Canadian Forestry Corps in France [textual record]
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Hierarchy Canadian Forestry Corps in France [textual record]
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Record information Canadian Forestry Corps in France [textual record]
Date:[ca. 1914-1920]Reference:R611-277-X-E, RG9-III-B-1-9, series 9Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:182919Date(s):[ca. 1914-1920]Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:6.7 m of textual recordsLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:Sub-series consists of the administrative records of the Canadian Forestry Corps in France.Biography/Administrative history:Canada. Canadian Forestry Corps. Directorate of Forestry (France) : Authorised in October 1916 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander McDougall, the CFC was composed of companies, each of which came under one of the six district headquarters in Great Britain or one of the eight district headquarters in France. Companies in France were numbered below 100. The CFC in France came under the British Expeditionary Force, Director of Works until March 1917 when a Directorate of Forestry was created. Districts in France were organised into Central, Bordeaux, and Jura Groups. The Corps headquarters was established at Paris-Plage, near Boulogne.
Most CFC Companies were engaged in general forestry operations - including the making of pit props, railway sleepers, saw logs and axe handles - but some cleared, drained, levelled and graded sites for aerodromes, both in England and in France.Additional information:Source of title:Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.Custodial history:The records in this sub-series were sent to the Canadian War Records Office at the end of the war and were subsequently transferred to Ottawa where they were sorted and filed by subject and arranged into series by the Army Historical Section.Accruals:No further accruals are expected.Source:GovernmentFormer archival reference no.:RG9-III-B-1-9
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