Naval Museum of Halifax (formerly the Maritime Command Museum) is a Canadian Forces museum located at CFB Halifax in the former official residence of...
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Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Halifax is Canada's east coast naval base and home port to the Royal Canadian Navy Atlantic fleet, known as Canadian Fleet Atlantic...
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1913. The museum was founded in 1948. It was first known as the Maritime Museum of Canada and located at HMC Dockyard, the naval base on Halifax Harbour...
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Museums Africville Museum Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Naval Museum of Halifax Thomas McCulloch Museum Museum...
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Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax was a Royal Navy base in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Established in 1759, the Halifax Yard served as the headquarters for the...
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1917 there was a growing naval fleet in Halifax, including patrol ships, tugboats, and minesweepers. The population of Halifax/Dartmouth had increased...
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HMCS Sackville (category Museums in Halifax, Nova Scotia)
months as a museum ship moored beside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while spending her winters securely in the naval dockyard...
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Force Museum of Canada Naval Museum of Halifax Naval Museum of Manitoba Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum Royal Canadian Artillery Museum Royal...
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Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada....
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Shearwater Heliport (redirect from Naval Air Station Halifax)
In August 1918 the US Navy established Naval Air Station Halifax, or NAS Halifax, at Baker Point on the shores of Eastern Passage to conduct anti-submarine...
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Provo Wallis (category Military personnel from Halifax, Nova Scotia)
years old when he died. He was the son of Provo Featherstone Wallis, a clerk at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by his wife Elizabeth Lawlor...
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of Halifax, Nova Scotia was created on 1 April 1996, when the City of Dartmouth, the City of Halifax, the Town of Bedford, and the County of Halifax amalgamated...
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Royal Canadian Navy (redirect from Naval Service of Canada)
of RCN is preserved and presented at the Maritime Command Museum in Halifax, the Canadian War Museum, the Naval Museum of Alberta, the Naval Museum of...
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ship HMCS Sackville, Canada's naval memorial. The city's rich naval history is also presented at the Naval Museum of Halifax in the city's North End. The...
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House, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, now the Naval Museum of Halifax Admiralty House, Mount Pearl, Canada, also known as Admiralty House Museum & Archives...
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civilians, who looted the City of Halifax. Although a subsequent Royal Commission chaired by Justice Roy Kellock blamed lax naval authority and specifically...
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Admiralty buildings (category History of the Royal Navy)
(now housing Nelson's Dockyard Museum). Admiralty House, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (now the Naval Museum of Halifax) Admiralty House, Hong Kong (Marble...
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Highlanders Naval Museum of Halifax Halifax Armoury CFB Greenwood CFB Halifax History of Nova Scotia History of New Brunswick History of the Halifax Regional...
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HMS Namur (1756) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
ship in 1805, and took part in the naval engagement of 4 November 1805 (the Battle of Cape Ortegal), when the remnants of the French and Spanish fleet which...
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Ground is part of the Naval Museum of Halifax and was the Naval Hospital cemetery for the North America and West Indies Station at Halifax, Nova Scotia...
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subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use of the sea. The great prize of a maritime museum is a historic...
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HMS Niobe (1897) (category Halifax Explosion ships)
Canadian museums including the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Naval Museum of Halifax in Halifax. The latter devotes a room to Niobe which includes...
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Citadel Hill is a hill that is a National Historic Site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Four fortifications have been constructed on Citadel Hill since...
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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925...
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A Historic Sites and Monuments' board of Canada plaque in Halifax describes the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service: Women's service in the military...
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Downtown Halifax is the primary central business district of the Municipality of Halifax. Located on the central-eastern portion of the Halifax Peninsula...
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Imperial fortress (category Military installations of the United Kingdom)
withdrew most of its establishment from the continent, leaving small military garrisons to defend the Royal Naval Dockyard at Halifax, Nova Scotia and...
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history of the Royal Canadian Navy is preserved and presented at the Maritime Command Museum in Halifax, the Canadian War Museum, the Naval Museum of Alberta...
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HMCS Athabaskan (R79) (category Naval mutinies)
Canadian post-war naval reform following a crew protest in 1949. Athabaskan was ordered in April 1942. She was laid down 15 May 1943 at Halifax Shipyards and...
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CFB Esquimalt (redirect from CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum)
Esquimalt Naval Sites National Historic Site of Canada. In March 2013, CFB Esquimalt services the following ships assigned to Canadian Fleet Pacific Halifax-class...
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