Harley WLCs - location in Canada?

[Bob Carriere]

Wayne you may have hit the target...... if the angle of your Vermilllion lake picture was shifted to the right....... or move the position of the camera down the road closer to the head of the lake....... a lot of very similar features between the two pictures........ the icefield/gravel slide leading into the lake may now have been covered with vegetation.............

[Wayne Hingley]

Verm2.jpgHow about this...? There is potentially a slight trace of a slide chute in the proper location.

The trees are definitely a lot larger now, as I believe this area was completely burnt about 100+ years ago (the railway started a huge fire in the area, I think).

[Bob Carriere]

Too many similarities.......has to be Vermillion Lake.

Snow in the mountain of the original ...changes in vegetation but the right mountain.

[Rob Cassin]

Thanks for the feedback. I got this from the Antique motorcycle site. One of the gents says it is Canadian Military convoy to Banff , Alberta in 1944.
Rob.

[Wayne Hingley]

Rob: the last photo you posted is in the same area (Canmore & Banff, Alberta).

[David Dunlop]

In the initial photo, it’s possible that jeep is a slat grilled MB and the writing along the lower windscreen looks similar to whatever is written across the canvas of the WLC windscreen in the front left position of the group.

In the early 40’s, when the Atlantic convoys were not doing so well, Canada had a top secret project in Banff National Park at a lake up in the Jasper area. They were working out how to build cargo ships out of ice. They successfully built a prototype but by the time it was all sorted out the tide turned in the Allies favour in the Atlantic and the project was abandoned.

About 5 years ago, I think, researchers stumbled across the project documents in Ottawa and a documentary showed up on TV about it. They found the ships engines and/or ice making equipment at the bottom of the lake where the project was worked on.

Maybe all those MP’s in the photo were connected to that project in some way?

David

[Wayne Hingley]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

In the initial photo, it’s possible that jeep is a slat grilled MB and the writing along the lower windscreen looks similar to whatever is written across the canvas of the WLC windscreen in the front left position of the group.

I think they all read “Military Police”.