Jim Reese and his girlfriend Kim were out joy riding in Jim's father's 1938 Buick. It was a beautiful summer day so they had decided to go for a drive down to the beach and perhaps do a little "skinny dipping". They were driving down Thornton Road approaching the lake when suddenly an army Jeep carrying two soldiers with rifles aimed cut across in front of them causing Jim to slam his foot on the brakes. Jim and Kim were taken by surprise as, although Canada was officially at war, Canadians did not really see the effect other than their fathers, mothers, sons and daughters being sent overseas on a regular basis. Thus, to be confronted by two soldiers with rifles drawn was quite alarming.

The soldiers asked the obvious, "What do you think you are doing here?" They replied, "Going for a swim." "Not here", said the soldiers and told the kids to turn around and never come back. The soldiers did not say that this was a  Canadian army base or a top secret area! There were only small Department of National Defence signs posted and, contrary to folklore, only the original four-foot  barbed wire fences which had been used for keeping the cattle inside the property when it was the farm known as ‘Glenrath’. The larger eight-foot  barbed wire fences did not appear until 1946 when Camp - X was turned over to the Canadian Signal Corp. Camp - X was so secret that it could not risk putting up any "red flags" which would lead to its discovery.
 

The only sign to greet you from Thornton Rd turning into Camp - X

 Camp - X was protected solely by a grid of roads that criss-crossed through the rolling fields of the Camp and was patrolled 24 hours a day by Jeep. By keeping the original farmhouses, barns, etc. intact and with no signs or fences, the Camp would  appear inconspicuous...........................

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