"It was supposed to keep them safe and allow them to run the government from a centralized location," McLennan said.
Photos on a website devoted to urban exploration show the inside of the bunker, which had detailed radiological defence maps, and also showed the locations of other bomb shelters in the area. "The idea was that the regional chair, the mayor of the cities of the towns, the chief medical officer, people like that, would seek shelter in the bunker and would still be able to communicate with other bunkers that were set up in other municipalities," said Stacey McLennan of the Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum.
MEGHQ stands for Municipal Emergency Government Headquarters. Construction of MEGHQ - FREEPORT was completed in 1966.
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