Canadian Army Central Ordnance Depots

[David Dunlop]

Just revisiting this thread as another question came to mind.

Back in the 1970's, when restoring several CMP's and early M-Series vehicles, I agree with Brian Asbury that the bulk, if not all vehicle related parts in NOS status seemed to come out of COD London, Ontario.

At the same point in time, while trying to complete small arms displays for the various vehicles, spare STEN and Enfield parts seemed to be coming from stocks formerly held at a COD in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Today, while working on wartime wireless sets and related signals equipment, most NOS packaging shows up coming from 25 COD in Montreal.

So the new question is whether each COD across Canada was specialized in the ordnance for which they held stock, or did each hold a standard supply of all available items that might be required by the Military Districts/areas they supported?

If the latter situation was the original norm within the supply system, then perhaps the three situations noted above are merely a reflection of the overall supply system shrinking over time with surviving CODs becoming 'specialized' as a result.


David