closure in 1959. On May 15, 1961 the last American forces departed Pepperrell AFB when the United States Army Transportation Terminal Command Arctic closed its headquarters. On August 10, 1961 the American flag was lowered at Pepperrell AFB and the Union Jack and the Canadian Red Ensign were raised as the base property was transferred back to the Crown. The Government of Canada kept a small portion of the base for use as what is now CFS St. John's. The remainder was transferred to the Government of Newfoundland, which subsequently sold off and developed the remainder of the property. As a legacy to Newfoundland, and in honor of Dr. Charles Alberton Janeway, on August 9, 1966 the Janeway Children’s Hospital opened its doors in the building previously used by the United States Air Force as its on-base hospital. The old facility, with a bomb shelter in the basement, was slated for demolition in 2008. The former brick junior/senior high school building on the base, which hosted classes for the first time during the 1956–57 school year, later became a Children's Rehabilitation Center and, most recently, has been renovated and converted into condominiums. The base theater, located just inside the main gate, was torn down in 1984, and the old Base Hospital was demolished in the 2008 timeframe, with the fire station/Security Police facility and warehouse/vehicle maintenance facilities near the old main gate coming down in the past decade. While a number of the original buildings constructed in the early 1940s do still remain, including the old base gymnasium/bowling alley and NCO quarters area, a majority number have now been demolished. Sadly for those formerly associated with the base, demolition dramatically increased during the 2013-2017 timeframe, during which all of the original base facilities in the approximate west quarter of the base were torn down, including both the entire junior officers' quarters (400 block) and senior officers' quarters (500 block) areas, as well as the Officers Club and five other adjacent buildings collocated in its same block. See also Ernest Harmon Air Force Base Naval Station Argentia CFB Goose Bay Notes Gaines, William C., Coast Artillery Organizational History, 1917-1950, Coast Defense Journal, vol. 23, issue 2 Hiller, Ian and Neary, Peter (eds.) (1980). Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Essays in Interpretation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 66O2nd Air Base Wing. EHAFB Information Pamphlet. January 19, 1951. Pepperrell Air Force