First Contingent of Victorians for the Front Leave for Valcartier. Volunteers from the Fifth Regiment, C.G.A. (Canadian Garrison Artillery). Artillery men, likely from the 5th Regiment Canadian Garrison Artillery, pose for a photo on the CPR docks in Victoria, BC. The steamships would take the troops to Vancouver where trains would transport them to Quebec City, 3200 miles to the east and then to England. The full-time 5th (British Columbia) Regiment of the Royal Canadian Garrison of Artillery [RCGA]) was based at the Work Point Barracks based at the Work Point barracks, Victoria.