St. Margaret's Bay Sea Training School
Lads from every part of Nova Scotia came to learn the seafaring arts at the St. Margaret's Bay Sea Training School in Hubbards, NS. to become merchant seamen, preparatory to joining the Merchant Marine to carry sinews of war to every battle zone of WW II. On the "Bluenose", a facsimile of a ship built on land, the lads learned knotcraft, signaling, climbing the ratlines, etc. (click on pictures for enlargements). Photographs done by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1944.
St. Margaret's Bay Sea School list of gear for cadets
St. Margaret's Bay Sea School list of commandant's lectures
St. Margaret's Bay Sea School entrance permission note for cadet John Robert Keith
Obituary of Sea School cadet Robert John Keith, Second World War vet re-enlisted for Korea, Windsor in Brief, November, 1986.
St. Margaret's Bay Sea School list of gear for cadets
St. Margaret's Bay Sea School list of commandant's lectures
St. Margaret's Bay Sea School entrance permission note for cadet John Robert Keith
Obituary of Sea School cadet Robert John Keith, Second World War vet re-enlisted for Korea, Windsor in Brief, November, 1986.