We were lucky to get that.

Little did we know then of the field kitchens, with their pipes smoking and dinners cooking, which later on used to follow up the battalions as they moved.
The camp at Valcartier was really a wonderful place.

Rapidly the roads were laid out, the tents were run up, and from west and east and north and south men poured in.

There was activity everywhere.

Water was laid on, and the men got the privilege of taking shower-baths, beside the dusty roads.