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Military Engineers Head to Latvia to Build Canadian Base

Article by David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen, 29 April 2017 Approximately 50 members of 4 Engineer Support Regiment (4 ESR) left for Latvia Saturday for Operation REASSURANCE, the Canadian military’s contribution to NATO assurance measures in… more...
This 2010 photo shows members of the 74 Construction Troop from 4 Engineering Support Regiment building a structure for an orphanage in Haiti. DND photo.

Operation LENTUS 17-01 – New Brunswick Ice Storm

Article by : Lt MB Clancey – IRU Vanguard Composite Troop Commander On January 25th 2017, a destructive ice storm hit the Acadian Peninsula in Northern New Brunswick. The ice storm damaged or destroyed over 400 transmission poles and left… more...
Member of 4 Engineer Support Regiment removing an ice laden tree

5 CER on the Road to High Readiness

Since the end of the regimental winter exercise, EX SAPEUR BLANC 2017, troops from 5 CER have switched gears in preparation for the upcoming high readiness period which begins in the fall of 2017. The 5 CER maintenance troop is working… more...
Maintenance Troop

A Mi’kmaq Tunneller's Story - Sgt Sam Glode, DSM

The following story has been extracted from a longer article, Sam Glode: Travels of a Micmac , originally written by Ronald Caplan and published in the Cape Breton's Magazine in 1983. The article relates the stories told by Sam Glode, a… more...
Spr Sam Glode from memorial Mi’kmaq poster

Profiles of Courage at Vimy Ridge

  As a way to recognise the victory and sacrifice at Vimy Ridge, Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) has published a series of Profiles in Courage listing a number of soldiers, including one Sapper. Sergeant Sam Glode, a Mi’kmaq… more...
Badge of the Canadian Engineers during the Great War

ADM(IE) Leaders Attend Exercise UBIQUE at CFB Gagetown

From 15-17 February, ADM(IE)’s Chief of Staff, MGen Sylvain Sirois, and the Commander of the Real Property Operations Group, Col Kevin Horgan, attended Exercise UBIQUE at the  Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering (CFSME) at… more...
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4 ESR at Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE

From 5 March to 5 April 2017, 4 Engineer Support Regiment (4 ESR) will support Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE (Ex MR) camp construction in Wainwright AB. During this time, 4 ESR’s 45 Vertical Construction Squadron (VCS) will design, plan and… more...

Op IMPACT 2.0 - Erbil - September 2016

In January 2016, 1 ESU was tasked with the design and implementation of a 110 personnel camp in support of Op IMPACT 2.0 in Erbil, Iraq. The camp in Erbil was needed to support a tactical aviation squadron as well as Joint Task Force… more...

1 ESU Designs and Builds Camp Érable in Iraq

After months of hard work and determination, personnel from 1 Engineer Support Unit (ESU), CFB Kingston can call their mission complete. The unit, which provides deployable, specialist military engineering services to the Canadian Armed… more...
Panoramic view of Camp Érable

100th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Canadian Forestry Corps in France

100th Anniversary of the Arrival of THE CANADIAN FORESTRY CORPS in the Aquitaine Region of France in the Summer of 1917 Note: “The Lumberjack Trail” is a project in France that honours the American, British and Canadian Forestry troops… more...