[1] The Museum is focused on a specific aspect of Canadian military history: the Citizen Soldier (the Militiaman and Reservist) at peace and at war.

[4] The two combined their efforts and collections to form the Swords and Ploughshares Museum so that they could display their artifacts and further public knowledge of Canadian military history.

Land was purchased south of Kars, Ontario in the late 1980s with construction of a steel building to house the vehicles following in the summer of 1991.

Colonel Michael David Calnan, CD served as the Honorary Chairman of the Museum from its founding in 1987 until he died in 2018.

A brief interview and video segment on the Museum was featured in the December 15th, 2008 edition of the Canadian Army News.