the schooner Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921. -Ashton
The Dime (.10).
The Bluenose was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921
Can we rephrase that? The schooner is Old Bluenose, it's not a schooner with a blue nose. And there's no candy involved, it's a Canadian dime.
It's an image of the Bluenose, which was a Canadian fishing boat and racing schooner in the 1920s and '30s.
This is the Bluenose a famous racing fishing schooner under the red duster or Candaian Flag. She ( the ship) won the fisherman:s trophy for speed a number of times and was of course a popular working vessel as well. there was some controversy that the Bluenose was designed as a racing yacht- but surely equpped for the fishing trqde and rugged water operation. The Bluenose has long been a popular subject for ship modellers.
The schooner Old Bluenose, built in Lunenburg Nova Scotia The ship is on the front, or obverse. By convention the side with the monarch's picture is considered to be the back, or reverse.
The schooner on the front of the Canadian dime was a depiction by Emmanuel Hahn of Bluenose.
Andrew Robinson built and launched the first vessel to be called a schooner in 1713 from Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA.
The beaver is a symbol of Canada because that animal was very important to the country's early economy. Trappers went across the country to hunt them and bring back the pelts for use in clothing.
The ship is a representation of the "Bluenose", a famous Canadian schooner. The artist, Emmanuel Hahn, used three ships including the Bluenose as his models, so the ship design is actually a composite.
The "Effie M. Morrissey" (now Ernestina) was a schooner that made many scientific expeditions to the Arctic.
It is the Bluenose was a Canadian fishing and racing schooner from Nova Scotia built in 1921. She was later commemorated by a replica Bluenose II built in 1963. A celebrated racing ship and hard-working fishing vessel, Bluenose became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia as well as important Canadian symbol in the 1930s. The name "bluenose" originated as a nickname for Nova Scotians from as early as the late eighteenth century. And On January 28, 1946 she foundered on a reef off the coast of Haiti and sank. L