Skating past history . . .

Hard to believe, but they're closing the Canadian Air and Space Museum to build an ice rink.

Well, four ice rinks, actually.

The Toronto museum has had some hard times recently, but is a wonderful repository for WW II (and other aviation) history. Now it may be history. they were evicted and given six months to move on.

One story here. Another here.  (I haven't been able to find recent updates.) Among the museum's assets is a very pretty Lancaster, but what's probably more important are the literally thousands of smaller images and items that make up the real fabric of history. Cool planes get us through the doors; the other items teach us.

The Canadian air force's role in World War II is not well known, even inside Canada. I'm not the one to be explaining it, but this sure isn't going to help.