subterranean with a maze of tunnels, corridors, storage rooms and sleeping quarters buried deep inside the island. Then in the late 1890s because of the rapid pace of weapon development it soon rendered the fortress guns obsolete, so then the British installed a new torpedo system and established a manually operated submarine mine field across the harbour's channel by using Georges Island as its base. Finally during WW1 the island was used as an anchor to hold
submarine nets to prevent those U-Boats from entering the inner bay where all the ships would gather to form a convoy to cross the ocean with the Canadian Navy to provide protection
( On a side note, that is how the Great Halifax Explosion (Dec 6 1917) took place....as the waterways were that crowded that the two ships Belgian relief vessel Imo and the French munitions ship Mont Blanc collided and created the biggest man made explosion up to the Atomic Age!) To present times, Georges Island was deemed a National Historic Site in 1965 and final there is talk of reopening it ( Parks Canada says between 2012-2014 ) to the general public after a few 'open' weekends showed that there is a great interest in our history on the east coast of Canada.
G'day Terry keep the Canada stories comin. I'm reading them & making a wish list of things to see when we go visit to my Canadian husband. Who politely nods yes honey. Love you work
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