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[[Image:CFBPetawawa.JPG|thumb|500px|The main entrance to Garrison Petawawa.]]
'''Garrison Petawawa''', is a located in [[Petawawa, Ontario]]. It is operated as an army base by the [[Canadian Army]].

==Garrison facts==

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By 1907 combined training and tactical exercises were conducted by various other units such as A and B Squadron, [[Royal Canadian Dragoons]]; A and B Batteries, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery; No. 2 Company, Royal Canadian Engineers; a battalion from [[The Royal Canadian Regiment]]; and detachments from the Medical and Ordnance Corps.

The first military 
[[aircraft]] flight in [[Canada]] took place at Petawawa. On 31 July 1909 under perfect weather conditions, [[J.A.D. McCurdy]] and [[F.W. Baldwin]] flew the "[[AEA Silver Dart|Silver Dart]]" at Camp Petawawa in the presence of military observers. From December 1914 to May 1916, Petawawa was used as an internment camp for 750 German and Austrian prisoners of [[World War I]]. At the same time Canada Car and Foundry Company had developed three inch shells and were being tested at the camp by [[Russia]]n artiller(contracted; show full)==References==
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{{Canadian Forces Bases}}

[[Category:Canadian Forces bases in Ontario|Petawawa]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Renfrew County]]
[[Category:World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada]]