Vernon Photo Gallery

Vernon Photo Gallery 2004

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Pioneer Platoon, the first year

(DND)

C/WO Jeff Tse, C/MWO Kemp, and C/WO Yeung. (donated)

Charlie company 14, 15 and 16 pl staff on our FTX. (donated)

The following are an architectural essay on Camp Vernon. Vernon ACSTC is the last H-Hut camp left in the country of this size. At one time there were probably somewhere around 100 such camps from Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia all with the same efficient H-Hut style style barracks and mess halls. Vernon's lower camp with some 40 buildings was built in all of 6 weeks in the summer of 1941, a truly remarkable achievement.

B26 Mess Hall, evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B24 quarters evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B25 quarters evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B26 mess hall early evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

View from B16 evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B24 quarters evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B24 and canteen evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B24 quarters evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

View from B24 quarters evening Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B24 quarters morning Aug 21, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B26 mess hall morning Aug 21, 2004 (Phil Edge)

B24 quarters morning Aug 21, 2004 (Phil Edge)

Dieppe Square prior to final parade Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

Dieppe Square prior to final parade Aug 20, 2004 (Phil Edge)

The Kiska Gun, Aug 21, 2004. The Kiska Gun has been part of the camp since WWII, it was captured on the shores of Kiska Island in August 1943 during the invasion of the island. The Japanese unbeknownst to the Allies had evacuated the island just a few days before the invasion. Still, booby traps and land mines killed 4 Canadian soldiers, to which the gun is now dedicated as of Aug 2003 during the camps annual Drumhead service. (Phil Edge)

Headquarters and the Kiska Gun - after the cadets have left, Sept 2004 (Francois Arseneault)