Churchill Oke flame-thrower

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Dennis Gelean

Vimy House, Hull Quebec, across the bridge from Ottawa.

Although the mailing address for the War Museum may have been given as Hull (or more recently Gatineau) Quebec, the War Museum and Vimy House are/were located in Ottawa. I suspect such a mailing address arose from the fact that the War Museum was been taken under the administration of the Museum of Civilization which was moved to Hull before municipal amalgamation several years ago when the whole region took on the name of the smaller munipality of Gatineau because Hull was excessively English. (Their web site this morning gave their address as: 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario.)

As a historical aside, Vimy House was originally built as the streetcar barn for Ottawa. It was visibly expanded at least once but kept the industrial character of the building that I thought suited the vehicles and other artifacts stored there. With the construction of the new War Museum, Vimy House was sold off to the private sector (I believe for use as a self-storage facility). Not all of the vehicles that were stored at Vimy House are visible at the new War Museum. There isn''t known (hidden) storage there, does anyone know where the remainder are stored? I would like to take a look at one of the trucks to find out if there are casting/parts #s I can find to aid in a puzzle I am trying to solve.