[Bob Carriere]

HI Robin

There was a second Saracen at one time on the St Laurent rear compound.....strangely both middle wheel assembly/suspension had been removed although present nearby...... the inside, from the back door, was totally empty of any testing/radar equipment....... there was no top side antenna on that one....... and not far away was the original Bras D'Or hydrofoil slowly rotting away under multilayers of decaying tarps.

Security in the early 1970 was non existent....... the old Morrison Lamothe bread plant, which later became the Museum, was open to numerous dead end rail lines which were not gated.

Back then Osgoode had a yard with half a dozen Mosquitoes with the fuselage spine broken in two ...... Crown asset used a heavy steel plate suspended from a crane and let her drop...... cases of RR engines....... which were worthless due to their aluminum content that was cheap back then... a stack of engine exhaust manifold were rescued and eventually shipped to Australia.....then there was the junk yard in Kemptville which had two Churchill tanks.... bridge layers for seawalls.... one of which is at the CWM..... the other one was cut up for scrap......and tons of USA multifuel Coleman double ended aircraft tugs.... both tanks were complete with full Bedford engine packs and internal firing stations........

....and then you still had the whole Quebec side of the river with more yards to explore.... some were almost downtown.

Cheers