Canadian Forces

Reserves - Grand Prairie, Alberta

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Magnus Evenrude (first left), a member of the Reserves, participates in a training exercise on Richmond Avenue at 99th Street. The Grande Prairie Courthouse can be seen in the background. Grand Prairie, located in Norther Alberta, was a million miles from Europe, but an invasion by the Japanese was considered a real threat in 1942 and as the Japanese were in the Aleution Islands off the coast of Alaska, the Canadians in the North were getting ready to fight. Army Training Exercise, ca. 1942