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CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum is at HMCS Naden. [67] Building 20 (c. 1891), part of Naden Museum Square is a Municipal Heritage Property. [ 51 ] Building 37 (c. 1889) part of the Naden Museum Square is also a Municipal Heritage Property and is also on the Canadian Register of Historic Places . [ 44 ]
The Homecoming in 2018. The monument is located on Wharf Street in Victoria, British Columbia.It comprises the bronze Homecoming statue set that depicts a sailor reuniting with his daughter (and dog) after returning from deployment; a stone marker describing the history of the Canadian Navy and the date of the monument's unveiling; and a second stone marker depicting the insignia of Navy ...
Quadra is the only Sea Cadet Training Centre in Canada to include all four trades plus two of the three specialty trades (Marine Engineering, and Shipwright). Cadets undergoing training as boatswains and marine engineers also undergo training in damage control at CFB Esquimalt. Quadra plays host to a number of international exchange cadets.
The Township of Esquimalt (/ ɪ ˈ s k w aɪ m ɔː l t /) is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the New Songhees 1A Indian reserve and the town of View Royal, and to ...
It is operated by Public Services and Procurement Canada and is the largest non-military hard bottom dry dock on the west coast of the Americas. [17] [18] In February 1942, RMS Queen Elizabeth spent two weeks in the Esquimalt Graving Dock refitting and adding 3,000 extra berths for troopship duty.
A History of the Defence of Victoria and Esquimalt, 1846-1893. Manuscript report (Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch), no. 426. Ottawa: Parks Canada. OCLC 41731470. Lovatt, Ronald (1983). A History of the Defence of Victoria and Esquimalt : Royal Garrison Artillery Period, 1899–1906 (PDF). Microfiche Report Series 89.
MARPACHQ is at CFB Esquimalt in Esquimalt, British Columbia, near Victoria. HMCS Naden; NOTC Venture; Whiskey 601 is the regularly used name for an often used naval weapons exercise area off the west coast of Canada. The area's official title was "W-601". The name was usually shortened to "Whiskey" [1] by sailors in the Royal Canadian Navy ...
HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509) [a] was the lead ship of the Protecteur-class replenishment oilers in service with the Royal Canadian Navy.She was part of Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC), homeported at CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia.