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establishments commonly outlined camp features with whitewashed stones
" Rock art" also displayed insignias, even animals. Sarcee camp was no exception. As leisure occupation or spirited competition, to record their existence, or even as discipline, battalions created numbers and badge designs. The last veteran of the 137th recalled "the make work" projects for recruits awaiting transfer overseas. Designed and plotted on paper, military engineers surberans established the outline in string. Lines of men handed stones up the slop or carried them in sacks. Stones weighing hundreds of pounds were carried on a litter. Completion continued periodical |
until overseas orders arrived. Then work hurried to leave a finished record. in 1924 more than twenty formations existed. Gradually they appeared. These last four surviving numbers were occasionally weeded and whitewashed by veterans or serving forces. Suggestions for preservation were made, but not undertaken until 1984, when veteran and development interests comcided. The 113 was designated a Provincial Historic Resource. The 54, 151, and 137 were mapped , moved, and with the hill remodeled, were painstaking returned, close to their original position. Here in Battalion park, the numbers are preserved and protected for the future. |
Battalion Parks location:
3015-Signal Hill Drive S.W. (top side)
Battalion Parks location:
Signal Hill Shopping Centre S.W. (bottom side, behind Staples)
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