Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Battle of the Atlantic Britain required more than a million tons of imported material per week to keep fighting. This created a tonnage war: the Allied struggle to supply Britain versus the Axis attempt to stop the flow of merchant shipping . . . — — Map (db m274895) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Barrie was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Named for the town of Barrie, Ontario, she was laid down by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. at Collingwood, . . . — — Map (db m274896) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Canada Goes Into Combat By 1942, war had been raging for almost three years and Britain was the last Allied hold-out left by Western Europe. The Allied Forces planned to launch a raid to test German coastal defenses for a future assault. The . . . — — Map (db m274897) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Fortress Europe During the Second World War, the Allies knew they would have to defeat Germany in Western Europe to win the war but a way into France was needed. The coastline from Denmark to the south of France was fortified with German land . . . — — Map (db m274898) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Acorns Sent to Canada In 1917 Lieutenant Leslie H. Miller, a soldier with the Canadian Expeditionary Force (1914-1919), sent acorns home to Canada that he had gathered after the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. These acorns are now large . . . — — Map (db m274899) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Liberating the Netherlands Canadian forces were tasked with liberating the Netherlands from Nazi occupation. For the first time in history, two Canadian army corps were fighting together and with more than 450,000 men the First Canadians became . . . — — Map (db m274973) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Most Decorated Indigenous Soldier in Canadian History “Peggy”, as he was called in the trenches, became known as a legendary sniper. He would crawl out at night into the cratered earth of no man's land and dig himself into the dirt to wait . . . — — Map (db m274980) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Boredom On the Western Front, day to day life in the trenches included routine inspections, cleaning latrines, filling sandbags, and receiving a daily rum ration. When time allowed, soldiers read, kept journals, wrote letters or gambled. . . . — — Map (db m274986) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
How could the two small independent Afrikaner (Boer) republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State challenge the mighty British Empire? Transvaal was home to the richest gold fields on earth and worth defending. The Boer governments struck . . . — — Map (db m274990) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Prairie Tension Erupts In the early 1880's, some people felt militant action was needed to force the Canadian government to settle all unresolved land claims in the North West Territories (Alberta and Saskatchewan). In March 1885, . . . — — Map (db m274992) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Taking Canada Hostage Following the end of the American Civil War in 1865, many Irish-American veterans formed the Fenian Brotherhood, planning to liberate Ireland from Britain, in exchange for Canada. The Fenian raids began in 1866, with . . . — — Map (db m274995) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
Crimea Crimèe Alexander Dunn Indian Rebellion of 1857 Rébellion indienne de 1857 William Hall • Herbert Reade Bravery at Sea Bravoure en mer Campbell Douglas Boer War Guerre des Boers Raymond DeMontmorency • Hampden Cockburn • . . . — — Map (db m274996) WM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
This land was dedicated as a Military Heritage Park in recognition of the significant relationship between the City of Barrie and Canadian Forces Base Borden with the generous contribution of the Rotary Club of Barrie and the commitment of City . . . — — Map (db m274998) HM
Near Lakeshore Drive 0.9 kilometers west of Minet's Point Road, on the right when traveling west.
The concept for Military Heritage Park was proposed by the Rotary Club of Barrie to City Council to recognize the City's military history and the relationship between CFB Base Borden and the City. It is dedicated to those valiant men and women . . . — — Map (db m274997) HM
