Every once and a while it seems the much circulating Prince Rumour mill hits one, a while back it was floated around town that the Navy was planning on setting up a naval base in the city. It was a little nugget that many quickly dismissed as a rather far off option and not something to get too excited about.
But as it turns out there was a bit of fire with all of that smoke, and while it’s not quite Esquimalt North, in a military planning paper called Canada First Defence Strategy there is a plan mentioned to set up a new “naval reserve divisionâ€