No 9 Platoon, Cyclist Corps, Exhibition Camp

Before heading oversees, many Canadian soldiers took basic training at Camp Exhibition in downtown Toronto. “If our training bore little relationship to the type of warfare then being waged in France, where so-called ‘mounted troops’ were fighting grimly in the trenches of Sanctuary Wood, it was interesting training anyhow!” Source: Quoted in Ellis, W.D., and J. Gordon Beatty. Saga of the Cyclists in the Great War, 1914–1918. Toronto: Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion Association, 1965.