This section brings together the approximately 700 objects and photographs used in Canada's Naval History. Use this section to directly access objects and photographs grouped by type, as shown below, or use the search function above to search through them by title.

HMCS Aurora

The light cruiser HMCS Aurora, the Royal Canadian Navy's new flagship, arrived in Halifax with the destroyers HMCS Patriot and HMCS Patrician on 21 December 1920.

Aurora was an updated version of the cruisers around which the RCN had originally intended to build a fleet. Although Britain had initially offered an older coal-burning cruiser, the Canadian government pressed for and obtained a more modern oil-burning vessel. Aurora was decommissioned less than two years later, after a round of severe budget cuts to the RCN.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
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