On September 10, 1939, a week after the United Kingdom and France, Canada declared war on Germany over its invasion of Poland.<\/p>\n
The entry of Canada into the war led this country, a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, to try to protect its coasts against possible attacks. On the Pacific coast, several coastal artillery batteries<\/strong> were established in the Vancouver area, in the British Columbia. One of these positions was the Mary Hill Battery, built in 1939 on top of a mountain<\/strong> and whose mission was to protect the ports of Victoria and Esquimalt, for which it was equipped with two 152 mm Mk.7 cannons, to which a third was added in 1941<\/strong>, according to Harold A. Skaruup<\/a>.<\/p>\n After the war, the Canadian Army retained the battery as a training center. Finally, the battery was deactivated in 1956, being dismantled.<\/strong> Since then, both the position and the old wells that occupied its cannons have been abandoned. A few days ago, Abandoned Urbex Canada<\/a> published an interesting video exploring this battery:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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