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to encourage an awareness of Canada's maritime heritage; To those ends, the Society publishes in association with the North American Society for Oceanic History a quarterly journal The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord and a quarterly newsletter Argonauta; holds an annual conference; and makes several awards: [2]
Humans have been present in the Canadian Maritime provinces for 10,600 years. In spite of being the first part of Canada to be settled by Europeans, research into the prehistory of the Maritimes did not become extensive until 1969. By the early 1980s, several full-time archaeologists focused on the region. [1]
In December 2011, the Society changed its name to Naval Marine Archive: The Canadian Collection by supplementary letters patent. [1] The society specializes in maritime heritage and history - steam and sail, naval, merchant and yachting, mostly Canada/US and Europe, mostly 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Significant events, units, places and people associated with Canadian naval history. ... Canadian Nautical Research Society;
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Maritime history of Canada" ... Canada (1891) Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916 ...
The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the Canadian Arctic. Opened in 1959 [ 1 ] as a Vancouver centennial project, it is located within Vanier Park just west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront. [ 2 ]
He was a founder and charter member of the Canadian Nautical Research Society. His deep knowledge and tireless contribution to many heritage organizations and made him "an icon of the maritime history fraternity in Canada and aboard." [5] He was invested into the Order of Canada in 1991 in recognition of his scholarly and public contributions. [6]
The Maritime Art Association (1935–1945) was a Canadian regional alliance of art clubs and societies, public schools, universities, social organizations, service and civic groups, artists, art students and art appreciators. As the first organization of its type in Canada, the Association offered Maritimers a more democratic and populist arena ...