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The two nearly identically sized ships present a contrast in shipbuilding eras and offer an ironic comparison as Sackville is a warship which became a part-time hydrographic ship and Acadia is a hydrographic ship which became a part-time warship. Acadia is the only known vessel still afloat to have survived the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
The Expulsion of the Acadians [b] was the forced removal [c] of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain.It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine.
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 ...
Cornelius Andreson - A Dutchman who, like Guedry, sailed from Acadia and was subsequently tried for piracy against the English. Admiralty court, the venue in which Guedry and his associates were tried. King Philip’s War, a predecessor to Dummer’s War and another in a series of English/native conflicts in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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.
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.
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.
Noel Doiron also is the namesake of the village of Noel in Hants County, Nova Scotia. [1] Jacques Girrard was a priest who also sailed on the fatal voyage. Girrard had been the parish priest for Noel Doiron and other Acadians who lived on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). He was one of the few who survived the sinking of Duke William. [6]