The only event of any moment was a swimming parade on Wednesday. It was awfully hot and the brigade had been out on a full dress mounted all morning. so instead of the usual afternoon of gun drill we were all marched down to the weir. The water was fine.

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 13 ELLISON FAMILY, Vernon. Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Vernon Ellison, 1917-1920.