Poem to the "muddy old Engineers"

[Sapper740]

Last time I saw the base was in '06 as I was posted there for summer employment training reserve recruits. We used the buildings at the old CFOCS, now called the "Hotel" by the RCMP. They call it the PRTC for their purpose. We used your old school house that was close to dry gulch for training and of course OPSEE and Lindsay Valley... Dry gulch was gone by then, sure looked different. The parade square was halved and used for their MC training courses. The PMQs were overhauled and sold off back in 2000. Most of the area has been built over. I think the bridge layer and cenotaph are still present...in situ. The rifle ranges across the road are long gone, houses... Have a look at Google Earth.

Thank God the cenotaph is still there. I just google earthed the camp and it's unrecognizable. Is the bailey bridge still there over the Vedder canal?

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[browningautorifle]

Is the bailey bridge still there over the Vedder canal?

Last time I was there it was.

It's not quite the old one but the look is similar. I remember the old one.

[Sapper740]

Last time I was there it was.

It's not quite the old one but the look is similar. I remember the old one.

That's the bridge right by the camp, was there a bailey bridge there too? It's been so long I don't remember. I remember there was a bailey over the canal a couple of miles west of the Camp.

[browningautorifle]

I remember there was a bailey over the canal a couple of miles west of the Camp.

Only thing there now is the Railway bridge.