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Peterborough, Ont.’s Canadian Canoe Museum has Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s buckskin jacket. Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum has his leather sandals.

But it’s only at a private museum in B.C.’s interior where, owners say, you can gaze upon the most infamous Trudeau artifact of all: the restored railcar from which the 15th prime minister flipped the bird to B.C. protesters in 1982.

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The car is at Three Valley Lake Chateau, a resort just down the road from Craigellachie, site of the last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway.

There, in the resort’s Railway Roundhouse, visitors can sample what the museum says is another piece of Canadian railway history.

Guests can even pose next to a cardboard cutout of Trudeau where, naturally, they usually end up flipping friends the finger.

“We renovated the interior by putting in new carpet, paint and adding display items, bedding and dishes,” said Diana Bostock, a third-generation owner of Three Valley Lake Chateau, writing in an email to the National Post.