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The entire First Division was housed in a "tent city" that had been erected hastily in August 1914 on the Valcartier Plains. Its rapid completion was a point of pride for Sir Sam Hughes, the Minister of Militia and Defence.

Black and white photograph. Soldiers stand at attention in an orderly column in front of a field of white cone shaped tents. — (Canada Dept. of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3642184.)

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