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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Canada | Ship flag= | Ship name=Canada | Ship owner=Charles Rufus Burgess, Wolfville, Nova Scotia | Ship operator= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=C.R. Burgess Yard, Kingsport, Nova Scotia | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1891 | Ship completed= | Ship christened= | Ship acquired= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship out of service= | Ship registry=Windsor, Nova Scotia, Official Number 100262 | Ship identification=*Code Letters MHWF- {{ICS|Mike}}{{ICS|Hotel}}{{ICS|Whiskey}}{{ICS|Foxtrot}}[1]
| Ship fate=Broken Up, Portland Maine | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | Ship tonnage=2301 Gross Tons | Ship displacement= | 257|ft|abbr=on}} | 45|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | Ship draft= | Ship depth= 26' 6" ft. | Ship decks=2 | Ship ice class= | Ship sail plan= Full Rigged Ship | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=Sail | Ship speed= | Ship capacity= | Ship crew= | Ship notes=
}} | Canada was a full rigged ship built in 1891 at Kingsport, Nova Scotia on the Minas Basin. She was one of the largest wooden sailing vessels ever built in Canada. Her owner had planned to make her the largest sailing ship built in Canada but damage to a timber intended for the keel caused her length to be trimmed by ten feet making Canada slightly smaller than the ship William D. Lawrence.[2] Thousands of people from Kings and Hants Counties attended the launch. Classed A1 by Lloyd's Register for 14 years, Canada made several fast passages between South America and Australia. However by 1900, the ship was finding cargoes difficult to get in the face of competition from tramp steamers. Canada was converted to a gypsum barge in 1910, carrying gypsum from Windsor, Nova Scotia to Staten Island, New York for the Gypsum Transportation Company of New York. She was towed a final time from New York to Portland, Maine in 1926 where she was broken up. References1. ^Lloyd's Register 1906
2. ^Joey St. Clair Patterson, Hantsport Shipbuilding: 1849-1893, Hantsport: Tug Boat Publishing, 2008, p. 111.
- Record of Canada Shipping, Frederick William Wallace, (Toronto: Musson Books) p. 47
External links- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164924/http://www.atlantictallships.ca/gallery.php?action=display&OutputType=Ships&ID=329&lang=e "Tall Ships of Atlantic Canada", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Ship Registry Information]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164929/http://www.atlantictallships.ca/gallery.php?action=display&ID=647&OutputType=PortraitsByShip&lang=e Portrait of Canada by Antonio Jacobsen, "Tall Ships of Atlantic Canada", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia]
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