New Sarum, Ontario

[David Dunlop]

Colin Alford's research on the Shilo T-16 caught my attention in so far as this mystery destination for the shipment of T-16's in 1945 Southern Ontario, seemed like a really out of the way place.

If you Google it in todays world, it is really nothing more than a point on the map, just East of St, Thomas, Ontario. However, immediately West of New Sarum sits the St. Thomas Municipal Airport. The layout of this airport suggests it just might have been a wartime BCATP Station of some sort that has been successfully repurposed postwar. Seems to be a rail line running just North of the highway through New Sarum as well.

If the municipal airport started out as a BCAPT Station, by wars end was it perhaps a clearing point for military goods, and where these carriers ended up in New Sarum?

David