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I found 2 Canadian barrels (one complete with it's history book) at my favorite scrapyard back in the fall. One even had it's history book with it, which showed it was in-inspected and serviceable back in 84. Both were sold as scrap soon after. I had to trade one of the barrels for a cup. There are plenty of barrel reproductions on ebay, I believe ordnance.com does a good repro with excellent markings for around the $600 mark including the cup. It is one of the few things he will ship internationally.

There is the small baseplate (M-1) which would be for the mortar without bipod. Sarco had them, Canadian manufacture and brand new in the grease. But I think they do a repro M2 mortar now and have added the Cdn M-1 baseplates onto those, and no longer list them separately.

Collectors source had the whole Canadian 60mm mortar setups available for years. Of course, but the time I decided to buy one, I missed them by a couple weeks. I was able to get a bipod from them, but it is for the brandt rather than the 60. It will have to do for now.

Only thing I am looking for now is a Canadian M4 sight, or else (dare I hope) a C2 sight. The latter is fairly rare out of the service. The M4 CDN sights are around, so one will come my way eventually. And of course I'll need to pick up more inert rounds for it. All I have at present is the solid dummy round.

When the Cdn army got rid of the majority of the M19s a few years ago (to the lament of the infantry) they sent a bunch through a contractor for inspection and forwarded them to the various museums. We have one at work, complete with it's chest and all the EIS. They also sent out a Subcaliber kit. We have placed the mortar on display in the main museum, but the subcal kit remains in storage.

Below are photos of my mortar. and the nomenclature on the barrel.