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The museum is located on the South Field of the Oshawa Municipal Airport, 1000 Stevenson Rd N, Oshawa, Ontario (50 km east of Toronto, Ontario). The museum is composed of a static section tracing the history of the Ontario Regiment , and a "Vehicle Section" with more than 100 operational military vehicles, including jeeps, trucks and tanks ...
The museum was founded in 1980 as the Ontario Regiment Ferret Club. Housed in a garage in north Oshawa, the collection began with nine fully restored surplus Canadian Ferret armoured cars. [1] Ferret Scout Car in Canadian UN detail, 1993 First parade: (From left) ONT R HLCol Wilton, with CO LCol Morin and USO Capt Wilkinson (8CH), Oshawa, 1981
The MapArt Publishing Corporation is a Canadian cartography publisher founded in 1981 by Peter Heiler Ltd. [1] that produces and prints yearly editions of maps for Canada and the United States. Headquartered in Oshawa , Ontario , MapArt is Canada's leading map publisher, producing more Canadian titles than any of its competitors and all ...
The regiment mobilized The Ontario Regiment (Tank), CASF, on 1 September 1939. It was redesignated as The Ontario Regiment (Tank), CASF, on 13 August 1940. It was converted to armour on 23 November 1940, and an army tank battalion on 11 February 1941, under the designation 11th Army Tank Battalion (The Ontario Regiment (Tank)), CAC, CASF.
A view of part of the site of Camp X looking toward Lake Ontario. Camp X was established December 6, 1941, by the chief of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba and a close confidant of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [7]
The Lakeshore East line is the second oldest of GO's services, opening as part of the then-unified Lakeshore line on GO's first day of operations, 23 May 1967. [2] It is ten minutes younger than its twin; although the first train from Pickering bound for Toronto left at 6:00 am that day, a 5:50 am departure from Oakville on Lakeshore West beat it into the record books.
Old CNR station. The Grand Trunk Railway between Montreal and Toronto was completed in 1856 [2] and the first Oshawa station was where Albert Street met the GTR tracks. [3] In 1923, the Grand Trunk was absorbed by the Canadian National Railway (CN) who, in the 1960s, built a single-floor station with a flat roof west of the original station where the CN yard is now on the north side of the tracks.
The Tribute Communities Centre is owned by the city of Oshawa. On October 5, 2006, General Motors obtained the naming rights of the arena. The City originally selected Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) to manage the building but, after disappointing results in the first year and a half, MLSE requested in March 2008 that its contract be terminated. [2]