Edmundston needs a home for it's Lancaster

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

More news on another Lancaster, FM100:

https://www.peninsulanewsreview.com/...aster-bombers/

I know that Lanc well. When it was on its plinth in Toronto you could just touch the tail wheel. In the same park was a 25 pdr, an M4A3E8 Sherman and a 155 mm gun. At the edge of the park along the Toronto waterfront was HMCS Haida. All long gone now. Such a display of military might was just not on for 'progressive' Toronto.

One story I can share: in the mid 1980's, when it was suffering from neglect, a local Air Cadet squadron was given permission to clean it up. On the appointed day the smartly turned out cadets scrambled up the ladders that had been brought and a city worker unlocked the padlock on the rear door. Peeking inside, the floor was covered with drug needles and used condoms. Seems somebody and their friends had found a way in and it had become their party place. The city worker replaced the padlock and the disappointed cadets went home.