HMCS Scotian is a Royal Canadian Navy Reserve Division (NRD) located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dubbed a stone frigate, HMCS Scotian is a land-based naval...
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CFB Halifax (redirect from HMCS Trinity)
Albro and one at Newport Corners. The barracks building that became HMCS Scotian was erected during the war. In 1948, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic...
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reserve divisions: HMCS Scotian; HMCS Queen Charlotte; HMCS Queen; HMCS Hunter; HMCS Hochelaga; HMCS Cataraqui; HMCS Hunter; HMCS Burlington. Christening...
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operation of all 24 NRDs across Canada. Co-located with NAVRESHQ is NRD HMCS Montcalm, Naval Fleet School (Quebec) (NFS(Q)) and the Naval Museum of Quebec...
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Charlotte HMCS Royal Roads HMCS St. Hyacinthe HMCS Scotian HMCS Shelburne HMCS Somers Isles HMCS Stadacona HMCS Star HMCS Tecumseh HMCS Unicorn HMCS Venture...
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HMCS Malahat is a Royal Canadian Navy Reserve Division (NRD) located in Victoria, British Columbia. Dubbed a stone frigate, HMCS Malahat is a land-based...
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HMCS Radisson, in Trois-Rivières HMCS Scotian, in Halifax HMCS Star, in Hamilton HMCS Tecumseh, in Calgary HMCS Unicorn, in Saskatoon HMCS York, in Toronto (activated...
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Capitol Theatre, the former College Street School, and the gymnasiums of HMCS Scotian and St. Patrick's High School. In 1966, TAG purchased and renovated a...
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Halifax as a training ship and tender to the naval reserve division HMCS Scotian in February. The ship was used for bathythermographic testing in St....
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Pier 2 as an immigration shed. Today Pier 2's location is occupied by HMCS Scotian — whose address is 2111 Upper Water St, Halifax, Nova Scotia — the naval...
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Regiment Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) HMCS Calgary 4 Wing Cold Lake: 11 May 1999. HMCS Tecumseh 41 Signal Regiment 14 (Calgary) Service Battalion:...
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Primary Reserves in 1986 when he was 17 as a cook at HMCS Carleton. He transferred to HMCS Scotian in Halifax while attending Dalhousie University. Hopper...
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In 1952, the ship was assigned to Sydney, Nova Scotia as tender to HMCS Scotian and was used for seasonal training exercises on the Great Lakes in 1954...
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Antarctica Canso (crater), a crater on Mars, named after the Nova Scotian town HMCS Canso, a Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper in commission from 1942 to...
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Lawrence being formed between RCN facilities at HMCS Chaleur II in Quebec City, HMCS Fort Ramsay in Gaspé, and HMCS Protector in Sydney. Royal Canadian Air Force...
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in the Naval Reserve through a Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) at HMCS Donnacona. Originally joined as a Diesel Mechanic she later attended Junior...
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nineteenth centuries the area began to see large numbers of Black Nova Scotian families settle into the Pinewoods area (Now the north end of Kentville...
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Llewellyn-class minesweeper (redirect from HMCS Llewellyn)
Saint John, New Brunswick associated with the naval reserve division HMCS Scotian, primarily used for training. That summer, the ship made a tour of Newfoundland...
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J. (1867). Nova Scotian Institute of Science. 1867. Retrieved September 4, 2016. "Meteorological register, 1864" (PDF). Nova Scotian Institute of Science...
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of Steam gallery includes a special display on Samuel Cunard, the Nova Scotian who created the Cunard Line. The restored 1880s Robertson building includes...
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William Hall (VC) (category Black Nova Scotians)
(28 April 1827 – 27 August 1904) was the first Black person, first Nova Scotian, and the third Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross due to his actions...
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CSS Acadia (redirect from HMCS Acadia (1917))
vessel, replacing the CGS prefix with His Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS), thus becoming HMCS Acadia. Though intended for patrol, the vessel's slow speed made...
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Audrey Dear Hesson (category Black Nova Scotians)
in the exhibition curated by David Woods called Discovery: African Nova Scotian Art Pioneers. Hesson was born and grew up in Halifax's north end. In grade...
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Second World War, the Royal Canadian Navy named a Flower-class corvette HMCS Amherst. In 2002, the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre opened on the...
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streets. By nightfall, a dozen trains had reached Halifax from the Nova Scotian towns of Truro, Kentville, Amherst, Stellarton, Pictou, and Sydney and...
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the Halifax Provisional Battalion. In 1898 a plaque was created for Nova Scotian Clonard Keating of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment who died in...
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Transferred to RNoN. Chipana; ex-HMCS Strathroy, purchased from Canada 1946, used as survey ship, decommissioned 1966. Casma; ex-HMCS Stellarton, purchased from...
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Halifax Railway Station. The Halifax Railway Station adjoins the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, a former railway hotel that was built and owned by Canadian National...
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prison at Rockhead and major defence installations such as HMC Dockyard and Stadacona (formerly HMCS Stadacona and Wellington Barracks, now part of CFB Halifax)...
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Bluenose II (1963). The name Bluenose originated as a nickname for Nova Scotians from as early as the late 18th century. Bluenose was designed by William...
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