The final event of the year took place at the Canadian Tank Museum in Oshawa on Saturday, October 18, 2025.
It was a sold-out event for the finale of Tank Saturday’s for the season called Armageddon said Jeremy Blowers, Executive Director of the Canadian Tank Museum.
The event was learning about the vehicles by both the East and the West during the Cold War.
Some of the largest and heaviest tanks took part in the afternoon event with Blowers giving a in-depth description of each tank.
“It’s both exciting, the sights, sounds and smells of these vehicles, but we’re also going to tell the historical story of how, after the Second World War, the East and the West, NATO and the Soviet Union almost came to a devastating clash.”
The Canadian Tank Museum stated off in 1980 as The Ontario Regiment Ferret Club with a small amount of vehicles used for ceremonial purposes.
“The Canadian Tank Museum you see today is the culmination of 45 years of dedication and hard work (of 225) volunteers and members of our military community.”
Volunteers include teachers, engineers, currently serving and retired military.
Blowers said the museum currently has approximately 160 pieces of military equipment, with nearly all of them being operational.
“We are an official Canadian Armed Forces Museum, so a lot of the Canadian equipment is actually retired from the Canadian Armed Forces and was given to us from the government for safe keeping and educational purposes.”
There are actually two museums on site at the location of 1000 Stevenson Road North in Oshawa.
One is the Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum which has over 200 years of history and tells the local story of the people from Durham and military service.
There is also the Military Vehicle Conservation Centre which is the basis of the Canadian Tank Museum.
Blowers said that tank museums are vert rare throughout the world.
“It’s very rare in this country to see these things move and see this type of equipment.”
Blowers emphasizes strongly that they are not glorifying war in any way.
“We make it very clear that in no way is this glorifying war. It’s all about telling those stories, sparking peoples interests so they can dig deeper in our proud Canadian military history.”
“At the end of the day, it’s ultimately explaining about what our veterans went through during all of these different periods and honouring their service.”
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