This memorial is dedicated to the Naval Veterans and those who served at the Naval Radio Station CFF. It was erected on May 1, 1993 by the Naval Officers Association of Canada and Royal Canadian Naval Association Ottawa branches.
After its hasty construction in 1940, the building, operated as a high frequency radio communication station, providing a link between Canadian naval headquarters and ships at sea, allied naval headquarters and operational naval authorities that included Gibraltar, Bermuda and Sierra Leone.
The station personnel intercepted encrypted German, Italian and Russian military and diplomatic traffic. On one historic occasion, by intercepting messages between Royal Navy warships, they followed the naval action that culminated in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst, which had previously sunk H.M.S. Hood.
