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Location Category ID: 8000 Added to Database: May 2008 Last Edited: 8 March 2014 Address: 27 Ram Street, Borden, L0M 1C0 (Physical) P.O. Box 1000, Station Main, Borden, L0M 1C0 (Postal) Telephone: 705-423 3531 Email: beaton.sl [at] forces.gc.ca (Replace [at] with @) Opening Times: 0900-1200 and 1300-1500 weekdays, 1300 to 1600 weekends. Closed Mondays or the day following a long weekend, Christmas week and Easter. Free admission. Official Website: Base Borden Military Museum Other Links: The Star: Borden Mrclark Gallery GRB_Ott Gallery YouTube Wikipedia: Borden Museum Canadian Encylopedia: Worthington Wikipedia: Worthington Latitude, Longitude: 44.28932918 , -79.89395141 Location Accuracy: 7 Tanks Previously Here: 1: Panther Tank - Canadian War Museum, LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Until 2005) 2: M1917 Six-Ton Light Tank - Canadian War Museum, LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Training 1940 – ca 1943) The Base Borden Military Museum is one of Canada’s largest military museums. The Museum holds a significant collection of WWI, WWII and post-war armoured vehicles, trucks, and aircraft. The Museum tells the story of Camp Borden and the various Schools, Corps and Branches that have their heritage vested at Base Borden. The museum complex consists of several buildings and a memorial park. The main Museum building, on the corner of Dieppe and Waterloo Roads, is a renovated WWII Armoured Corps’ Officers’ Mess. This building details the history of Borden. Major General Worthington Memorial Park, commonly referred to as “Tank Park”, contains some armoured vehicles and artillery pieces from Canada, United States and England, as well as other countries from around the world. These date from WWI to modern Soviet armoured vehicles. Major General Worthington Park, named for the Father of the Armoured Corps is consecrated ground containing two graves and four cenotaphs. It is a quiet area of reflection with benches provided for visitor comfort. (Source: Borden.forces.gc.ca). Frederic Franklin “Worthy” Worthington was an army officer, engineer, and adventurer. He was born at Peterhead, Scotland, on 14 Sep 1889. Orphaned at 11, he became the ward of a half-brother (later murdered by Villista irregulars) in Mexico, later going to sea and, as a “sailor of fortune”, briefly commanding the tiny Nicaraguan navy in 1907. His earlier life in Mexico led him to sympathize with the ideals of Francisco Madero, for whose cause he fought during the revolution. At the start of WWI, he joined the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade and was promoted to battery commander in France. He was awarded the Military Medal for actions near Vimy Ridge, on 6 January 1917, for holding his position during a German advance. He was later known to say that until Vimy Ridge he really never felt Canadian, but after Vimy Ridge never felt he was anything but a Canadian. He joined the peacetime Permanent Force of the Armed Forces, developing his doctrine of firepower plus mobility. In WWII, Maj-Gen Worthington founded the Canadian Armoured Corps. Later he was selected to organize, command and take overseas both the 1st Army Tank Brigade and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. In 1944, he returned to command Camp Borden, training replacements for the Armoured Corps and the Infantry, as well as the Royal Army Service Corps and the Canadian Provost Corps. Resigning his commission in 1947, he was appointed the first civil defence co-ordinator, a position which he held until 1957, stepping down to enter the business community. After Worthington’s death in Ottawa on 8 December 1967 he was buried at Canadian Forces Base Borden according to his wishes. His wife was eventually buried beside him. (Source: Canadian Encylopedia, Wikipedia, Borden.forces.gc.ca). The Borden military museum was established in the 1990s. In June 2007 a new main building for the museum complex was opened. It has a large hangar for the display of historic military vehicles; unfortunately the interior lighting is dark with a green hue, making photography difficult. The museum has a gift shop that is open during regular weekday hours only.

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September 2010 1: M113 C&R Carrier Taken: 19 September 2010 Contributor: A. Adams Location Photo ID: 868 Added: 7 March 2013 Views: 375 Has Priority: 0
August 2008 2: Worthington Park Memorial Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 849 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 207 Has Priority: 20		3: Major General Worthington Memorial Park Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 850 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 224 Has Priority: 0		4: Worthington Park map Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 851 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 245 Has Priority: 0
5: Major General Worthington's grave site Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 852 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 221 Has Priority: 0		6: Soviet KMT mine plough Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 853 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 1328 Has Priority: 0		7: Museum entrance Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 854 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 235 Has Priority: 0
8: Armoured vehicle display inside museum building Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 855 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 438 Has Priority: 0		9: Armoured vehicle display inside museum building Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 856 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 171 Has Priority: 0		10: Military vehicle display inside museum building Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 857 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 218 Has Priority: 0
11: Military vehicle display inside museum building Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 858 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 159 Has Priority: 0		12: Museum display room Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 859 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 306 Has Priority: 0		13: M113 Lynx C&R carrier Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 860 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 224 Has Priority: 0
14: Universal carrier Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 861 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 206 Has Priority: 0		15: Canadian prototype Bobcat carrier Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 862 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 210 Has Priority: 0		16: Over-snow carrier Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 863 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 196 Has Priority: 0
17: Cambrai Road entrance to CFB Borden Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 864 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 214 Has Priority: 0		18: M113 Lynx C&R carrier displayed beside Dieppe Road Taken: 23 August 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 865 Added: 2 March 2013 Views: 261 Has Priority: 0
July 2007 19: Vehicle display in museum hangar Taken: 21 July 2007 Contributor: Balcer Location Photo ID: 866 Added: 7 March 2013 Views: 342 Has Priority: 0
2001 20: Tank Park Taken: 2001 (Estimated) Contributor: Borden Website Location Photo ID: 867 Added: 7 March 2013 Views: 314 Has Priority: 0

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