The Royal Canadian Regiment
The RCR Museum is located in the west wing of Wolseley Barracks, 701 Oxford Str E, London, ON.
To access the site, please follow directions here or check our website for more information.
Wolseley Barracks, a designated national historic site, was built between 1886 and 1888. Early sources make little mention of a museum within the premises, yet the idea clearly sprung in the years following the demobilization after the First World War (1919 to 1924), when regimental sources recognize the importance of “assembling the regimental history.” The efforts of organizing a regimental museum at Wolseley Barracks came to a full stop at the outbreak of the Second World War.
Once the conflict was over, more exactly in fall 1947, the museum was coming to an “opening stage”, but only in 1953 a permanent location was assigned, nothing less than the 2nd floor of the Barracks’ west wing, above the archway entrance, which coincides with the “museum room” from the 1886 floor plans.
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Victoria Barracks, Building Y-101
PO Box 9999, Station Main
Petawawa, ON K8H 2X3
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