Take a look inside the HMCS Victoria (in service) with Canadian Navy Lieutenant Ned Feltham. See the Royal Canadian Navy participating in multinational maritime warfare exercises (RIMPAC) near Hawaii in 2012 and see inside the HMCS Onondaga submarine museum in Rimouski, Quebec.
Pretend passports are a great resource to record places you visit throughout the year through studies and books. Whenever you read a story set in a world location, or study another culture, put a sticker or stamp in your passport for a record of all the places you’ve virtually visited. Class or co-op Group Activity: …
Werner Voss (April 13, 1897 – September 23, 1917) Lieutenant Voss was a World War I German flying ace, and friend of the famous Red Baron. He was a brilliant and aggressive flyer, with a gift for mechanical engineering, often tinkering with his plane. On September 23, 1917, he fought an epic, single-handed dogfight against several Allied…
Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The 10,311 km2 island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia’s total area. Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the 1,385 m long rock-fill…
Viking sagas (stories) tell of the discovery of a place called Vinland and the settlement there. In 1960, a Viking settlement was discovered on the northeast tip of Newfoundland. Archaeologists are certain they have found the remains of the first Norse (Viking) settlement in North America, at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Today it is a…
Lance-Coporal Fred Fisher was enjoying a break in the little Belgium village of St. Julien, a short way from the front lines, when he heard the call to action. A German division was digging in just north of St. Julien. The 10th Battery Canadian Field Artillery (CFA) needed to retreat from a dangerous position. They…
The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a National Historic Site of Canada and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada….
The North American Lobster may be an item on a fancy menu, it is, first and foremost, an important wildlife species to our Atlantic coast’s ecology. Dive in, and discover this fascinating animal! In the mid-1880s – only ten years after the lobster boom began – overfishing drove the stocks to dangerously low levels. The…
The search for the Northwest Passage was an obsession for explorers in the 19th century and may help Canada lay claim to Arctic sovereignty. The HMS Investigator settled on ice in the Arctic and her sixty-nine man crew were forced to abandon ship in 1854. The vessel was on its second mission to search for two other lost…
Confederation? Constitution? How does it all work together? Trace the story of how Canada and its Parliament began. Related Books