SS Canadian Constructor
SS ''Canadian Constructor'' was a Reefer ship, refrigerated ship built in 1922 by Halifax Shipyards Ltd in Nova Scotia. The ship had 12 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of heating her four 180 Pounds per square inch, lbf/in2 single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 705 Horsepower#Nominal horsepower, NHP Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion, triple expansion steam engine that was built by Tidewater Shipbuilders Ltd of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Her hull had a 13-ton fore peak tank and a 128-ton aft peak tank. The ship's first manager was Canadian National Steamships, which set up a one-ship company, Canadian Constructor Ltd, to own her. In 1939 she was sold to Ernels Shipping Co of London, who registered her in London as SS ''Argos Hill'' and her placed under the control of Counties Ship Management. She was damaged in an air attack on Convoy OA 178 in the English Channel on 4 July 1940. ''Argos Hill'' survived an ...
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ...
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