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From its inception in 1910 as the Canadian Naval Service, until July, 1941, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) had a category of sailor known as “Boy.” He joined as young as age fourteen, though in later years admission was increased to age seventeen and one-half.
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On 19 January, twenty young men aged 14–16 years entered the newly established Royal Naval College of Canada at the HMC dockyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The original building was constructed in 1863 as a naval hospital.
On 12 January 1910, Laurier introduced the Naval Service Bill in the House of Commons. It was ultimately carried by the Liberal majority, and received royal assent on 4 May 1910, thereby creating the new Naval Service of Canada, and the Department of the Naval Service to administer it.
Apr 24, 2015 · The Royal Canadian Navy’s first ships — HMCS Rainbow and Niobe, both former Royal Navy (RN) cruisers — were commissioned in the summer of 1910 for coastal defence and training in Esquimalt and Halifax, respectively. In total, the government envisaged a Canadian fleet of five cruisers and six destroyers.
Dec 12, 2008 · When the first class of the Royal Naval College of Canada was enrolled in 1911, Murray was among them. And at age 14 he was the youngest. He graduated third among 19 cadets in late 1912—two ahead of G.C. Jones who would become his great and bitter rival.
One RNCC cadet of the period recalled in 1955 that, understandably perhaps, the naval college boys were inclined to feel that they were on sufferance — and it was probably axiomatic in any event, asserted a second in 1965, that unwanted guests did not bring out the best in anyone.
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