The EmGovSitCen was composed of two civil assessment areas and a closed circuit TV control console:

An Infrastructure Assessment room (including monitoring the state of road, rail and air transportation systems, food stocks, telecommunication networks, ports and harbours, housing, hospitals and medical support systems, law & order, industrial production, agriculture, energy sources, etc.).

A Casualty & Damage Assessment room for tracking the impact on the civil populace of direct attacks on targets within Canada had occurred as well as the effects of the widespread fallout that would have taken place as the result of massive attacks on the multitude of strategic missile fields in the Midwest of the US.

EPC Manual for Assessing Casualty and Damage Information (June 8, 1987 – Emergency Preparedness Canada)

Emgovsitcen staff would regularly provide briefings to Cabinet using the closed circuit TV system. This is the Briefing Format that was followed by the Briefing Officer during the CCTV briefings to the War Cabinet and selected other location in the CEGHQ.

Brief Job Descriptions of the Staff of the EmGovSitCen at the CEGHQ

Operating the Closed Circuit TV Briefing System in the late 1980s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key Series of Exercises late 1988

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SitCen Manager

  • manages the overall functioning of the EmGovSitCen,
  • liaises between the Federal Warning Centre, the War Cabinet and departments/agencies to ensure that pertinent information is being collected, collated and disseminated in an timely, accurate and effective manner,
  • job shares and backs up the Snr Ops Officer

Snr Ops Offr

  • runs the day-to-day operations of the EmGovSitCen (reception, plotting, analysis of casualty & damage and infrastructure damage and impact information),
  • prepares and gives periodic and special situational briefings over the closed circuit TV system (and face-to-face with senior officials) as required,
  • job shares and backs up the SitCen Manager

Snr Radiation Science Offr

  • oversees the collection and analysis of NUDET information messages from NORAD HQs
  • supervises the work of the DND NBC Analyst and the Civil CasDam Analyst
  • prepares subject related special briefings for senior civil officials

DND NBC Analyst

  • analyses incoming NUDET messages and directs NUDET plots and the preparation of fallout patterns and has Map Plotter plot the results on the appropriate wall maps, and display boards ( the NUDET map, the predicted and actual fallout maps),
  • calculates the damage and casualty rings for specified targets,
  • supports the work of the Civil CasDam Analyst

Dave Peters briefs Jeff Hutcheson of CTV’s Canada AM in 2008 in the Diefenbunker Museum’s Reconstructed EmGovSitCen about how the fallout patterns were calculated, then plotted and used by the Federal Warning Centre to inform Canadians about danger areas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civil CasDam Analyst

  • based on the damage and casualty rings and using appropriate methodology, calculates casualty numbers and rough damage estimates for specified targets (and for the country as a whole),
  • has the Map Plotter plot the results on the appropriate wall (city) maps, and display boards
  • supports the work of the DND NBC Analyst

Snr Infrastructure Reports Offr

  • ensures that the departments and agencies understand the CasDam and other situational information being passed to them and that they analyse and report back the impact of the attack in their respective areas of responsibility to the EmGovSitCen in a timely and accurate manner,
  • analyses and summarizes results of the various departments and agencies attack-impact reports for use in the Senior Operations Officer’s situational briefings,
  • supervises the Civil Reports Compiler

Civil Reports Compiler

  • consolidates and summarizes results of the various departments and agencies attack-impact reports and briefs the results to the Snr Infrastructure Officer,
  • recommends significant events and situations in the incoming reports for further analysis and highlighting in the situation report briefings,
  • supports and backs up the Snr Infrastructure Officer

Map Plotter

  • plots whatever information provided by other members of the EmGovSitCen as required in an accurate and timely manner,
  • supports and backs up the Secretary/Admin Assistant

Secretary/Admin Assistant

  • provides typing, information retrieval, filing and message preparation services to the staff of the EmGovSitCen as required,
  • supports and backs up the Map Plotter

Reconstructed EmGovSitCen – Cdn War Museum has the NORAD Map that would have been in the display to the Left but they won’t return it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NUDET Map as it was before it was removed and archived in the War Museum.