Publications

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Through the addition to this website of historic publications like the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS) newsletter The Tiddley Times and the Canadian Navy List volumes, the museum strives to share its collections and make them readily available to researchers and interested visitors.

Aug – Sep 194

We will continue to add key publications to this website in order to provide this content to the widest possible audience, and in the hope that others will benefit from the information and insights these key documents provide. They offer a portal to another time and place, and an opportunity to hear the genuine voices of the people who lived and experienced the occasions and events they recount.

Please notify museum staff if you have historic publications you can add to this growing online collection.

The Crow’s Nest – in the Royal Canadian Navy’s history, there have been three separate publications named for the crow’s nest lookout position aboard a ship.
The Tiddley Times was a newspaper produced by and for the Wrens that chronicled the activities, careers and life events of members of the wartime Women’s Royal Canadian Naval service (WRCNS).
The Canadian Navy Lists are a useful tool for researchers who are trying to track the career of an officer in the Canadian Navy.
Gangway was a wartime newspaper for the Royal Canadian Navy’s west coast fleet and shore establishments. It was first published in April 1943.
Pusser Post was the provisional newspaper of HMCS Peregrine, (formerly Stadacona II, at one time the Y-Depot of the RCAF), a training base in Halifax during World War 2.
The Lay-vee Light was a fairly short-lived publication that served as the shipboard newsletter of HMCS LÉVIS (2nd)
Headway, the museum’s newsletter, first began publication in the winter of 2004 and continued to publish until 2018.