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Caption: Officer at summer training camp, Canadian Artillery, 1890s

An officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, relaxing in his tent on the western end of Ile d’Orléans in the 1890s. The tent pole is used to hang this officer's sword, sabretache, round ‘pill box’ cap and binoculars. The city of Quebec can be seen in the distance. For many decades, the volunteer militia’s 1st Quebec Field Battery and the garrison artillery batteries held their summer militia camps on Ile d’Orléans for artillery practice with gunners from the permanent force then stationed in the Quebec Citadel. The volunteer militia garrison artillery was divided into brigades gathering several batteries and also single batteries. (Royal Canadian Artillery Museum, CFB Shilo)