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Building an Icon: Those who worked on building Bluenose

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Photo: Nova Scotia Archives / W.R. MacAskill

 

We know that the Smith and Rhuland Shipyard built Bluenose, but who actually cut the timber, hammered the trunnels and caulked the cotton and oakum between planks?

Local historian Allan Browne has dedicated two decades to finding the names of the shipwrights and workers who built Bluenose.

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Photo: Nova Scotia Archives / W.R. MacAskill

 

To date, the following names have been confirmed:

  • BUCKMASTER, ARTHUR JOSEPH
  • CORKUM, CLARENCE ST. CLAIR
  • CROUSE, C.E. ROY
  • DEAL, AUBREY
  • FALKENHAM, HOWARD MELBURNE
  • HANSON, CHARLES
  • HEBB, GEORGE
  • LANGILLE, MANSON WILLIS
  • LANTZ, JACOB ARTHUR
  • LEW, THOMAS ESSON (ESSEN)
  • MCISAAC, DANIEL ALEXANDER
  • MORASH, B. HAROLD
  • MORASH, EDWIN
  • MORASH, SOLOMON
  • MULOCK, ADNAH NATHANIEL
  • MULOCK, GUY
  • OXNER, CHARLES
  • RANDALL, GILBERT CHARLES
  • RHULAND, GEORGE ALFRED
  • RHULAND, JOHN DOUGLAS
  • SILVER, CHARLES WILLIAM
  • SMITH, RICHARD WESLEY
  • WALTERS, ANGUS JAMES
  • WALTERS, ROY MEDFORD
  • WENTZELL, GIDEON BENJAMIN
  • WESTHAVER, ARTHUR
  • WILKIE, OSWALD NATHANIEL
  • ZINCK, CREIGHTON ALBERT
  • CAVENDISH, VICTOR- DEVONSHIRE, DUKE OF
  • HIRTLE CLIFFORD WILLIAM
  • DAUPHINEE, CHARLES WILLIAM
  • BURNS, GARNET WOLSLEY


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