Niagara Military Heritage Centre

[Edwin Wand]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

The Niagara-on-the-Lake museum might have competition. At work today I was asked if I knew of any land survey firm willing to donate their services for a new military museum. At first I thought it had to be this one but no, it's one they are planning adjacent to the Canada Warplane Heritage museum in Hamilton (the one the Minarski Lancaster flies out of). If true there will be two new military museums within 50 miles of each other.

Don't forget there is also the
"Niagara Military Museum, Niagara's Tri-Service Museum"

It is housed in the former DND Niagara Falls Armoury which is now owned by the city of Niagara Falls.
https://www.facebook.com/Niagara.Mil...um.the.armoury

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Originally Posted by Edwin Wand

Don't forget there is also the
"Niagara Military Museum, Niagara's Tri-Service Museum"

It is housed in the former DND Niagara Falls Armoury which is now owned by the city of Niagara Falls.
https://www.facebook.com/Niagara.Mil...um.the.armoury

What unit would have used that Armoury before it became city property? Something shut down in the spasms of closures and amalgamations in the 1960's?

[Edwin Wand]

D Company of the Lincoln and Welland Regt. was the last military unit located here. Today, it houses the Niagara Military Museum and on part of the second floor an army cadet corps.

Around the time this building was declared surplus, the L&W Regt. also closed detachments/Companies in Fort Erie, Port Colborne, Welland, Niagara on the Lake and Grimsby. Interestingly, the Regiment recently moved a company to Welland.

[Robert Bergeron]

Guys,

I am jealous of all the nice military Museums you guys have in Ontario. There seems to be serious and genuine interest for our military past and present there. I hope to visit again the Niagara soon. I was there two years ago on a War of 1812 battlefield tour with my Staff College collegues .We have an interesting military history.All that we need to do is to get people interested in it.

Very nice guys , very nice , well done.

Robert

[Marc Montgomery]

I remember there was a German artillery piece which had been captured in WWI which sat for years out front. I remember it had very interesting spoked wheels, a bit more complicated than typical in that they did not radiate directly out from the hub, but at a slight angle backwards, ie, not 90 degrees from the axle, but perhaps 80 or 110 degree depending how you looked at it..
someone several years ago swiped one of the wheels and I think it was eventually replaced with a "standard" type of spoke arrangement.. a shame really.. Why on earth would someone swipe a big wheel like that?????

HMM just checked Google street view..artillery piece still there.. but minus the wheel..so not replaced i guess.. what a stupid theft..

[Bob Carriere]

Interestink you vould reemember such an insignificant item or incident !!!!!!

Where were you the night the wheel was removed........? vould you have one for sale????

Chief Inspector A. Noneemous

[Edwin Wand]

Marc
I think the German gun you are talking about is the one in front of the former CF Armoury on Victoria St. in Niagara Falls. It is indeed a WW1 German Gun and has but one wheel. The other wheel which may well be a replacement has recently been removed for restoration. A fund raising campaign is underway to raise sufficient funds to restore the whole gun. The good news is that most of the money needed has been obtained.

But there is another German gun in the area. It started life in Canada as part of a memorial in Queenston which is just at the foot of Queenston Heights, a War of 1812 Battle Site. This gun was deemed to a traffic hazard and was relocated to a site in front of Butler's Barrack on the former military lands once know as Camp Niagara. It was recently placed into indoor storage so it could be restored once enough money was raised.

[Stefan Wieclawek]

Originally Posted by Edwin Wand

D Company of the Lincoln and Welland Regt. was the last military unit located here. Today, it houses the Niagara Military Museum and on part of the second floor an army cadet corps.

Around the time this building was declared surplus, the L&W Regt. also closed detachments/Companies in Fort Erie, Port Colborne, Welland, Niagara on the Lake and Grimsby. Interestingly, the Regiment recently moved a company to Welland.

FYI, The 10th Battery of the 56th Field Artillery Regiment was the last unit to vacate the Victoria Street Armoury, not the Lincoln & Welland Regiment.