Today, we’re exploring what was at one time, the most expensive mansion in all of Canada.
Listed at nearly $40,000,000, this now vacant mansion comes with its own built in entirely self-sufficient emergency bunker.
The mansion, which was built by and lived in by a real estate developer who made his fortune in Canada building suburban homes, office towers and shopping malls is a 28,000 square foot french inspired chateau with 14 washrooms, 10 bedrooms, 7 wood burning fireplaces, a 50 foot indoor pool – and did I mention the bunker?
This massive mansion has been visited by prime ministers, Hollywood royalty, held extravagant parties and has been featured in several movies and television shows.
Join me as I explore and guide you through this massive abandoned mansion!
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In the basement, in a room with several identical doors, behind one of those doors is a huge metal door, several inches thick.
Beyond that door, down a few steps is a hallway, above your head are what appear to be water and oxygen tanks, a sharp left and a sharp right and through another thick steel reinforced door you enter a small room with a heater and air conditioned and a small room off to the right.
Continue straight and you enter another room full of water tanks, oxygen tanks, knobs, dials and more. A small room contains a generator connected to a car battery and some kind of exhaust or drain that heads deeper underground into another tunnel that heads farther beyond under the back yard.
I have been unable to find any information about this bunker and why it is there. I did learn that former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was good friends with the man who built the home. I do wonder if perhaps Mr Trudeau visited here often enough that it was deemed necessary to build him his own emergency bunker?