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Canada
The barracks were used to house troops in forts during the Upper Canada Period. Before and during the War of 1812, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe and Major General Isaac Brock oversaw the construction of Fort York on the shores of Lake Ontario in present-day Toronto. There are several surviving British Army barracks built between 1814 and 1815 on that site today. Several limestone barracks were built half a mile west of Fort York in 1840, only one of which survives. The British Army surrendered "New Fort York", as the second fort was called, to the Canadian Militia) in 1870 after Canadian Confederation.[8].
The Stone Frigate, completed in 1820, served as a barracks briefly in 1837-1838, and was refitted as a dormitory and classrooms to house the Royal Military College of Canada by 1876. The Stone Frigate is a large stone building originally designed to house equipment and rigging from British warships dismantled to comply with the Rush-Bagot Treaty.
USA
While in basic training and sometimes continuation training, military personnel live in barracks. The United States Marine Corps, as well as the Air Force (except for officer trainees), have basic training units separated by gender. This differs from the US Army, Coast Guard and Navy, where male and female recruits train and share barracks during basic period, but are separated during personal time and at lights out. However, all branches of the military integrate male and female members after boot camp and first assignment.
The trend today in the United States military is to contain only low-ranking enlisted bachelors in barracks unless required for reasons of military necessity. Single noncommissioned officers and senior enlisted juniors are generally expected to find off-base accommodation. Those residing in barracks now generally enjoy individual rooms according to US Department of Defense guidelines. The Marine Corps is often the exception to this practice.
Spain
Some of the buildings that have been used or are used as barracks by the Spanish army throughout history are:
France
Until the middle of the century, soldiers in the French army usually lived with the inhabitants of their garrison town. Little by little, given the difficulties that this system entailed, the municipalities reserved a neighborhood of the city with a certain number of houses for the troops to live. This is what was called "quartering the troops" or "quartering them." This system was always inadequate to accommodate large numbers of soldiers. Cities began converting empty barns and buildings into barracks and eventually constructing buildings to house troops.[9].
The first barracks were built under the reign of Louis XIV. By royal order of December 3, 1691, barracks were built to house the Gardes-Françaises.[10].
At the beginning of the century (around 1820), French territory had enough barracks to house all the troops.
Poland
In Poland, barracks are usually represented as a complex of buildings, each of which consists of a separate entity or administrative or commercial premises. As an example, the Barracks Complex in Września").
Portugal
Each of the Portuguese Army bases is known as a "quartel" (barracks). In a barracks, each of the dormitory buildings is called a caserna. The majority are regimental barracks, constituting the fixed component of the Army force system and being responsible for training, sustenance and general support to the Army. In addition to the administrative, logistical and training bodies of the regiment, each barracks can house one or more operational units (operational battalions, independent companies or equivalent units). Although there are housing blocks within the perimeter of some regimental barracks, the usual Portuguese practice is for members of the Armed Forces to live outside military bases with their families, embedded in local civilian communities.
Many of the Portuguese regiment barracks are of a model developed by the former Administrative Commission for the New Infrastructures of the Armed Forces (CANIFA). For this reason, they are commonly called "CANIFA-type Barracks". This type of barracks was built in the 1950s and 1960s, following a standardized architectural model, usually with an area of between 100,000 and 200,000 square meters, including a headquarters building, a guardhouse, a general dining room, an infirmary building, a workshop and a garage building, a house building for officers, a house building for sergeants, three to ten rank and file barracks, shooting ranges and sports facilities. On average, each CANIFA-type barracks was intended to house around 1,000 soldiers and their respective weapons, vehicles and other equipment.
United Kingdom
Over the centuries there have been concerns about the idea of a standing army housed in barracks; instead, the law provided for troops to be routinely "billed" in small groups at inns and other locations.[11] (Concerns were varied: political, ideological and constitutional, sparked by memories of Cromwell's New Model Army and the use of troops in the reign of James II to intimidate areas of civil society. Furthermore, large urban barracks were associated with absolutist monarchies, where they could be seen as an emblem of power sustained through military might, and there was a constant suspicion that gathering soldiers in barracks could encourage sedition).[5].
However, some "soldiers' quarters" were built in Britain at this time, usually attached to coastal fortifications or royal palaces. The first recorded use of the word 'barracks' in this context was for the Irish barracks, built in the precincts of the Tower of London in 1669. At the Ordnance Office (responsible for the construction and maintenance of barracks) Bernard de Gomme played a key role in the development of a 'domestic' style of barracks design in the second half of the century: he provided barracks blocks for places such as Plymouth Citadel and Tilbury. Fort"), each with rows of square rooms arranged in pairs on two floors, accommodating a Company&action=edit&redlink=1 "Company (military unit) (not yet redacted)") of about sixty men, four per room, two per bed. Standard furniture was provided and each room had a grate which was used for heating and cooking.[5].