This Abandoned Military Fort Is Now Canada

At Fort Macaulay, you'll find original batteries, outbuildings, and other structures once manned by Canadian soldiers at Macaulay Point Park. For 78 years, the battlements of Fort Macaulay defended the southeastern shores of Vancouver Island. Generations of servicemen stood watch there, looking out for foreign navies that might have decided to attack the western fringe of Canada. The post was active from 1878 to 1956, although staff were likely on their highest guard around the time the site was first built, since tensions between the British Empire and Czarist Russia were notably high in the late 19th century. However, throughout its entire history, Fort Macaulay was never once attacked.