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Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada)
The Naval Shipyards were naval shipbuilding facilities used by the Provincial Marine and the Royal Navy in York, Upper Canada (present day Toronto). The naval shipyards were ordered by the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe in 1793, and were opened in 1798. History The shipyards were called for by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1793 and operated from 1798. The shipyards were situated on Humber Bay, near the western edge of the settlement (east of the ruins of Fort Rouille) and located south of Front Street on the shores of Lake Ontario west of Bay Street (today this is where the rail tracks south of Union Station are located). Ships were built along the sand shores using the trees from the forests inland and launched into Toronto Bay. Several ships were built for the Provincial Marine and the Royal Navy during the 1810s, including the schooner ''Prince Regent'' in 1812 (later renamed HMS ''Beresford'' in 1813, as HMS ''Netley'' 1814 and finally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York, Upper Canada
York was a town and second capital of the colony of Upper Canada. It is the predecessor to the old city of Toronto (1834–1998). It was established in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a "temporary" location for the capital of Upper Canada, while he made plans to build a capital near today's London, Ontario. Simcoe renamed the location York after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, George III's second son. Simcoe gave up his plan to build a capital at London, and York became the permanent capital of Upper Canada on February 1, 1796. That year Simcoe returned to Britain and was temporarily replaced by Peter Russell. The original townsite was a compact ten blocks near the mouth of the Don River and a garrison was built at the channel to Toronto Harbour. Government buildings and a law court were established. Yonge Street was built, connecting York to the Holland River to the north. To the east, Kingston Road was built to the mouth of the Trent Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWI -- Shipbuilding Toronto Waterfront
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in Genocides in history (World War I through World War II), genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the Spanish flu, 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising French Third Republic, France, Russia, and British Empire, Britain) and the Triple A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard
Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard was a Provincial Marine and then a Royal Navy yard from 1796 to 1813 in Amherstburg, Ontario, situated on the Detroit River. The yard comprised blockhouses, storehouses, magazine, wood yard and wharf. The yard was established in 1796 to support the Upper Canada Provincial Marine after Great Britain ceded a pre-existing shipyard on the Detroit River to the United States. Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard constructed four warships for the Lake Erie detachment of the Provincial Marine before and during the War of 1812. In 1813 the dockyard was abandoned and destroyed when the British retreated and never reopened. In 1928, the site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. History In 1796, Fort Amherstburg was chosen as the site of a new dockyard for the construction of Provincial Marine vessels after the former site at Detroit was ceded to the United States. It was the only British naval base west of Kingston and located on the Detroit Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navy Island Royal Naval Shipyard
Navy Island Royal Naval Shipyard was a Royal Navy yard in Ontario. Located on Navy Island in the Niagara River, it served as a French naval base in the early 18th century and was acquired by the British in 1763. The Royal Navy used it for their Lake Erie fleet during the War of 1812. Abandoned by the navy with the passage of the Rush-Bagot Treaty in 1817, it was formally acquired by Canada in 1822. It is now a National Historic site and managed by the Niagara Parks Commission. Ships built (two sloops and three schooners), repaired or defending or stationed at the base included: * (1) - schooner 1814, sunk 1828; raised and displayed since 1953 * * HMS ''Hunter'' * (1) * * * HMS ''Little Belt'' * ''Huron'' - schooner 1761 * ''Michigan'' - sloop 1762 * ''Royal Charlotte'' - sloop 1764 * ''Boston'' - schooner 1764 * - schooner 1764 * ''Gladwyn'' - schooner 1764 * ''Newash'' - schooner 1815 (1) * ''Minos'' - steam vessel 1840 (1) (1) - built in Chippawa See also * Battl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redfern Construction Company
Redfern may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Redfern (surname), a list of people with the surname * Redfern Froggatt (1924–2003), British footballer Places * Redfern, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia ** Redfern railway station * Electoral district of Redfern, a former electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales * Municipality of Redfern, a former local government area of Sydney * Redfern, South Dakota, United States, a former mining community Businesses * The Redfern Gallery, a London art gallery specialising in contemporary British art * Redfern (couture), a former London couture house which had branches in Paris and the United States Other uses *Redfern All Blacks, an Aboriginal Australian rugby league team established in 1938 See also * Redfern Oval, Redfern, Australia, a football ground * Redfern Park, Redfern, Australia, a heritage-listed park * Redfern Building, Manchester, England, a Grade-II listed building * Walter Redfern Company, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Shipbuilding Company
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dufferin Shipbuilding Company
Dufferin, Dyffryn or Duffryn may refer to: Places In Burma * Fort Dufferin, the British name for Mandalay Palace during their colonial rule In Canada British Columbia * Dufferin Island, * Dufferin, neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, from 1971 to 1973 a separate municipality Manitoba * Dufferin (Manitoba provincial electoral district) * Fort Dufferin, a National Historic Site * Rural Municipality of Dufferin New Brunswick * Dufferin Parish, a civil parish east of St. Stephen, New Brunswick Nova Scotia * Port Dufferin, a small community near Halifax Ontario * Dufferin Bridge, a community in Magnetawan * Dufferin County * Dufferin (electoral district), a federal electoral district in Ontario, abolished in 1924 * Dufferin Islands, a group of man-made islands near Niagara Falls * Dufferin Street in Toronto **Dufferin (TTC), a subway station on the street Quebec * Terrasse Dufferin, a broad terrace wrapping around much of old Quebec City Saskatchewan * Rural Municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Drydock Company
Toronto Drydock Company is a shipbuilding repair company in Canada and the name of two shipbuilders in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively. Toronto Dry Dock Company The first Toronto Dry Dock Company was established in 1847 by William Botsford Jarvis (1799–1864) in the Province of Canada to build ships to ply the waters of the Great Lakes. Toronto Dry Dock Company Limited Another Toronto Dry Dock Company Limited was established in 1917 by several partners: * C. S. Boone – President of the C. S. Boone Dredging and Construction Company Limited * John E. Russell, * Lawrence Solman, manager of the Toronto Ferry Company Limited * John J. Manley, C. S. Boone Dredging and Construction Company Limited * Henry J. Dixon Toronto Dry Dock and its floating dry dock and yard were located along the south edge of Keating Channel, along with the related Toronto Ship Building Company, owned by the same principals. The company acquired the shipbuilding business of Patrick Dixon and son H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMCS Oriole
HMCS ''Oriole'' is the sail training vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy based at CFB Halifax in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a sailing ketch, currently the oldest commissioned vessel in the Royal Canadian Navy, and also the longest serving commissioned ship. Originally the yacht ''Oriole IV'', the vessel was acquired by the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, then returned to private ownership at the end. ''Oriole IV'' was reacquired during the Cold War for use on the East Coast of Canada before switching to the West Coast of Canada in 1956. In 2018, the training vessel returned to the East Coast. Description ''Oriole'' has a standard displacement of and a fully loaded displacement of . The vessel is long overall with a beam of and a draught of . The vessel is propelled primarily by of sail, rigged as a ketch. Her sail plan includes flying sails set on her main and mizen . The height of the mainmast is and the mizzen mast is . The vessel is equipped with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst Street Wharf
Bathurst Street Wharf was a series of shipyards located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, between Bathurst Street and Spadina Avenue along Lake Shore Boulevard West. Early years The first facility appeared in 1890 and the last closed at the end of World War II. In total 160 ships were built in the shipyards in the site. Now filled inland, the area is now being developed into condos along the Gardiner Expressway. The ship building area was located near Old Fort York (where smaller vessels were built for the garrison) and Queens Wharf. Shipyards It was not until the late 19th Century when a formal shipyard began emerging in the area. The first ship building company in the area was John Doty Company (John Doty and Sons) from 1890 to 1893. This company built 6 boats, paddle boat ferries and steamers. Doty was acquired by Bertram Engineering Works Company in 1893 and built a large number of vessels of various sizes. Bertram sold the shipyard to Canadian Shipbuilding Company in 1905 and op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in Genocides in history (World War I through World War II), genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the Spanish flu, 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising French Third Republic, France, Russia, and British Empire, Britain) and the Triple A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
