The public got its first look at the future of Canada’s Navy at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax on Saturday. The shipyard held an open house where visitors were able to catch a glimpse of the HMCS Harry Dewolfe, currently under construction. The arctic patrol ship, built in three mage blacks, is being pieced together over the summer. The HMCS Harry Dewolfe, the first of six arctic patrol ships with a combined cost of 2.3 billion-dollars, is expected to be launched sometime in 2018.
Category: Kentville
Edward Cornwallis Statue Survives Protest
Workers for the city covered a statue of Edward Cornwallis with a black cloth ahead of a protest that aimed to tear the statue down. The crowd gathered for the ‘Removing Cornwallis’ protest was told by city workers that the statue would be covered in a shroud as a sign of good faith. The cover was taken off the statue a few hours later. Edward Cornwallis founded Halifax in 1749 and later put a bounty on the scalps of Mi-kmaq.