base.
Allan shares his memories of living and working in Dana during part of the 60s and 70s.
Sharon shares her memories of Dana and working at the school.
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