The camp pictured in this show actually did exist in Ontario. The camp trained many people who were vital to the war effort. Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many other books trained here for a time.
Another famous name to have trained at Camp X was author Ian Fleming. There is one (unproven) theory that Fleming devised the name JAMES BOND from the ST JAMES-BOND UNITED CHURCH on Avenue Road, the street he lived on while in Toronto. (The congregation resulted from a merger of ST JAMES Square Presbyterian Church with BOND Street Congregational Church.) The whole story is well documented with many photographs in INSIDE CAMP X by Canadian author Lynn Philip Hodgson.
On the logo page, "CAMP X" is spelled in Morse code.
Camp X was located in Whitby, Ontario on Thornton Road South on the shores of Lake Ontario, due south of the Whitby GO Train Station. There is a monument on the site.
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