She was retired from active service on November 28, 1969.   Acadia was declared a National Historic Site in 1976.

On February 9, 1982, CSS Acadia was transferred to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic for preservation and interpretation. She is moored at the Museum's North Wharf and open to visitors from May to October. In September 2003 she rode out Hurricane Juan with ease, despite being the oldest vessel in Halifax Harbour. Acadia is known for being one of the last ships in Halifax that was home to an official ship's cat used for rodent control.[7] Acadia is drydocked every five years to preserve her hull, formerly at the Dartmouth Marine Slips and at Halifax Shipyard in more recent years.

Acadia is the only known vessel still afloat to have survived the Halifax Explosion in 1917. Every year on the December 6 anniversary of the explosion, Acadia hoists exactly the same signal flags she flew on the day of the explosion.

Retaining her original engines, boilers and little-changed accommodations, she is one of the best preserved Edwardian ocean steamships in the world and a renowned example of Canada's earliest scientific prowess in the fields of hydrography and oceanography.

In the summer Acadia is joined at the Museum wharves by HMCS Sackville, operated by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust. The two nearly identically sized ships present a contrast in shipbuilding eras and offer an ironic comparison as Sackville is a warship which became a part-time hydrographic ship and Acadia is a hydrographic ship which became a part-time warship.

MCS Haida is a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943 to

1963, participating in World War II and the Korean War. She was named for the Haida people.

The only surviving Tribal-class destroyer out of 27 vessels constructed for the RCN, the Royal Navy,

and the Royal Australian Navy between 1937 and 1945, Haida sank more enemy surface tonnage

than any other Canadian warship and as such is commonly referred to as the "Fightingest Ship in

the Royal Canadian Navy" [

Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984, she now serves as a museum ship berthed

next to HMCS Star, an active Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Division, in Hamilton, Ontario. In

2018, Haida was designated the ceremonial flagship of the RCN.

FUN FACTS for HAIDA Division

The Tribals were designed to fight heavily armed destroyers of other navies, such as the

Japanese  Fubuki class . [5]  Canada chose the design based on its armament, with the size and power

of the Tribal class allowing them to act more like small cruisers than as fleet destroyers. [6] Haida was

among the first batch of Tribal-class destroyers ordered by the RCN in 1940–1941. They were

ordered with modified ventilation and heating systems for North Atlantic winter service. Haida's

design was modified after deficiencies were noted in the lead ship of the Canadian

Tribals, HMCS Iroquois.

Haida, as one of the British-built Tribal-class destroyers, was 335 feet 6 inches (102.26 m) long

between perpendiculars and 377 feet (115 m) long overall with a beam of 36 feet 6 inches (11.13 m)

and a draught of 13 feet (4.0 m). As built, the destroyer displaced 1,927 long tons (1,958 t) standard

and 2,745 long tons (2,789 t) at deep load. Haida had a complement of 14 officers and 245 ratings.

Haida moored at Pier 9 in Hamilton

Initially the city of Toronto had planned to build a "Serviceman's Memorial Park" near the

Princess' Gates at nearby Exhibition Place to link with the Haida preservation efforts. 

In 1970, Haida was moved to Ontario Place at the west end of the Toronto waterfront, where it was

turned into an attraction until 2002. The vessel was also used as a Royal Canadian Sea

Cadets training facility.

HMCS Haida National Historic Site

Haida's propellers on display at the historic site

In 2002, at the urging of Hamilton, Ontario MP Sheila Copps, Parks Canada purchased Haida from

the provincial government and towed her (with great difficulty) from her Ontario Place dock to a

shipyard at Port Weller for a $5 million refit to her hull. She was taken to a new home on the

Hamilton waterfront and arrived to an 11-gun salute from 31 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet

Corps Lion and her 12-pounder naval field gun on 30 August 2003, the 60th anniversary of her

commissioning into the RCN. The destroyer is now a National Historic Site and is a museum ship on

the Hamilton waterfront in front of Hamilton's Naval Reserve Division, HMCS Star.

In July 2006 Haida was "twinned" with the Polish destroyer ORP Błyskawica in a ceremony in

Gdynia, Poland. Both ships served in the 10th Destroyer Flotilla during the Second World War. The

ceremony was attended by former crew members of both ships and the general public. The ship was

visited in 2009 by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and,

on June 29, 2010, at Government House in Nova Scotia, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,

presented to representatives of HMCS Haida the World Ship Trust Certificate. In September 2016,

the ship was towed to Heddle Marine to undergo repairs and upgrades. The repairs took until

December 2016 to complete. In February 2018, Haida was designated the ceremonial flagship of the

Canadian Navy, now marked by the hois.