Diefenbunker, Carp, Ontario

The four-storey underground fully-equipped Cold War city is worth the half-hour car ride from downtown Ottawa. Visitors can book a guided tour - ours lasted two hours and ten minutes or meander through themselves. The cost is the same.

The underground city was hidden. You access the Diefenbunker through the door in this non-descript grey building inside the fence. 

The Diefenbunker main entrance tunnel. An emergency exit tunnel was camouflaged in the grassy knoll behind the grey building.

Cafeteria mural

Photo of Alberta's Bow River on cafeteria wall meant to left spirits in the windowless bunker.

Visitors invited to try out rotary dial phones in the communications room.

Who to call when your city has evaporated??

Rotary-dial phones novel for younger visitors.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker's designated bedroom. Note: Diefenbaker never did visit the Diefenbunker. 

Corridors were painted with vertical stripes to give the impression they were wider.

The Diefenbunker had fully-equipped doctor's, dentist's and psych wards. 

Construction in 

This is the aerial photograph taken by a journalist who dubbed the complex the Diefenbunker. 

Every government department had an office in the Diefenbunker.