Ma Cabane au Canada

Some years ago (in the 80s), a former director of Vimy had this quaint little cabin built back in the woods on the memorial site under the pretense that the guides would then have somewhere they could go to relax and have bar-b-q's and feel like they had a little piece of Canada right here in France. Because so many Canadians actually live in, or spend time in log cabins. Uh, right.

His real reason for constructing this neat little hide-a-way was so that he would have a place to bring his secretary, with whom he was having an affair. His office was in his house, along with his wife, and so, it would seem, that a cabin was necessary. The secretary and the director ended up together in the end, or so we've been told.

Oh, today the Durand group stashes some of their gear here, and, I suspect, use it as a place to smoke cigars and have a few refreshing bevies at the end of a long day of rooting around for abandoned mines.