Alexander Graham Bell invented the first airboat in 1905 in Nova Scotia, Canada. The British…
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The St. Peters Canal is a small shipping canal on Cape Breton Island in eastern…
Our country’s air space was far away from the brutality of the Second World War in Europe. He should have been safe, at least until he was ready for the war theatre. But like so many young pilots in training he would die in a crash and never see action.
William Charles Smith was flying Harvard aircraft number 2963 on June 19, 1943, while training…
As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday this year it is worth noting that a war has never been fought on its land. But the weapons of warfare brought death and destruction to Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s Atlantic seaboard 100 years ago. On December 6, 1917, the French ship Mont-Blanc left its anchorage at Halifax to join a convoy that would cross the Atlantic en route to the First World War battle grounds.
As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday this year it is worth noting that a war…