Fire Command Post
In French: Poste de commandement du tir et chambre des cartes de la forteresse
Also known as Building No. 614 , Fire Command Post and Fortress Plotting Room
About Fire Command Post
Fire Command Post is one of 3 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings in Harrietsfield. Fire Command Post dates from 1942–1944. The register names Royal Canadian Corps of Engineers as its architect. 3 neighbours on the registers lie within 400 m.
Situated on Position Hill, the Fire Command Post, also known as the Fortress Plotting Room and Building 614, at the York Redoubt National Historic Site of Canada is an L-shaped, two-storey, flat roofed, concrete bunker-like building with a second component containing the Fortress Plotting Room situated deep underground. The building has a plain box like appearance featuring second-storey wrap-around ribbon windows with hinged steel shutters, which are fixed to the sills. Entry is by means of a doorway situated slightly below ground level on the south side. An identical window is situated directly below, at ground level. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Fire Command Post · Open Government Licence – Canada · quoted as the register has it
Federal heritage buildings are Classified or Recognized; Classified is the higher rank.
Make it a walk: 3 historic places in about 10 minutes
Harrietsfield · about 300 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Fire Command PostStart here
- 2BatteryClassified Federal Heritage Building · 200 m on
- 3Main Magazine, Building 611Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 200 m on
3 within 300 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Questions about Fire Command Post
When was Fire Command Post built?
Fire Command Post went up in 1942–1944, by its record.
Is Fire Command Post protected?
As a Classified federal building, any work on it needs the federal heritage review’s advice while Canada owns it.
What is Fire Command Post?
Fire Command Post has been a Classified Federal Heritage Building since 1996.
Can you visit Fire Command Post?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
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Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).