The friendly train set

Besides having a lot of steam engines, boilers and stuff, the Pump House Steam Museum in Kingston is also home to the train set that was used on the Friendly Giant.

I, of course, am too young to have watched Bob Homme as the Friendly Giant with his sidekicks Jerome the giraffe and Rusty the rooster.
 

C&E Museum

A look at the Military Communications and Electronics (C&E) Museum in Kingston.

 

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Point Frederick

RMC is located on Point Frederick, a small peninsula at the point where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario and where the Rideau Canal System starts. The location has been an active military base since 1789 and was an important naval base during the War of 1812. Additional military fortifications near by are Fort Frontenac, originally established in 1673 across the Rideau River from Point Frederick and Ft Henry, constructed between 1832-36.

I visited one of the four Martello Towers that formed part of the defenses of Fort Frederick, which protected the Kingston Naval dockyard.

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RMC

Through these gates the young men and women of Canada enter the hallowed halls of brainwashing and compliance at the Royal Military College of Canada. Being a naval type I opted for a titch of Royal Roads, which was a west coast military college until the powers that be sold it for a buck.



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