The Elgin Military Museum is located in St. Thomas, Ontario. Its mandate is to preserve the local historical record of military service. From the cannonballs of 1812 to the caps of Afghanistan; from the pastures converted to runways to the skies over the Balkans; from the Battle of Lake Erie to the undersea depths of the Cold War, the Elgin Military Museum connects the dots through the lives of those who served and died in far away places and those who waited for them at home.