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Location Category ID:
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8200
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Address: |
1000 Stevenson Rd N, Oshawa, ON L1J 5P5. South Field, Oshawa Municipal Airport (Physical)
The Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum, Col RS McLaughlin Armoury, 53 Simcoe St N, Oshawa, ON L1G 4R9 (Postal)
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Telephone: |
905.728.6199
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Email: |
info [at] ontrmuseum.ca (Replace [at] with @)
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Opening Times: |
1200-1600: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holiday Mondays (May until 11 November). Visits can be arranged at other times.
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Official Website: |
Ontario Regiment RCAC Regimental Museum
Museum History
Armoured Vehicles of the Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum
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Other Links: |
Wikipedia - Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum
Ontario Regiment Museum Rollpast Day
Toronto Sun
Durham Region
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Latitude, Longitude: |
43.916773
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-78.895252
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Location Accuracy: |
7
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Tanks Previously Here: |
1: Fahrschulpanzer Leopard Driver Training Tank - Georgina Military Museum, Georgina, Keswick, Ontario, Canada (seen 7 July 2007)
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The Ontario Regiment’s museum began with the Ferret Club, founded in Oshawa in 1980. The Regiment’s Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, Norman Wilton, an Airborne veteran of World War II and prominent business leader, provided the initial funding for the establishment of a nine-car troop of Ferret scout cars procured from Canadian Forces. A small group of active and retired crewmen, NCOs and officers came together for the purpose of stripping the Ferrets and restoring them to parade-ready operational condition. As the club’s membership and collection expanded so, too, did its appetite for larger restoration projects. Jeeps, Sherman and Centurion tanks soon followed, as did a series of wheeled vehicles including GM trucks built in Oshawa during the war years. The museum also took possession of several retired Canadian APCs, Lynxes, a Staghound, wreckers, American M60 tanks, an artillery piece and the actual jeep used by the late Major Ward Irwin (later Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment) in theatre during the Italian campaign.
Over the past three decades, the museum’s collection has grown to include a number of fully restored vehicles including several tanks and tracked vehicles used by the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, the Canadian Forces, and allied forces. In 1980, the club set up shop in a two bay garage formerly located at the intersection of Simcoe St N and Glover’s Rd in Oshawa. The Club relocated to a dairy farm near Ritson Rd N and the 8th Concession for a few years in the mid-1980s. Before long, it became necessary to find a permanent home for the club’s rapidly growing collection. The members felt there was no more historically appropriate location than the Oshawa Municipal Airport, home to the Commonwealth Air Training Plan for allied pilots during the Second World War. At that time it was known as the Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum.
The Ontarios, past and present, enjoy a long history of service and gallantry which is documented and explained in the museum’s static display section. The static displays were, for many years, housed in a room at Parkwood, the home of the Ontario’s storied patron and long-time Honorary Colonel, Robert Samuel McLaughlin, founder and president of General Motors Canada. The club and museum are more than just a showcase of vintage military vehicles and equipment. The museological functions of acquisition, storage, conservation, research, exhibition also contribute to the understanding of Canada’s military history during the past three centuries. (Source: Ontario Regimental Museum website).
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External Display Area
An area displaying vehicles in front of the museum.
| Location ID: | 8210 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 43.91705, -78.895176 | | Location Accuracy: | 7 |
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2435
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Unique ID: |
2448
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65240: “65240” stamped into rear tow lugs. “5240” stamped into right of transmission cover.
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“16982 stamped into right of transmission cover. “W345” stamped into forward left hull side. “4 7 3-1 2” stamped into forward right hull side. “E6” cast into mantlet. (W) cast into turret rear. “D 5 10162 B9 6235 5” stamped into left hull fuel cap surround. “ONT R” above red/yellow square on front left glacis and right hull rear. “CENTRAL COMMAND” and castle insignia in red shield on right of glacis and left hull rear. White stars painted on hull sides.
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This M4A2 has a blocked up bow machine-gun mount. It has torn front mud flaps, has a broken suspension unit on the left side, and is fitted with tracks with badly worn out pads.
It is presumed to have been part of the original collection in the 1980s when it was housed at the 8th Concession dairy farm. It appears to have fittings for the Canadian Indestructible Roller Device (CIRD).
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2449
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“?796T ?SC” cast into left turret side. “0/18” stamped into mantlet cover bracket. “ONT R” above red/yellow square on front left mud flap and right hull rear. “CENTRAL COMMAND” and castle insignia in red shield on front right mud flap and left hull rear.
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This Centurion Mark 5 is missing its smoke grenade dischargers. It is presumed to have been part of the original collection in the 1980s when it was housed at the 8th Concession dairy farm.
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External Storage Area
| Location ID: | 8220 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 43.916813, -78.895619 | | Location Accuracy: | 7 |
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2450
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2918A, previously 5029: “2918A” stamped into left upper and lower engine deck sides, “5029” stamped into left upper and lower engine deck sides but crossed out. Also “1394” stamped into left upper engine deck side.
504 (hull): “SER 504 831” cast into lower rear hull.
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JJ04YB?: “JJ04YB”? stamped into lower left glacis.
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“157 BDE ?RP-9CAV”? painted on lower right glacis and rear left mud flap. “57” painted on lower left hull rear. “Y” painted on lower right hull rear. Small black star painted across engine doors. Various numbers cast and stamped into engine doors, hull rear and underside, and sprocket mounts. Painted overall in a sand, cream, green and black MERDC camouflage scheme.
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This M60A3 is in running order. It arrived at the museum in the early 1990s.
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2451
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2922A: “2922A” stamped into left upper and lower engine deck sides, another number is stamped into left upper and lower engine deck sides but crossed out and not legible.
764 (hull): “SER 764 HT7200” cast into lower rear hull.
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Various numbers cast and stamped into engine doors, hull rear and underside, and sprocket mounts. Painted overall in a green and black camouflage scheme.
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This M60A3 is in running order. It arrived at the museum in the early 1990s. It has a plaque fixed below the engine doors that reads: “CHRYSLER CORPORATION DEFENSE OPERATIONS DIVISION DETROIT, MICHIGAN” and indicates the location where it was built.
It took part in a ‘flashback’ movie scene with Rob Lowe, probably part of ‘Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming’, that was filmed on location at Uxbridge, Ontario, in about 2006 (source: Cat Tales, December 2006).
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2452
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“52-5-??” painted on left turret side.
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“51” on red/yellow square painted on right glacis. Painted overall in desert sand.
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This Centurion is stored with its turret traversed to the rear and covered with a tarpaulin.
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2456
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06 EB 80: “06EB80” painted on nose and left hull rear.
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Painted overall in a green and sand camouflage scheme.
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This Abbot was provided by the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) detachment at Suffield, Alberta, in the early 1990s.
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Internal Storage
| Location ID: | 8230 | | Latitude, Longitude: | 43.916829, -78.895392 | | Location Accuracy: | 7 |
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2459
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T42938: “T42938” painted on hull sides.
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This Stuart is on loan from a private collector. It arrived in about October 2013 and was shown off in the museum’s Tank Saturday event. It is in running order.
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2453
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“WILTIN WILTON” previously painted on right turret side.
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“ONT R” above red/yellow square on front left mud flap and right hull rear. “CENTRAL COMMAND” and castle insignia in red shield on front right mud flap and left hull rear.
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This M24 is in running order. It was part of the collection in the 1980s when it was housed at the 8th Concession dairy farm. In 2005 it took part in the 60th Anniversary of VE Day celebrations in Ottawa. In 2006 it was in the movie ‘Shoot ‘Em Up’, filmed on location at the Coliseum in Toronto, Ontario (source: Cat Tales, December 2006).
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2454
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“BULLDOG” painted on gun barrel sides. Bulldog insignia painted on commander’s cupola shield sides.
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“1Δ11” painted on front right nose and left hull rear. “B-32” painted on front left nose and right hull rear. Painted overall in a green, sand and black MERDC camouflage scheme. Previously painted overall sand with a black chevron painted on hull sides.
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This Sheridan is in running order. It arrived at the museum in the early 1990s. In about 2006 it was shown at the Militaria Show at the International Center in Toronto, Ontario (source: Cat Tales, December 2006).
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Unique ID: |
2455
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64993 (source: A. Adams).
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“78-904” painted on hull sides.
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“B A R T” painted on hull sides.
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White stars painted on transmission cover and hull sides.
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This Sherman is in running order. In 2005 it took part in the 60th Anniversary of VE Day celebrations in Ottawa.
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2460
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361 350201: “361 350201” painted on hull sides.
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“BEOWULF” painted on hull sides.
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Green square with red edge painted on turret sides.
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This Sherman is in running order. According to the owner in July 2012: “I purchased this last month and have a long term usage agreement with the Ontario Regiment Museum. It was built in 1945 and is one of 300 purchased by the Canadian Government in 1946 for $1,400 each. They were used from 1946 to about 1972 until fully replaced by Centurions. I drove them while in the reserves with the Ontario Regiment. It runs well but has a steering issue that is currently being sorted out. New tracks and other bits are waiting to go on. This Sherman will enable the Ontario Regiment Museum to field two running M4A2s”. (Source: Duffy/HMVF).
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