Engineer's Viewpoint

Canada Lands Company erected the Engineer's Viewpoint memorial. The Canadian Engineers Permanent Corps was established in 1903. The Corp’s mission is to contribute to the survival, mobility and combat effectiveness of The Canadian Forces. It has accomplished this task through two world wars, the Korean War, the Cold War and numerous other combat and peacekeeping missions, completing construction and maintenance of defensive works and fortifications, demolitions and land mine removal, the establishment and maintenance of lines of communications, construction of road works, airfields, and bridges, vertical construction and utilities, environmental stewardship, fire fighting, air and vehicle crash rescue, surveying and cartography. The Engineers have been represented at the Griesbach Barracks site by the 1st Airborne Field Squadron (1968-1977) and the 8th Field Engineer Regiment (1977-2001). This viewpoint, which looks toward a replica of a Bailey Bridge, was constructed by members of the 8th Field Engineer Regiment in 2005.