POW/Work Camp Vehicles in Canada

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

There was a seasonal German POW work camp in the upper reaches of the Gatineau park around Lac Lapeche and although I found confirmation of it's existence no other details seem available......being remote trucks must have been used extensively for the 2 to 3 hour one way drive from/to Ottawa back in 1940.

Google satellite shows the remains of the camp Bob refers to near Lac LaPeche at https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.62461.../data=!3m1!1e3 Although near Lac Lapeche, the camp has its own, much smaller, lake - Lac LeBlanc.


In the late 1970s I worked as a lifeguard at Lac LaPeche. The children campers from Camp Gatineau were frequent visitors to Lac La Peche so I assume Lac Leblanc wasn't considered fit for swimming, or perhaps the staff at the camp wanted to tire the children on the walk to/from Lac LaPeche. At that time we allowed an hour for the drive from Hull (now Gatineau) to the beach. I'm not 100% certain but believe the camp is still operating.


The thread Terry refers to is at http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...=camp+gatineau