Barriefield Camp

[Freedom_Rider]

I need a Little help here please.

If anyone can identify this photo and tell me where it was taken.
All I know is that it was in my fathers collection of photos of WW1 photos and had 'Barriefield Camp' written on the back.
Is it Camp Borden as I believe it to be?
If not, where is it?

It would be very hard to ask my father as he has been dead now for a number of years.

Thanks.

 

[George Wallace]

Barriefield Camp is in Kingston.  It is at the top of the hill above RMC, in what is now CFB Kingston. 

 

[old medic]

http://www.magma.ca/~leprecha/38th_battalion_may_25_1915.html

The 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles leave Lansdowne Park at 7:30 o'clock tonight, and will march by Bank Street, McLeod, Metcalfe and Sparks to Central Station where the battalion entrains at 8:30 o'clock for Barriefield Camp, Kingston. The G. G. F. G. regiment will turnout and accompany the Canadian Mounted Rifles to the station.

http://www.rcsigs.ca/ViewItem/288/

http://www.rcsigs.ca/ViewItem/289/

 

[swellal]

Yes, that is the former name for CFB Kingston.  This is a photo of the Depot, or recruiting Battalion, for the 21st Battalion CEF which was raised in Kingston in 1914 and went overseas in May of 1915.  The Depot stayed back for recruiting duties.

Al
PWOR Archivist

 

[Freedom_Rider]

Thanks to everyone for the info.
I'll be taking a drive out that way this summer to check out the area and see what is still around.

 

[swellal]

Thanks to everyone for the info.
I'll be taking a drive out that way this summer to check out the area and see what is still around.

If you get to Kingston for a visit this summer let me know swellal@hotmail.com and I can arrange a tour of the PWOR Museum which has many artifacts from the Great War.  I would also like to see the photo that you posted above and any other material from WW1 that you may have.

Al