Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre Weathervane - Halifax, Nova Scotia
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wildwoodke
N 44° 38.881 W 063° 34.400
20T E 454536 N 4944010
This weathervane of the Bluenose is found on top of the Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Waymark Code: WMFT14
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/25/2012
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The Halifax World Trade Centre has three floors of multi-purpose meeting and banquet rooms as well as various meeting space configurations available.
The weathervane that sits on the glass tower is modeled after the Bluenose a fishing and racing schooner that was built in Nova Scotia in 1921.
"After a season fishing on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Bluenose defeated Elsie (out of Gloucester), returning the International Fishermen's Trophy to Nova Scotia. In 1930, off Gloucester, Massachusetts, she was defeated 2–0 in the inaugural Sir Thomas Lipton International Fishing Challenge Cup by perhaps her most celebrated competitor, the Gertrude L. Thebaud. However, over the next 17 years of racing, no challenger, American or Canadian, could wrest the International Fishermen's Trophy from her."
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluenose
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