Found a couple of articles on the Whitewater Lake Camp with photos of some of the POW'S and buildings. But no vehicles yet.
Some of the descriptions suggest a vehicle maintenance shop may have been on site, but since this camp was gathering cord wood, this shop may have been primarily to service the available logging trucks. Indications are some horse teams may also have been active with the work.
Also some reports of POW's borrowing vehicles from the guards to go to dances in the towns just South of the park on weekends and to shop for piglets to raise for the camp menu.
And on the topic of food, it seems that in hunting season, both the guards and POW's would head out in trucks with rifles from the Guard House for deer, elk and moose.
Apparently as well, the German Medical Officer had access to a vehicle to take to Dauphin for medical supplies and for patient treatments he was unable to deal with at the camp.
It would not surprise me if some of these vehicles were disposed of at the end of the war, at the War Assets Depot which had been set up at RCAF Station Dauphin.
David
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