The Great Manitoba Carrier Recovery

[David Dunlop]

Kevin.

The information I obtained from the surplus dealer who bought them from Crown Assets and sold them to the Lodge, was he sold them a dozen. This was out of a lot of close to 50 he had purchased in Lloydminster. It was a short road trip from his place to the waiting trench as the Lodge. Once in the trench, a number of useful bits were scavenged from the carriers and under the dirt they went.

The length of our magnetic survey suggested 8 vehicles were present in the trench. I believe we visually confirmed the existence of the 7th carrier and were very certain of another immediately behind it, but their location was too close to the boat launch site and we did not want to risk damage to that facility at all. So I recall 6 came out. One more had been used to putter about the lodge for many years but had long before been scrapped. That left the three our front end loader driver told us were buried under the nearby highway. Some of the guys from Prairie Command who attended the entire excavation probably have additional photos of how the work progressed.

David