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CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.. Acadia served Royal Canadian Navy for 56 years from 1913 to 1969, charting the coastline of almost every part of Eastern Canada including pioneering surveys of Hudson Bay.
Relief efforts began almost immediately, and hospitals quickly became full. Rescue trains began arriving the day of the explosion from across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick while other trains from central Canada and the Northeastern United States were impeded by blizzards. Construction of temporary shelters to house the many people left homeless ...
Royal Nova Scotia Volunteers: 1775–1783: King's Orange Rangers: 1776–1783: 1st Field Artillery: from 1791: Royal Nova Scotia: 1793–1802: Nova Scotia Fencibles: 1803–1816: Halifax Rifles: from 1860: Princess Louise Fusiliers: from 1867: 78th Highland: 1869–1871: Cape Breton Highlanders: from 1871: Nova Scotia Rifles: 1914–1919: No. 2 ...
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.. The museum is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada with a collection of over 30,000 artifacts including 70 small craft and a steamship: the CSS Acadia, a 180-foot steam-powered hydrographic survey ship launched in 1913.
Port Royal (1605–1713) was a historic settlement based around the upper Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia, Canada, [1] and the predecessor of the modern town of Annapolis Royal. It was the first successful attempt by Europeans to establish a permanent settlement in what is today known as Canada. [ 2 ]
Barque Noel, Halifax Graving Yard, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1890), Barque made in the Osmond O'Brien Shipyard, Noel, Nova Scotia. During World War I, the Halifax Graving Dock Company's facilities on the Halifax side of the harbour were badly damaged by the December 6, 1917 Halifax Explosion, which occurred 300 m (980 ft) north of the graving dock.
Joseph Decoy, a ship's captain from Cape Breton Island, traded in Boston during the 1720s. On one of the trips, his son accompanied him, who was detained in Boston for reasons unknown. Decoy returned north without his son and stopped and shared his news with friends at the Acadian port town of Merliguesh (now Lunenburg, Nova Scotia).
Acadia is the name the French Colonials gave to Nova Scotia prior to British Rule. [1] CSTC HMCS Acadia (II) was a cadet summer training centre operated by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets that had used the unit name Acadia from 1956–2019. It was located at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.