<strong>News Travels Fast</strong>
Reports from The Canadian Sapper military newspaper, Chilliwack
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<strong>Wainwright is an S.E.E. Paradise</strong>
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Despite heavy recurrent rains which transfer the normally sandy surface of Wainwright Camp into quaking morasses, a fleet of heavy equipment of various types is busily engaged in terracing the new Camp site at Wainwright, and reconstructing the main roads. As cursing drivers propel their sixties and jeeps through seemingly bottomless mud-holes, the imperturbable juggernauts chug their elliptical courses and move vast quantities of earth from high places to low places, and vice versa.

Under the command of Lt. J.T. Paradis, RCE, a group of military and civilian operators pilot half a dozen heavy tractors complete with carryall scrapers, 3 graders, and a couple of rollers. To augment the military equipment some seven tractors have been hired from contractors with assorted scrapers, graders and trucks. This equipment is working twenty hours a day, and the rumble and grind of machinery combines with the parade square rasp of instructors' voices in shattering the normal calm of the prairie air.

&hellip; despite the unceasing downpour, the &ldquo;Rue Paradis&rdquo; is beginning to take form and will shortly become the showpiece road of the Wainwright district, and area noted for the horror of its main thoroughfares.

<strong>Wainwright Camp Roads To Be Top Surfaced By New Method</strong>

Curious construction watchers have been greatly interested by a weird and wonderful contraption which has been noticed moving over the camp&rsquo;s new parade square&hellip; This machine will be observed during the ensuing weeks gobbling up stretches of camp road&hellip; and everywhere it passes will appear a smooth asphalt surfacing which will be the Wainwright motorist&rsquo;s dream.

Known as a single pass stabilizer, the machine is being used by the Don Channell Co. of Winnipeg&hellip; for the paving of two parade squares and about seven and one half miles of road in the Camp Area&hellip; 

&hellip; The machine scoops up the top layer of earth from the area to be paved, pulverizes it, mixes it with hot asphalt, and lays the mixture behind it. A road roller&hellip; flattens and consolidates the mixture. Following this treatment, a layer of asphalt is sprayed over the consolidated mixture, and a topping of stone chips is then scattered over the asphalt. A final rolling completes the pavement.

&hellip; paving is quite permanent and will end the trials and tribulations of transport drivers who have been consistently mired ever since the Engineers started their road construction programme.
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<strong>The Wainwright Warrior</strong>
Camp Wainwright&rsquo;s often lighthearted newpaper was issued monthly under the supervision of Lt. O.L. Studd, RCE from 1951 until 1954 at which time Studd was posted to Camp Borden. Most of these chronicles are stored within the Camp Wainwright History Scrapbooks and have been extremely helpful in establishing what took place in Camp Wainwright at that time. The following pages will include excerpts from the Warrior.