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Items submitted by Rick Faulkner.

HMCS Acadia : Navy Cadets, 1958.

HMCS Acadia is a cadet summer training centre operated by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets that has used the unit name Acadia from 1956–present. It is currently located at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. -- Wikipedia.


HMCS Acadia, cadets, 1958

ON INSPECTION -- Vice-Ad. Walter Hose, R.C.N. (retired), carried out an inspection of a Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps that was named after him. Vice-Ad. Hose, left, is shown inspecting the Admiral Hose Corps of Riverside High School. He is talking with David Calcott, son of J.R. Calcott of Eastlawn Blvd., as Lt. Samuel Krewench, commanding officer and a teacher at the high school, looks on.


HMCS Acadia, cadets, 1958

TROPHY WINNERS -- Riverside High School Sea Cadets won the Lord Strathcona Trophy for general proficiency for high school sea cadets for the third consecutive year. The presentation of the shield was made by Rear Admiral Walter N. Hose, R.C.N., (Ret.), left, to Lieutenant Sam Krewench, commanding officer of the Riverside Corps.


HMCS Acadia, HMCS Quebec, cadets, 1958

HMCS Acadia sea cadets on the foc'sle of HMCS Quebec.
Top (straddling guns), L-R: Ed Cunningham, UNKNOWN, Raymond Matthews.
3rd Row, L-R: Clive Tompkins, Grant Smith, Doug Steel, Donald King, Bob Mitchell, Paul Peacey.
2nd Row, L-R: Larry Relf, Jim Wood, Bob Relf.
Front Row, L-R: Dave Calcott, Rick Faulkner, Lt O'Gorman, Lt Krewench, Lt Sabo, UNKNOWN, Donald Kincaid.


Thanks to Rick Faulkner for these items.


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