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4th Canadian Division Training Centre (also 4 CDTC)is a Canadian Forces training facility operated by 4th Canadian Division of the Canadian Army. It is located in Grey County, Ontario, northwest of the Meaford townsite and approximately 25 km east of Owen Sound on a peninsula extending into Georgian Bay. Relatively few military personnel are stationed at the training centre as it serves primarily for training Primary Reserve and regular force stationed within 4th Canadian Division. The training centre conducts year-round courses for Regular Force personnel, generally the DP1 Infantry for the RCR, Royal Canadian Regiment, while expanding dramatically during the summer months to accommodate a large number of courses for Primary Reserve personnel. During the period of June–September every year, LFCA TC Meaford serves as the primary training location for Primary Reserve and exercises for units from the Greater Toronto Area, also other locations across southern and eastern portions of Ontario. __FORCETOC__ == Camp Meaford == In 1942, the Department of National Defence purchased of private lands along Georgian Bay in the St. Vincent Township. The southern edge of this property is 5 km northwest of the town of Meaford and its western boundary is 15 km northeast of the city of Owen Sound. The property is centred on Cape Rich, a headland extending into Georgian Bay which divides Owen Sound from Nottawasaga Bay. The Meaford Military Camp (also known as Camp Meaford) was intended for tank warfare and artillery gunnery training. Its landscape included limestone cliffs, dense forest and rolling open agricultural land, as well as swamps all based on a topography of heavy clay broken up by a vast distribution of rock, Mountain Lake, and a 22 km shoreline. The facility was administratively an annex to Camp Borden. From its inception during World War II until the late 1960s when the Canadian Forces were unified, Camp Meaford was used extensively by regular force Canadian Army units assigned to Camp Borden. It hosted the following training schools for exercises and driver training: * Royal Canadian Armoured School * Royal Canadian School of Infantry * School of Intelligence and Security * School of Administration and Logistics(formerly the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps School) * School of Medical Services The integration of the modern-day Canadian Forces saw the transfer of the Combat Arms School from CFB Borden to CFB Gagetown in 1969–1970, dramatically reducing the requirement for Camp Meaford. In 1970, it was decided to mothball the entire facility, reducing staffing from 153 military and civilian personnel to a five-person security staff of Commissionaires. :"...when Meaford Range is dormatized...it will no longer be used for military purposes, including Regular Force and Militia exercises, training and field firing." (April 1970 DND internal communication) 〔()〕 During the early 1970s, units of the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve began to make unofficial use of this DND property only north of Toronto, rather than face the drive to CFB Petawawa for training. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Land Force Central Area Training Centre Meaford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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