Gate guards/carriers on pedestals

[Hanno Spoelstra]

From the Surviving T16's thread:

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Who knows where this T16 survivor is located? I recall seeing photos of it before, I'm pretty sure it is in Canada. But where?

See more pics at http://www.primeportal.net/apc/daryl...ersal_carrier/

Thanks,
Hanno

[rob love]

Pretty sure I saw one at the Citadel in Montreal a couple years ago as well.

[universalgrl]

There's a T-16 sitting in a container on the same block as MIL arm in Edmonton. It was offered to me for $25K but I was on my to Afganistan and I was fresh out of 25k notes.
Roberta

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally Posted by universalgrl

There's a T-16 sitting in a container on the same block as MIL arm in Edmonton. It was offered to me for $25K but I was on my to Afganistan and I was fresh out of 25k notes.
Roberta

You're implying that if you were on your way back from Afghanistan then you would have a pocketful of 25k notes?

[universalgrl]

Yah I was going to, not coming back. The same person that showed me the T-16 also had a line on a lifeboy flamethrower that maybe was for sale in Calgary.
I also talked to a guy at the Reading D Day show in Pennsylvania 2009 about 6 carriers that were buried on the university of Calgary grounds, 3 had been pulled out and 3 still to be recovered.

No money, everything for sale!
Money, nothing for sale!
Roberta

[rob love]

That sounds strangely familiar to the 6 carriers that were in the ground on University of MB research station near the portage la prairie diversion. We removed the armor from two or three, and later pulled three out.

[maple_leaf_eh]

I can think of 2 carriers in Ottawa, and memories of another in St-Hubert.

There is one on the range road at Connaught Ranges. Likely one that Mike Calnan had a hand in installing. The Range COs over the past few postings have encouraged historic vehicles. There is a Sherman on the entrance road. A Lynx, a Cougar, a Universal Carrier, an Iltis, a C1 155 gun, a (US origin) M113, a ship's anchor and a T-33 jet.

There is another Carrier at the doors of the Cartier Square Drill Hall beside the Rideau Canal in downtown Ottawa. It is saddly rusting in place, and maybe lonely since the Governor General's Foot Guards' WWII Sherman was pinched for the War Museum. Maybe it is in a better place, but it is not where the last driver left it.

Finally, I remember a carrier on a short section of bridging inside the perimeter wire at the old Force Mobile Command headquarters in St-Hubert, Quebec. That would have been in '90 or '91. It might have been moved when the base was demilitarized. I use that word because the military still owns a lot of real estate and buildings, but not nearly as much as before. The married quarters for example are still in use, but the flightline side is all civilian owned now.

[super dave]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

From the Surviving T16's thread:

That one is sitting out in front of the legion in Fort Macleod AB

[super dave]

There is one on the base in Edmonton as well and I believe it still runs and drives.

[Hans Mulder]

The one at the Chilliwack museum isn't a monument...it is privately owned and runs and drives.

[rob love]

2VP had one parked outside their main building here in Shilo, but it has moved in the last year. Not sure if it is inside being worked on. They used to use it for the odd parade. I have driven it a time or two myself, including taking it off the truck when it returned from Germany back in 88.

[Marc Montgomery]

there was a display UC sitting inside the base at Kingston, On..but its really only a shell, and rusting, no engine. not even the semblance of an engine.. the space behind the driver just a big square hole looking like exactly like the back of a pickup. Last time I saw it, was several years ago, but I presume its still there (?)

[Robin Craig]

yes Mark, it is still there, just up the road from the CF5 and the Centurion



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