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Page consists of 1 clipping titled, "A Three Days' Tussle on the Mountains," which includes a photograph depicting soldiers hauling a large gun through the snow up Grouse Mountain, British Columbia.

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  • A THREE DAYS' TUSSLE ON THE MOUNTAINS [PHOTOGRAPH] Men of the Overseas draft of the Artillery Division of the Vancouver Volunteer Reserve taking a 15-pounder gun to the top of Grouse Mountain, overlooking Burrard Inlet. The altitude reached with this 700-lb. weight--not including wheels, timber or shfts--was 4,000 feet. In some places the snow was 12 feet deep. On some days there were blizzards. There were huge boulders, standing timber and snowdrifts to fight. But they did it, and they reckon there is nothing in trench life at the front that is very much harder. These men are qualified for such work as the italians are doing in the mountains.
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