Centennial Bell Artefacts- 1960-1988 (The Cold War)

Note: Scroll down the page to find an exact person and their donation(s).

              

 

ARTEFACTS 
-Cap talley’s HMCS CRUSADER, HMCS LABRADOR, HMCS PRESTONIAN(not shown), HMCS QUEBEC, HMCS MAGNIFICENT
- HMCS YORK lapel pin
-LS Hook regulating badge (White)
-Torpedo mans trade badge (Red)
-CPO’s collar (Red) x 2
-Sail makers badge
-Air Branch Badge X 2 (Red and White)
-Armour’s Badge (Gold)
-Sonar man’s Badge (White)

Artefact Submitted by :
Commanding Officer HMCS YORK

Donated by: 
HMCS York
 
Description
These Items were all part of the RCN’s uniform; Cap Tallies were worn on the Sailors Caps depicting the ship in which they served.
The white LS rank badge (Anchor) was either worn on the left sleeve of the Gun Shirt or the left sleeve of the white tunic depicting the sailors rank.
HMCS YORK lapel pin is metal and has HMCS YORK’s ships badge on it.

 

ARTEFACT 
Brass Light switch plate

Artefact Submitted by:
Cdr Fraser M. McKee (Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Cdr Fraser M. McKee (Ret’d)

Description
Description plate fitted over fog light cluster switch in after lobby on HMCS IROQUOIS a Tribal Class destroyer.

 

             
ARTEFACT 
Naval Association pins

Artefact Submitted by:
Admiral Desmond Piers Naval Association

Donated by: 
Members of the Admiral Desmond Piers Naval Association  

Description
1 ea – Admiral Desmond Piers Naval Association pin
1 ea – South Shore Naval Association pin

 

                   
ARTEFACT 
Club plaque

Artefact Submitted by:
John Moyes, President of the Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club

Donated by: 
Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club

Description
Originally known as the Sea-going Officers’ Club, the Crow’s Nest served as a favourite recreation spot for officers fighting the Battle of the Atlantic.  Although it is a private club today, it continues to house numerous artefacts from World War II and is well used by the officers of today’s Canadian Navy.

This plaque was presented to a founding member, H.H. (Dick) Winter, in recognition of his lengthy and impressive contribution to the Crow’s Nest.  Mr. Winter served in the merchant navy during World War II and continued to be a member of the Crow’s Nest throughout his life.  This plaque was returned to the club from his estate.

 

ARTEFACT 
12” Plotting Ruler

Artefact Submitted by:
PO1 Chuck Verville

Donated by: 
PO1 Chuck Verville 

Description
Plotting ruler used by radar plotters and by NCIOP’s to plot tracks on the plotting table for anti-collision and general action plots. This plotting ruler was last used on HMCS RESTIGOUCHE.

 

ARTEFACT 
105mm M14 brass shell casing

Artefact Submitted by:
CPO2 Barry Allard

Donated by: 
CPO2 Barry Allard

Description
One expended 105mm howitzer casing

Photo soon to be published

ARTEFACT 
Brass belt buckles

Artefact Submitted by:
CPO1 Mark Moger

Donated by: 
CPO1 Mark Moger

Description
First belt buckle in initial uniform issue.  Other buckles accumulated throughout the years

     

     

     

     

      

     

    

ARTEFACTS 
Green workdress slip on (PO2)
Olive green combat slip on (PO2)
2 Canada slip on one green dress and one green workdress
LS stripes green workdress
2 white Canada flashes
2 red Canada flashes
1 green ½ slip on
1 metal collar dog (AB)
1 stripe dress green (AB)
1 PO1 rank badge (Red)
1 CPO1 collar dog
1 CPO2 collar dog metal
1 gold Marksman badge
1 set of gold Musicians collar badges PO1-CPO1
1 Admin cap badge metal
1 red Cook’s badge
1 white Admin badge
1 white Stoker’s badge
1 white single GC
1 white double GC
1 red double GC
1 red triple GC
1 workdress ship’s badge HMCS SASKATCHEWAN
1 workdress ship’s badge HMCS PORTE QUEBEC
1 olive green crown combat (PO1)
1 metal badge Marine 1910-1985 Canadian Navy’s 75th anniversary badge.

Artefacts Submitted by:
Commanding Officer of HMCS YORK

Donated by: 
Cdr MP Davies 

Description
These items were all part of the RCN’s uniform, or the green uniform.

 

  

ARTEFACT 
Eight brass rings

Artefact Submitted by:
Kevin Andrea

Donated by: 
Maritime Forces Atlantic 

Description
Extracted from the transducers used on the underwater telephone system of  HMCS ONONDAGA, an Oberon Class submarines.

ARTEFACT 
Differential pressure regulator

Artefact Submitted by:
Experimental Diving and Undersea Group at DRDC Toronto

Donated by: 
Experimental Diving and Undersea Group at DRDC Toronto

Description
It was one of the regulators utilized in the early 1970’s for the testing and formation of the Canadian Navy Clearance Diving tables. These are the now famous DCIEM tables that the military and civilians use at this time.

 

     

ARTEFACTS 
RAdm Epaulette
2 naval buttons
2 RAdm sleeve rank gold braid

Artefact Submitted by:
Capt (N) Pickford

Donated by: 
RAdm R.J. Pickford (Ret’d) 

Description
RAdm Pickford served in the Canadian Navy from 1940 until he retired in 1975. During his time of service, he was CO of HMCS RIMOUSKI during World War II, XO of HMCS ONTARIO, the CO of HMCS KOOTENY, Commander of the 2nd Destroyer Squadron, Commander CANCOMFLT, and Commander Maritime Forces Pacific.

 

     

     

   

   

ARTEFACTS 
Capt (N) epaulette and 2 RCN Capt (N) boards
MARS cap badge       
Belt buckle ( no picture avaliable )
MOG 5 badge (cloth)  
Name tag ( no picture avaliable )
2 sets of 75th anniversary pin and button
HMCS ATHABASKAN 25th anniversary pin
Naval fouled anchor pin
Bluenose pin
MARCOM pin

Artefacts Submitted by:
Capt (N) Pickford

Donated by: 
Capt (N) Pickford

Description
Capt (N) Pickford served in the Candian Navy from 1973 until his retirement in 2010.
He served as navigating officer, combat officer, operations officer onboard several different east coast ships. He was also XO of HMCS PROTECTEUR, and the CO of HMCS ATHABASKAN, Commander of MOG 5. Capt (N) Pickford also was DGMF, and the Project Manager of the Canadian Navy Centennial.

 

     

ARTEFACT 
3 inch .50 shell casing

Artefact Submitted by:
CO HMCS UNICORN

Donated by: 
Cdr R.L. Hanson

Description
This shell casing is from one of the saluting charges fired by HMCS NIPIGON during the Fleet Review that took place during the 75th Anniversary Naval Assembly in Halifax Harbour in June, 1985. The salute was fired in honour of the Reviewing Officer, HE Jeanne Sauve, Governor General of Canada and Commander –in-Chief of the Canadian Forces, and was accompanied by HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York. The shell was obtained by Cdr Hanson, who at the time was the Combat Systems Engineering Officer in HMCS NIPIGON.

 

      

ARTEFACT 
HMCS Bonaventure ashtray

Artefact Submitted by:
Ed Janusas

Donated by: 
Ed Janusas
 
Description
Purchased onboard “BONNIE” in the ship’s canteen by Mr Janusas during one of his ship tours between 1960 -1966. Mr Janusas was an Aviation Technician, and severed the RCN from 1948 until 1973.

 

ARTEFACT 
One Solid Brass Miniature Anchor

Artefact Submitted by:
Capt (N) Peter S Milsom, RCN (Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Capt (N) Peter S Milsom, RCN (Ret’d)

Description
This was an original casting from HMCS CAPE SCOTT done in spring 1970 as a possible presentation piece example for the Commander First Canadian Destroyer Squadron, (HMC ships TERRA NOVA, RESTIGOUCHE, FRASER, SASKATCHEWAN, SAGUENAY, NIPIGON, ST. LAURENT). The piece was one of several items considered by Captain (later Commodore) James Cutts, then CANCOMDESRON One, while preparing for a NATO Mediterranean exercise deployment during 1970, but it was discarded in favour of a less labour intensive item.

 

     

ARTEFACTS 
Mortar Mk 10 shell casing

Artefact Submitted by:
Capt(N) Peter S Milsom, RCN (Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Capt(N) Peter S Milsom, RCN (Ret’d)

Description
This shell casing was from the second and last HMCS SKEENA (DDH 207), while under the command of Cdr Fred Mifflin (Later RAdm, Deputy Commander of MARCOM, and later a Cabinet Minister of the Federal Parliament of Canada. The XO was LCdr (later VAdm) Bob George. The Skeena AA gunnery performance was able to set a gunnery record while serving with the NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic 1971/1972.

 

   

ARTEFACT 
One 12’ empty brass casing for a 40mm AA mount

Artefact Submitted by:
Capt(N) Peter S Milsom, RCN (Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Capt(N) Peter S Milsom, RCN (Ret’d)

Description:                                                                                                                          HMCS BUCKINGHAM was a River Class frigate built at Lauzon Quebec, later converted to a Prestonian Class frigate. Even though she has been decommissioned for some time, the ship was distinguished by being the first vessel of escort size fitted with a flight deck to conduct the feasibility trials for operation of anti-submarine warfare helicopters from small warships.

HMCS BUCKINGHAM was under the command of LCdr C.E. Leighton, RCN 1963. This shell casing was much prized as it was given to Mr Milsom as a souvenir after being permitted to fire the weapon as a UNTD cadet during the summer training cruise, in 1963.

 

ARTEFACT 
Brass tool

Artefact Submitted by:
LCdr Pat Jessup

Donated by: 
12 Wing Shearwater

Description
Brass tool used to repair the flotation system of the CH 124 SeaKing helicopter.

 

 

ARTEFACTS 
3 CPO rank sleeve buttons
Belt buckle
1 Rifle casing circa 1944
2 Sten Gun casings

Artefact Submitted by:
Gordon D. Foster, CPO RCN Retired, (9684E)

Donated by: 
Gordon D. Foster, CPO RCN Retired, (9684E) 

Description
Items accumulated during Mr. Foster’s career from 1949 until 1976.

 

ARTEFACT 
Magnetic compass

Artefact Submitted by:
MS Don Read

Donated by: 
LCdr E James

Description
Once fitted to the Canadian Navy’s oldest commissioned ship HMCS ORIOLE.

 

  

ARTEFACTS 
Bronze fitting from CCGS Mclean

Artefact Submitted by:
LCdr Charles D. Maginley, RCN ( Retd) and CCG ( Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Yves Berube, C.S.M.A

Description
This Bronze fitting came from the hulk of CCGS N.B. MCLEAN while she was waiting to be dismantled at Sorel in the 1980’s.

The CCGS N.B. MCLEAN was an icebreaker built in Halifax and completed in 1930. During World War II she carried out missions to Labrador and the Arctic and continued her usual tasks of escorting ships on the Hudson Bay route in summer and the St. Lawrence River in the winter. She was retired in 1979, after 49 years of service but not broken up for scrap until 1988.

 

ARTEFACT 
HMCS CHAMPLAIN Pin

Artefact Submitted by:
Commanding Officer of HMCS CHAMPLAIN

Donated by: 
Jacque- Mailly Museum

Description
In the middle of the 1980’s, a new phase of revitalisation of the Naval Reserve was put in motion and four new French units were commissioned. HMCS CHAMPLAIN or NCSM CHAMPLAIN opened in 1985 when naval activities in the town were ending. NCSM CHAMPLAIN reignited the coastal participation in the centre of Chicoutimi with coverage of the navy in 1986.  During this era, the unit was lodged in an old shopping mall.  Over the years, NCSM CHAMPLAIN saw, by it’s participation in the Saguené community, realized the challenge of reinstating naval tradition in Chicoutimi. 

 

     

ARTEFACT 
Copper pipe from C.C.G.S. ERNEST LAPOINTE

Artefact Submitted by :
LCdr Charles D. Maginley, RCN ( Retd) and CCG ( Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Marc Giroud

Description
Copper pipe with bronze fitting from a water filter of the CCGS ERNEST LAPOINTE

 

ARTEFACT 
6” Double block

Artefact Submitted by:
PO1 D. Boettger

Donated by: 
HMCS CARLETON 

Description
The naval reserves have existed in Ottawa since 1923 when the Ottawa Half-Company was created.  From these early beginnings, to the expansion and re-naming to the “Ottawa Division of the RCNVR” in 1935, to the commissioning of HMCS CARLETON in 1941, citizens in the National Capital Region have been trained to become sailors.  For many, their indoctrination into the navy did not galvanize until they picked up and heaved on their first rope.  This block is a symbol of their right of passage into the fraternity of Citizen-Sailors.

 

ARTEFACT 
Flag pike headpiece

Artefact Submitted by:
PO1 D. Boettger

Donated by: 
HMCS CARLETON 

Description
The naval reserves have existed in Ottawa since 1923 when the Ottawa Half-Company was created.  From these early beginnings, to the expansion and re-naming to the “Ottawa Division of the RCNVR” in 1935, to the commissioning of HMCS CARLETON in 1941, citizens in the National Capital Region have been trained to become sailors.  After the closure of HMCS GLOUCESTER and HMCS BYTOWN, HMCS CARLETON is the last naval unit in Ottawa.  This headpiece is symbolic of the countless past parades that HMCS CARLETON has proudly represented the navy in Ottawa, and will continue to do so into the future. 

 

  

ARTEFACT 
Canadian and Naval jack flags

Artefact Submitted by:
Cdr Harvey

Donated by: 
Jim Shields, World War II RN Veteran

Description
Old Canadian and Naval jack flags

ARTEFACT 
Cast brass dolphin

Artefact Submitted by:
Capt(N) Dr. Wilfred GD Lund, (Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Capt(N) Dr. Wilfred GD  Lund, (Ret’d)

Description
The dolphin was fabricated in the forge at Fleet School at HMCS NADEN in 1964 from 4” gun casings, arisings from a gun shoot in HMCS STETTLER, a Prestonian Class frigate of the 4th Escort Squadron
The donation is one of six dolphins fabricated for the donor who was serving in HMCS STETTLER at the time (1964).  The Fleet School welcomed the provision of brass to provide the apprentices with practice in using the forge.  These were clearly “rabbits” in the best tradition of the RCN.  Brass surplus to the requirement was always provided as the demands of the school to produce ships badges etc was high.  While shell casings were supposed to be returned for disposal, a number of casings were “lost over the side”. 
Capt (N) Lund served 35 years in the RCN/CF and commanded both submarines and destroyers.  He retired in 1993, earned a PhD in history and writes extensively on the RCN/Canadian Navy. 

 

ARTEFACTS 
 1 x Pump impeller
1 x Valve body
1 x Relief valve

Artefact Submitted by :
Jim Somerville

Donated by: 
Derek Schute, Engineer

Description
CCGS PROVO WALLIS is named after a distinguished 19th century Canadian, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Perry whose many exploits include bringing the warship HMS SHANNON and the captured frigate USS CHESAPEAKE back to Halifax after the epic sea action off of Boston in June of 1813.

 CCGS PROVO WALLIS is an ice strengthened navigation aids vessel built by Marine Industries QC in 1969.  She was lengthened by 20 feet and tonnage increased to 1417 tonnes in 1990.

 

 

ARTEFACT:                                                                                                                         105mm memento

Artefact Submitted by:
MWO Chapman

Donated by: 
MWO Chapman

Description
105mm casing cut into a mug with decorative 50 cal machine gun handle. The 105mm casing represents the first 2 rounds that MWO Chapman loaded and fired as a young gunner with the RCA. He was able to make mementoes, one that he has kept for himself, and the other that he gave to his wife.

 

   

ARTEFACT 
Bronze valve from CSS/HMCS Acadia

Artefact Submitted by:
LCdr Charles D. Maginley, RCN ( Retd) & CCG ( Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Dan Conlin

Description
Bronze valve, originally from the heating system on the CCG ACADIA. The Hydrographic Survey Ship ACADIA was built in 1913 and served for 56 years. In both World Wars she served in the Navy as a patrol and training vessel.
After her retirement in 1969, Acadia was preserved at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography until 1982, when she was presented to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.  She is carefully maintained by museum staff and is open to the public. 

 

ARTEFACT 
Naval pointer

Artefact Submitted by:
Lt (N) Mike Black (Ret’d)

Donated by: 
Lt (N) Mike Black (Ret’d)

Description
Used by Officer of the Watches and Navigating Offciers to plot ship’s track while at sea.  Sold to Capital Iron as scrap, date unknown, origin unknown.