MILITARY MUSEUM TIMELINE

• 2005 – Board of directors is formed to collect military artifacts in hopes of opening a military museum • July 2006 – The Pictou County Military Museum opens its doors in the Town of New Glasgow. • 2008 – The Museum moves to the Town of Westville. • 2009 – The First Special Services Forces (Devil’s Brigade) members were invited to the Museum where over 100 people came out to meet them. • 2010 – The museum procured a M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier and C1 Howitzer Cannon from the Canadian and United States governments. • 2011 – The First Canadian Veteran’s and Military Awareness Day was hosted in Westville. • 2013 – Received the complete set of Military Challenge Coins of the Afghanistan War. Designer Rod MacLean, from Calgary Alberta, and owner of International Coins, donated all the coins he produces for the Canadian Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The museum is the only one in the world that has the complete collection. • 2015 – Built a Veterans Memorial Room at Stellarton Legion with artifacts from the Museum.