Inside - Camp X - chapter X

Inside Camp - X TM

Chapter X

By Lynn-Philip Hodgson

The Investigation of Camp - X

It was a beautiful sunny, warm, afternoon in July of 1976. Marlene, my wife, and I, were enjoying our new home on Shannon Court in Whitby, Ontario. Marlene was in her hammock reading and I was lying in a lounge chair just taking in the sun. I had my head back, my eyes closed and was thinking about absolutely nothing. I had been working hard at my job installing a new computer system and the long drive and long hours were taking their toll on me. I was enjoying this Sunday afternoon and nothing was going to get me out of this chair.

July, 1976 - 15 Shannon Court, Whitby, Ontario, Canada

That was until Marlene said, "I’ll bet that’s near here!" Those spoken words were about to change my life in a big way……
"What’s near here?" I asked.
She said, "Camp - X. There was a training ground somewhere near Whitby. From the way it’s described, it must be near by."
It took me back to 1964 when Mar and I were first married. We often went to a local movie theater. The movie that was showing at the Elgin Theatre one particular evening was one of Ian Fleming’s "James Bond" movies. It went into great detail about the training of the SOE agents, although they weren’t called "SOE" agents at that time, and it peaked my interest.
I remember coming out of the theatre thinking, " I’m sure there was a training camp somewhere in the Toronto area." There was no information available then, and we went home and thought little more about it until that day in the back yard twelve years later.
I got out of my lounge chair, walked into the house, got dressed and said to Marlene, " I’m going to go look around". I went to downtown Whitby and started to ask questions of the older people who worked in the stores and who had lived in town during the war.
Someone said, "Oh, I think that it was down at the lake". He thought if you went down Thornton Road, it would take you right to where the camp had been. ....................