File:Musée Militaire de Trois-Rivières (19433183733).jpg
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On the door of this building at 574 Rue Saint François Xavier are the words Manège General Jean Victor Allard CC, CBE, DSO, GOQ, ED, CD. The acronym GOQ stands for grand officier l'ordre national du Québec. A Manège, by most definitions, is a either a riding school or a merry-go-round. The latter seems highly unlikely so one would be forgiven for thinking that the General ran a riding school in Trois-Rivières in his retirement and it it was here. But I went as far round the building as I could and concluded that there was insufficient room for a riding school. So it's a mystery awaiting solution. Whether or not Jean Victor Allard ran a riding school here, it's now the museum of the 12th Armoured Regiment of Canada that was founded in 1871. It features exhibits of the military history of Trois-Rivières, Canada and elsewhere in the world. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Victor_Allard" rel="nofollow">Jean Victor Allard</a> (1913-1996) was an accomplished officer in the Canadian Army who served with distinction in WWII. He became the first French Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest position in the Canadian forces and was also the first to hold the rank of general. Though born in Nicolet, a suburb of Québec, he spent his later child and retirement in Trois-Rivières and it was, in his own words, "a city to which I have been attached since childhood" [The memoirs of General Jean V. Allard, 1988]. The tanks outside certainly give the building a military aura. |
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| Source | Musée Militaire de Trois-Rivières |
| Author | Robert Cutts from Bristol, England, UK |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Robert Cutts at https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/19433183733 (archive). It was reviewed on 25 May 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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