HMCS Ojibwa

A 90-metre Oberon-class submarine sitting on the grass on the east bank of Otter Creek. The Ojibwa served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1965 to 1998, a Cold War hunter-killer designed to disappear into the deep Atlantic for weeks at a time. She was towed and dragged to Port Burwell in 2012 to become the centrepiece of the Elgin Military Museum's outdoor collection.

Guided tours take you through the entire pressure hull — torpedo rooms, control room, sonar room, galley, the impossibly narrow officers' wardroom. The crew quarters are an eye-opener: 70 sailors sharing 60 bunks (the rest "hot-bunked" between shifts). Open daily from May to October; book ahead on summer weekends.

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The Ojibwa spent her active life trailing Soviet submarines under the Arctic ice. In 2012, she was barged across Lake Ontario, up the Welland Canal, and then dragged up the bank at Port Burwell on a custom railway over the course of three days — a piece of slow-motion theatre that drew thousands of spectators to a town that doesn't usually see traffic.

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