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unusual facts about HMCS ''Stadacona''



Beatrice Helen Worsley

After graduation, she enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service and, after basic training, was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant and assigned to the shore–base HMCS Stadacona where she was engaged on research in Degaussing techniques, to protect ships from Magnetic mines.

CSS Acadia

CSS Acadia was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy in January 1917 as a patrol vessel, replacing the CSS prefix with HMCS, thus becoming HMCS Acadia.

Donnacona, Quebec

However, the Huron Chieftain never lived in this area, but rather further east in Stadacona.

Éric Mercier

Mercier was Divisional Officer at Department of Education at the Naval Unit HMCS Montcalm in Quebec in 2002 and 2003.

HMCS Acadia

HMCS Acadia (II) is a cadet summer training centre operated by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets that has used the unit name Acadia from 1956–present.

Naval Museum of Halifax

From 1925 to 1954 it became part of the Royal Canadian Navy base HMCS Stadacona, serving as a Wardroom Officer's Mess and later as office space.

Highlights include the original bell and a large display of artifacts from HMCS Niobe, the first flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy, as well as a display of ship's bells and christening bells spanning the history of the Canadian Navy.

William Landymore

Landymore was posted to the C-class destroyer HMCS Fraser in 1940 and survived her sinking after she collided with cruiser HMS Calcutta in the Gironde estuary.


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