Importing Armor?

[Colin Macgregor Stevens]

Some of the British armoured vehicles used at Suffield Alberta have made it out into collector and museum hands.

The British Columbia Regiment in Vancouver has a restored Ferret with turret, ex-UK forces.
Ashton Armoury Museum in Victoria BC also has one. Theirs came in a trade from a collector, and although I rode in it, I am not sure where he got it from.
Another Ferret with a turret has recently been bought by a BC colelctor from Alan Kerr in Edmonton. It sat in front of his shop for a decade.

Before the Falklands War I spotted and photographed trainloads of British armoured vehicles (Ferrets with red turrets - for safety on the live firing ranges, tanks and APCs) on flatcars at the waterfront in Vancouver, BC. They were apparently being loaded onto a British ship to be returned to the UK.

The ship is now very interesting as it was the Sir Galahad, which was later bombed and lost with great loss of life as the ship's captain had apparently delayed the unloading of the soldiers on board in the Falklands - leaving them a sitting duck for the Argies.