Gate guards/carriers on pedestals

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I can think of 2 carriers in Ottawa, and memories of another in St-Hubert.

There is one on the range road at Connaught Ranges. Likely one that Mike Calnan had a hand in installing. The Range COs over the past few postings have encouraged historic vehicles. There is a Sherman on the entrance road. A Lynx, a Cougar, a Universal Carrier, an Iltis, a C1 155 gun, a (US origin) M113, a ship's anchor and a T-33 jet.

There is another Carrier at the doors of the Cartier Square Drill Hall beside the Rideau Canal in downtown Ottawa. It is saddly rusting in place, and maybe lonely since the Governor General's Foot Guards' WWII Sherman was pinched for the War Museum. Maybe it is in a better place, but it is not where the last driver left it.

Finally, I remember a carrier on a short section of bridging inside the perimeter wire at the old Force Mobile Command headquarters in St-Hubert, Quebec. That would have been in '90 or '91. It might have been moved when the base was demilitarized. I use that word because the military still owns a lot of real estate and buildings, but not nearly as much as before. The married quarters for example are still in use, but the flightline side is all civilian owned now.