Base Borden Military Museum is a military museum located on the grounds of
CFB Borden
Canadian Forces Base Borden (also CFB Borden, French: Base des Forces canadiennes Borden or BFC Borden), formerly RCAF Station Borden, is a large Canadian Forces base located in Ontario. The historic birthplace of the Royal Canadian Air Force, C ...
, in Borden, Ontario, Canada. Combining four separate museums, it has numerous items, equipment and vehicles from all eras of Canadian military history, including a large number of historic armored vehicles and aircraft displayed outside in the Major-General
F. F. Worthington Memorial Park and around the base.
The museum is located about 100 km north of
Toronto, Ontario
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. The museum, which combines all the separate museums at the base, was established in the 1990s.
In June 2007 a new main building for the museum complex was opened, with a large hangar for the display of historic military vehicles. The museum complex consists of several buildings and a memorial park.
The Museum is affiliated with:
CMA,
CHIN
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OMMC and
Virtual Museum of Canada
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Administered by the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) ...
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Photos
Image:Cf101 borden 1.jpg , Canadian CF-101 Voodoo
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interceptor
Image:Cf-116 CFB Borden.jpg , Canadian CF-116 fighter
Image:Ram cfb borden 2.JPG , Canadian Ram tank
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Image:Hetzer cfb borden 1.JPG , German Hetzer tank destroyer
The ''Jagdpanzer'' 38 ( Sd.Kfz. 138/2), originally the leichter Panzerjäger 38(t), known mostly post-war as ''Hetzer'', was a German light tank destroyer of the Second World War based on a modified Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) chassis.
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Image:M4a4 flail cfb borden 2.JPG , Crab flail tank
Hobart's Funnies is the nickname given to a number of specialist armoured fighting vehicles derived from tanks operated during the Second World War by units of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by specialists from the Royal En ...
Image:Leopard1 cfb borden 2.JPG , German Leopard 1 tank (A4 model, not a Canadian Leopard C1)
Image:T72 cfb borden 1.JPG , Soviet T-72 tank
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Image:PaK 36r cfb borden 1.jpg , German Pak 36(r) antitank gun
Image:47 mm APX CFB Borden 2.jpg, 47 mm APX anti-tank gun
Image:T-34-85 Base Borden Military Museum.jpg, T-34-85
Image:T-55 Base Borden front.jpg , T-55
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Image:Whippet tank Base Borden Military Museum 3.jpg, Whippet
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See also
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Organization of Military Museums of Canada The Organization of Military Museums of Canada is a national organization for the promotion of military museums in Canada.
The OMMC was established in 1967 by a group of military museums, historians, and military history enthusiasts. It has over 40 ...
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Elgin Military Museum
The Elgin Military Museum is a privately-owned, not-for-profit local museum in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1982 to preserve and commemorate the contributions of Elgin County to broader Canadian military history, the Museum includes ...
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Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The museum is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada with a collection o ...
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National Air Force Museum of Canada
The National Air Force Museum of Canada is an aviation museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is located on the west side of CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ontario.
The museum is a permanent archive which c ...
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The Military Museums
The Military Museums is a reorganization of the former Museum of the Regiments in Calgary, Alberta, announced by Sophie, Countess of Wessex, on June 3, 2006. The new museum comprises the former Museum of the Regiments as well as the relocated Nav ...
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The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum
The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Museum is a military museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The museum located at the Minto Armoury is dedicated to Manitoba's famous Scottish regiment, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, which was first raise ...
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Virtual Museum of Canada
The Digital Museums Canada (DMC; , ''MNC'') is a funding program in Canada "dedicated to online projects by the museum and heritage community," helping organizations to build digital capacity.
Administered by the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) ...
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Organization of Military Museums of Canada The Organization of Military Museums of Canada is a national organization for the promotion of military museums in Canada.
The OMMC was established in 1967 by a group of military museums, historians, and military history enthusiasts. It has over 40 ...
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Military history of Canada
The military history of Canada comprises hundreds of years of armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, and interventions by the Canadian Forces, Canadian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide. For thousands of years, t ...
References
External links
Borden Military MuseumDescription of "Air Museum" in Borden, part of BMMM, from www.airforce.gc.caToronto Star article about the reopening of the museum
Military and war museums in Canada
Tank museums
Museums in Simcoe County
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