It was one of those damp, bone-chilling days so common in Halifax in late December when Andy Barber first caught sight of his new posting in the harbour. He didn't think much about it at first. For ...

In 1944, the Canadian destroyer HMCS Haida watched helplessly as her sister ship, HMCS Athabaskan, was torpedoed and engulfed in flames. Commander Harry DeWolf (“Hard Over Harry”) was forced to make ...

It’s the most decorated warship in the history of the Canadian Navy, but its most dangerous assignment was to sail across Lake Ontario from Toronto to Port Weller. After 36 years as a showpiece at ...

Neil Bruce, who died last month at the age of 91, was one of five men who rescued HMCS Haida in 1964 when the ship was on its way to the scrapyard. Some of them mortgaged their houses, others dipped ...

For more than 30 years, it sat in the harbour at Ontario Place, a 115-metre-long monument to Canada's naval past. Yesterday, two tugboats, one pulling its stern and the other gently steering the bow, ...

To properly tell a navy story, you really need a good shot of navy rum. But I’m going to stick with coffee. This tale has a lot of moving parts, and I’ll need to keep focus.

The City of Hamilton hopes to work with Parks Canada to transform HMCS Haida into a less “imposing” tourist destination. A motion presented by Ward 2 Coun. Jason Farr seeks changes to the entranceway ...

When Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip travelled to Canada for the centennial of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, and later made a trip to Quebec City, Ottawa's Peter Ward managed to get invited ...

It’s now permanently docked in Hamilton, but 75 years ago, the HMCS Haida helped to defend Allied forces ahead of the Normandy invasion. Parks Canada highlighted the ship’s role in the pivotal moment ...