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- Valcartier military base. Due to the site's proximity to the Quebec City harbour…
Valcartier military base. Due to the site's proximity to the Quebec City harbour…
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- Held by
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec via BAnQ (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Dates
- circa 1914 (indexed as 1914)
- Level
- item (source: Image)
- Scope & content
- Postcard of the Valcartier military base. Due to the site's proximity to the Quebec City harbour, Valcartier was hastily set up as a military camp upon the commencement of the First World War, ultimately becoming the largest military base on Canadian soil during the war and serving as the main embarkation point for troops headed to Europe.
- Location
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- Access & use
- Public domain Via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valcartier_-_Section_of_the_Camp.JPG
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- Subjects
- 1914 in Quebec City; 1914 postcards of Canada; Canada in World War I in 1914; Postcards of Quebec City; Tents in Canada; Valcartier Military Camp (World War I); World War I forces of Canada
- Format
- Photograph
- Harvested
- 2026-10-20T19:31:33Z · source datestamp n/a · commons
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗Valcartier_-_Section_of_the_Camp.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original