Permanent Married Quarters Interpretive Panel
Municipality/Province: Chilliwack, BC
Memorial number: 59006-046
Type: Interpretive panel
Address: Cheamview Crescent
Location: At mail kiosk in Cheam Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 49.1105937 Long: -121.9656911
This interpretive panel was installed as part of the Garrison Crossing Legacy Walk.
Inscription found on memorial
[left column/colonne gauche]
GARRISON CROSSING
The Permanent Married Quarters
- All the comforts of home life
In 1946, Immediately following World War II, military families who were
stationed at Camp Chilliwack (later known as Canadian Forces Base
(CFB) Chilliwack) were delighted to move into brand new homes. These
Permanent Married Quarters - or "PMQs" - were a vast improvement
over the previous temporary accommodations. They now enjoyed the
luxury of oil furnaces, extra cupboard space, large yards and long
clotheslines! Over the years, 412 PMQs were built at CFB Chilliwack,
providing a safe home for thousands of serving soldiers and their
families. A supportive community and network of friends created a
neighbourhood where wives and children could feel that they were
part of a broader military family. Many of these historic homes have
been refurbished and still exist today, including all of these homes
around the park you are standing in, which were once occupied by
CFB Chilliwack officers and their families. This park, which was created
as part of the original plan for the Base, was preserved along with its
many large trees as part of the Garrison Crossing redevelopment. The
section of Cheamview Crescent encircling this park was kept to the
original width of the paved roads found throughout the "PMQ Patch".
It also has no curbs, gutters and sidewalks to commemorate how all
the streets on the site once looked and felt.
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Les logements militaires - tout le
confort d'un vrai foyer
En 1946, tout de suite après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, les families
des militaires staionnés au Camp Chilliwack (qui devient plus tard la
base des Forces canadienne (BFC) Chilliwack) ont emménagé avec
plaisir dans de nouveaux logements. Par rapport à leurs anciens
logements temporaires, les nouveaux logements militaires étalent une
grande amélioration, car ils étalent dotés de chaudières au mazout,
de grands placards et de belles cordes à linge!
Au fil des ans, 412 logements militaires on été construits à la BFC
Chilliwack, afin d'offrir un logement sécuritaire aux militaires en service
et à leurs familles. Une communauté chaleureause et un réseau d'amis
ont créé un quartier où les épouses et les enfants faisaient aussi partie
de la grande famile militaire. Beaucoup de ces maisons historiques
ont été rénovées et sont toujours sur les lieux, y compris toutes les
maisons qui entourent le park où vous vous trouvez et qui ont autrefois
été occupées par les families des officiers de la BFC Chilliwack. Le parc,
qui faisait partie du plan original de la base, a été conservé, de même
que les grands arbres qu'il abrite, dans le cadre du réaménagement
de Garrison Crossing. La partie du Croissant Cheamview qui entoure
le parc est de la même largeur que les chaussées du secteur des
logements militaires. Sans bordures, caniveaux ou trottoirs, la rue
nous rappelle l'aspect des rues qu'on trouvait autrefois sur le site.
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