Evening Walk at Stover | The Canadian “Sawdust Fusiliers”

Take a peaceful 15-minute evening walk through Stover Country Park, ending at a fascinating and easily missed piece of First World War history. In 1916, Canadian lumbermen arrived at Stover to help Britain with a vital wartime problem: timber. Known as the “Sawdust Fusiliers”, around 250 Canadian foresters and sawyers worked at Stover, eventually felling around 700 acres of the estate and producing more than 650,000 cubic feet of timber before they left in 1917. The timber was used for everything from railway sleepers, huts and ammunition boxes to trenches, roads and fuel on the Western Front. On the way to the memorial, I'll share a few of the lesser-known stories behind the men who came to Stover, before finishing at the Canadian Forestry Corps memorial with its wooden figures, horse and information board. 🌲 A quiet evening walk 🇨🇦 A forgotten Canadian connection 🎖️ A piece of First World War history 🥾 Around 15 minutes Simple Steps | Walking, nature, local history and places worth discovering. "The Curtain Rises" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...