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Below and on the following pages you'll find a collection of photos through the years...
Cadets on Inspection, 1956. Note the concrete block H-Huts (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)
Major Young, 1956. Major Young' was born at Toronto Ontario, and educated at the Grove School, Lakefield Ontario where he matriculated. Prior to the war he was in business 12 years. enlisting in the Militia in 1936. In 1939 he joined the Royal Regiment of Canada. serving in Iceland. the U.K. and North West Europe. Throughout action he was Second in Command of the Regiment and later in Command of No. 11 Canadian Reinforcement Unit. He was demobilized in 1945 on VJ Day and returned to business life. In 1949 he rejoined the Army and was appointed to the Regular Army in 1951 as DAAG (Manning) at Central Command. In 1954 he was appointed Military Component of the Canadian delegation to International Committee in IndoChina. On his return to Canada he was appointed GSO II Cadets at H.Q. Prairie Command which appointment he still holds. (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)
Major F. E. Kendrick. ED, 1956. RCASC. was born at Ottawa, Ontario. in 1917. He was educated at Ottawa and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and graduated from the University of Alberta at Edmonton in 1941. Enlisting as a Private in the RCASC in 1941. he was appointed to commissioned rank in 1942. He has served continuously since 1941 in Canada and Overseas. Since 1945 he has served in a variety of staff and regimental appointments in Canada and the Far East. He graduated from the Canadian Army Staff College in 1951. Major Kendrick is married and has two children. He is currently stationed at Area Headquarters. Regina. where he is the Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)
Camp Entrance, 1956 (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)
1956 (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)
1956 (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)
Lord Strathcona Tent, 1956. A high point in the Cadet's summer at Dundurn is the week he spends under canvas. During the warmest part of the summer groups of about two hundred cadets at a time are taken out to Lord Strathcona Camp for a week. The camp. which was opened up three years ago and named after a great benefactor of the cadet movement, is about six miles West of the main camp and is connected with it by a good road. It is about three miles East of the South Saskatchewan River and nestles at the foot of a sharp drop in the countryside which is probably an ancient bank of the river. It is made up entirely of tents, except for the old ranch house around which the tents are ranged. Above the bank the country is fairly open, except for clumps of poplars and groves of pines which are the result of attempts at reforestation some years ago. Unusual wild flowers are found, including at least two types of flowering cactus. Occasionally a fortunate cadet will catch sight of a deer. A central feature of Tented City (as it is known to the cadets) is the cool sparkling spring water which flows from the side of the bank. is pumped up hill to a water tank and fed by gravity to the kitchens. ablution tables and shower baths. When left standing in the tank for awhile in the heat of the day, it provides a stimulating shower for the cadet when he comes in from a day's vigorous activity. (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)
Lord Strathcona Camp, 1956, is also the summer home of Dundurn's famous string of horses. Bought three years ago from profits of the Cadet Snack Bar they are mainly trained cow ponies of quarter breed stock. Cadets who have never had anything to do with horses learn how to care for them and take a few lessons in riding. Those who are already familiar with horses get a chance at some trail riding. A pleasing sight in the late evening is a dozen or so cadets in the horse corral rubbing down, and talking to their horses: the privilege of doing this is the reward for especially good behaviour. The area is ideal for training in fieldcraft, map reading, tactical exercises, etc. Parade square drilling has, more or less to go by the board during the week out there, in favour of activities most appropriate to the outdoors. Despite the lack of a parade square, however, each group that goes out prides itself on putting on a smart show of changing the guard and the ceremony of Retreat. There are plenty of good natural sports fields. Friday nights are generally reserved for wiener roasts and campfire get togethers. Meals from an outdoor kitchen are good and a branch of the snack shop takes care of growing boys' between meals hunger. Medical care is the same as at the main camp. Sunday morning Church Services are held in a natural amphitheatre. Padres live in the camp with their companies the whole week and cadets get to know them and talk to them in a way that is hard to manage in the main camp. It is hard to put a finger on any particular feature that makes the week at tented camp such a pleasant and valuable experience. Whatever it may be, there is something that welds a company together and helps create that indefinable thing known as esprit de corps. (Photo courtesy: Alexander Wakarchuk, Photographer: Unknown)