Halifax's Admiralty House played a role in Canada’s front line during the vital Battle of the Atlantic during World War II.

This is the last of three episodes exploring the many courageous Royal Navy commanders who walked its halls.

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How a native born Haligonian rises to the highest rank in the Royal Navy. The second of three episodes featuring courageous Royal Navy commanders who walked the halls of Halifax’s Admiralty House.

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From the original “Master and Commander” to Victoria Cross winners, many courageous Royal Navy commanders have walked the halls of Halifax’s Admiralty House.

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How local millionaire George Wright’s Victorian era mansion becomes the home base for Edith Archibald, champion of Temperance and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Canada.

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Simeon Perkins’ House and the town of Liverpool are quite literally the home of Nova Scotia’s most famous privateers. Follow the transformation of Simeon Perkins, the New England merchant into a Loyalist privateer.

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Intrigue and ineptitude on the frontiers of empire.

Part one of a two episode series on Fort Beausejour National Historic Site, in New Brunswick, Canada

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The third episode of our three part series on Fort Anne National Historic Site, in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The new English owners learn that taking a place and keeping it may be two different things entirely. Fort Anne fights off all comers for over forty years.

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Our second episode in a three part series on Fort Anne National Historic Site, in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Third time’s a charm for English attempts at conquest in French Acadia.

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