[7] CFB Valcartier was originally erected as a military training camp in August 1914[8][9] as part of the mobilization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the onset of World War I.

[10] Inaugurated by Jean Chrétien, then Prime Minister of Canada, in 1995, a 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) high bronze figure of a World War I soldier (1995) by André Gauthier at the entrance to CFB Valcartier commemorates the training of Canadian Army volunteers for the European battlefields in World War I.

[13] The name Valcartier comes from the town of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier,[14] of which a large section was expropriated in order to create the military training camp.

[24] In July 1974, an explosives safety training accident involving "D" Company killed six cadets and injured over 50.

[8][27][28] Adsum is a monthly newspaper for CFB Valcartier and the military community in the Quebec eastern area.

The readers of the newspaper are mostly the military (active and retired) and civilians working at CFB Valcartier.

[34] In 1997, a cancer-causing chemical, trichloroethylene, was found in the water supply of CFB Valcartier and the nearby town of Shannon, Quebec.