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keep her in Lunenburg, was sald to
a West Indies trading company
where she toiled away the war
years, and eventually was lost on a
reef off Haiti in 1946.

The Town of Lunenburg, nestl-
ed on Nova Scotia's south coast,
never forgot Bluenose. Many of the
men who sailed her and other
schooners of those days are living
there yet, and when their town
shipyard built the replicas of HMS
Rose and HMS Bounty (for the
movie starring Marlon Brando) in
the early sixties, an undercurrent
of interest in building a replica of
Bluenose began to grow.

Finally, in 1963 a long, sleck
schooner glided out from her
builder’s yard and thousands
cheered as Bluenose iJ, the last of
the tall schooners, came to life in
Lunenburg Harbor.

Bluenose II is a sailing goodwill
ambassador for Nova Scotia and a
symbol of Nova Scotia and
Canada’s maritime heritage; her
eighteen, all-Nova Scotian crew
represent the Province of Nova
Scotia for tourism awareness and
industrial development.

The 18,000-mile rcund trip
voyage from Nova Scotia to Expo
786 will be her most ambitious
voyage ever.

Arriving in Victoria on April 16,
she will commence a 21-day visit to
British Columbia ports, including
Vancouver from April 25 to May 7
at Canada Harbor Place.

2326 West 4th Ave.
Vancouver

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Making Waves

WITHIN a matter of weeks the
keel laying ceremony for the first
real ‘‘Tall Ship’ to be built in
Canada for the training of young
men and women wil} take place.

The ship which is to be a square
rigged steel Barque 140 feet long
and carrying sails on three masts
will join the -vorid fleet of 220
such vessels.

To be called Spirit of Canada
the ship will be built in a Van-
couver shipyard, West Coast Man-
ly, since this was the builder who

Preserve the

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We can assure that British Col-
umbia’s coast is a magnificent one
to cruise on for centuries to come
if we who are vachtsmen join with
others, take up the issues, ask poi-
gnant questions, and make our
voices heard in the boardrooms
and legislative buildings. As one
conservation organization points
out, this is the last generation that
has the choice of preserving tracts

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submitted the lowest bid.

Upon being launched, the ship
will serve to train 1,000 young Ca-
nadians cach year. The training
will not be for the armed forces or
even for the sea, but rather for life
in the twenty-first century.

Spirit of Canada will cost just
over $6 million to complete and
will be operated on a self-sustain-

wilderness

of land that
human impact.

have had minimal

Courtesy Pacific
Yachting

Dr. Al Whitney has been a
yachisman on this coast for 16
sents. He operates Pacific Synergies,
a company which does nature, art
and anthropology trips on our
wilderness coast aboard the com-
pany’s 71ft ketch Darwin Sound U1,

Park Royal South
West Vancouver

Training ship built

ing basis. The funds needed are be-
ing raised by way of corporate
sponsorships and by subscriptions
from families and individuals who
join the Spirit of Canada Tall Ship
Association.

When completed the ship will
cruise Canadian waters on both
coasts and the Great Lakes during
the summer months but will ven-

ATTENTION

ture further afield during the
balance of the year carrying stu-
dents to distant countries in order
that they can aid in cementing
cordial relations, while at the same
time learning about our world
neighbors.

This learning process will be
enhanced by state of the art com-
puters and similar learning devices
on board in order that by the time
the students reach the new country
they will have been fully briefed on
language and customs.

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