General Canadian Discussions - The New Canadian Preppers Network Forum

Nova Scotia - Real underground bunker

Robvann — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:36:48 +0000

I see that the famous WWII DiefenBunker in Debert, Nova Scotia (near Truro), now seems to have plans to become a modern day VIP underground bunker in 2026.

The vision on their website at removed link ">The Diefenbaker is quite impressive, but clearly based on a template. The phone number is fake from a generic template, the social media links don't work, and the terms and conditions are still in template form.

Has anyone contacted them, or know anything about it? There was a bit of reddit chatter a few months ago about it.

Canadian Storm Shelters

denob — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:38:57 +0000

OK folks, I've been asked about a Canadian supplier of storm shelters. Something that could also be used as a root cellar. Preferably an eastern based company as the request comes from an Ontario based prepper.

Any suggestions?

Moving With Preps

denob — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:02:30 +0000

Well, the plunge is being taken. Not a huge property, but further out from the city and a bit bigger house (kids are gonna be teens soon). The land is also flat instead of our current house being on the side of a mountain.

So here's the ask...how have those of you that moved as a prepper pulled it off?

Looking at moving about 1 year from now.

Can Anyone Else Access The Canadian Preppers Open Discussion

thecrownsown — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:08:49 +0000

http://www.canadianpreppersnetwork.net/

I cannot access this site. Not with my IPN access. But when I try and register it wont let me.

Anyone else having issues.

Lockdown Entertainment

peppercorn — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 03:08:20 +0000

With many places back in lock down. Here are some rather good series that should keep people from getting bored.

The history of Rome series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKYIV5zy14 bump speed to 1.25 or 1.5

This is the fall of civilizations series.

This link takes you to a two part series on the Aztecs, just outstanding, the start is slow but worth watching, things pick up after the first 1/2 hour. bump speed up to 1.5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JVdpWCKeM

And for humor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7DCeFuw99I bump speed to 1.25

Business idea: survivalist real estate

edibleforestguy — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:15:03 +0000

There is NO Canadian real estate site devoted to listing survivalist properties. Yet there are numerous such sites in the USA. Hmmm ... there must be an untapped market.

No shortages?

peppercorn — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:21:33 +0000

Was at a Food for less and Walmart in a smaller community south of Edmonton. Both well stocked, both very well organised! In fact so well stocked that I found large bags of powdered milk, a product I haven't seen in 4-5 weeks or so. I didn't need some but like a conditioned reflex I found myself buying 3 large bags anyway. Something about scarcity triggers a buying response. The cheap large bags of rice were few in stock but there, the cheaper eggs were not available, and the range of flour on the shelves that you would normally see was less but overall it was a impressive turn around from a week or so. I heard a radio program where they were speaking with managers from some of the chain stores and they were saying even with limiting the amounts a person could buy sales were still up about 50 %.
I haven't been to the big city in weeks but I am hearing from friends that the stores there have inventory again. Costco is apparently limiting the number of people in the store at one time, but they too had full inventory again, from what I have heard for friends.
This is only a little snap shot of Alberta, things may be different where you are.

Edit: Security was present at the stores now. Often just one guy.

Some Interesting "Prepper" Movies On Netflix Canada Out of Quebec

thecrownsown — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:47:16 +0000

The first is called "Ravenous."
https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80218656

The second is called "The Decline."
https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81013927

Both very different fables, the first about a zombie apocalypse, the second about a group coming together to train as a collective. Both in french with English subtitles. They are not conventional prepper movies. If you're looking for the typical formula, neither movies are those. But very entertaining and with that Quebec/European flare.

Canned Food After Freeze/Thaw Cycle

denob — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:34:06 +0000

I can't help but think of that annoying song from my childhood...found a peanut. You know where someone finds a rotten peanut, but eats it anyways, gets a tummy ache, goes to doctor, dies anyways...c'mon, you know the one!

So, we replaced all the canned food at one of the BOL's this fall. These cans had been there for a full year, maybe some of them for two. They were coming up on their expiry dates and we wanted to rotate them. Not wanting to be wasteful, we went ahead and put all these cans at the front of our home rotation. Every one of these cans had been frozen and thawed at least one winter, some of them two.

Veggies and meat products (tuna, canned ham, etc.) were fine. No difference could be detected in appearance or taste. Condensed soups however were a different story. When the cans were opened, there was a skin that had formed on top. This was simply peeled off and discarded. The texture was really interesting to say the least. Tomato soup was particularly "different". Instead of coming out in a thick goopey sludge as expected, it came out in one gelatenous plop, kind of like canned cranberry sauce. While this made it more difficult to disolve in the water, it did end up looking like tomato soup in the end and although it had a bit of an off taste (nothing that would keep me from eating it) no ill effects were detected.

So, for anyone looking to stock some canned goods in an unheated BOL, I say go for it. There might be some interesting textures in some items, but for the most part, still good. Well, good enough to eat if you're hungry that is....

Water Filters For House Water

thecrownsown — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:11:18 +0000

Anyone have any thoughts, input on water filtration for homes? Specifically homes on municipal services?

In the wake of things like Walkteron, and boil water advisories...having that backup is kind of nice. Don't get me wrong, we have some of the greatest water in the world and its treated well...but mistakes do happen, and during prolonged catastrophes even municipal water can become suspect.

Presently, i have a filter, but mainly for smaller particulate and metals. But I'd like to have a system where it could make water safe if compromised on the Municipalities side. And have it running and in place consistently now. Should I go with a simple carbon and UV light? brands, models? Or does anyone have any different ideas? UV wont do me a heck of a lot of good in a power outage...perhaps there are other better filter systems? I dont think Berkey's are a cost efficient way to hook upto your home water source...but i'm looking for something reasonable and practical.

Any help appreciated.