First World War Training Trench Traditional Cache

Please don't bushwhack to this cache. Access is from the small road on base that turns off of Dieppe Rd, which is one way heading north. If coming from Angus, head south on Cambrai Rd, turn east on El Alamein Rd W and then turn north on Dieppe Rd.

Please remember you will be on a military base so respect all laws and regulations, and by entering the base, you agree to allow your vehicle and possesions to be searched by the authorities.

A short segment of the trenches used in Canada to train First World War soldiers has been restored and opened to the public.

About 350,000 Canadian soldiers trained at Camp Borden in Ontario during the First World War. Here they were they were introduced to the rigours of warfare in 18 kilometres of training trenches, knowledge they carried with them are put to good use in battles at Vimy Ridge in France and Passchendaele in Belgium.

Over the nine decades since they were first dug, the trenches collapsed and filled in, leaving but faint footprints of history–little more than ruts through the woods  at CFB Borden, about 100 kilometres north of Toronto, where about 15,000 military personnel are still trained each year.

A team of eight engineering soldiers, using hand shovels in order to ensure minimal disruption, redug a 50-metre section of the training trenches. The walls were braced with wooden planks, and topped with sandbags.  Plaques have been placed nearby to  tell the story of this unique Canadian site, which opened to the public Remembrance Day 2011.