10/02/2023 Canada, Columbia Britannica, (British Columbia), Isola di Vancouver (Vancouver Island), Colwood, Ford Rodd Hill
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law e enforcement agency for assistance”.
Roads around Fort Rodd Hill in Colwood were closed Sunday morning after a hiker discovered an unexploded two-inch mortar round. The military explosive ordnance disposal team and the RCMP arrived at the scene around noon, said Lieut. Pamela Hogan. Ocean Boulevard was closed from Fort Road Hill to the Colwood Pacific Activity Centre on Rosebank Road so the team could conduct a controlled explosion, she said. Fort Rodd Hill was established in the mid-1890s as a coastal defence bastion by the Royal Navy. It continued as a key part of Canada’s west coast defence network and as a military training installation during the First and Second World Wars. It was decommissioned as a military facility in 1956 and was handed over to Parks Canada in the early 1960s to establish it as a National Historic site. Prior to the installation’s decommissioning, the grounds of the site were swept extensively for unused military munitions.
Photo-Source: timescolonist.com
Mounties are reminding anyone who comes across explosives or live ammunition to call police for assistance and to not handle them yourself.
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