The Bluenose Trivia Quiz

Answer: Schooner

The Bluenose was a Canadian schooner from the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. She was a very grand racing ship as well as a very hard-working fishing ship. She was the symbol of the province of Nova Scotia. Her length was 49 meters (160 feet) and her beam measured 8 meters (26 feet).

Answer: Lunenburg

The great ship was designed by Mr. William Roue. Smith and Rhuland built the Bluenose. On March 26, 1921, she was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She was set sail as a racing ship and as a fishing vessel. Lunenburg is situated on Nova Scotia's south shores, along the Atlantic Ocean. Lunenburg is the location of High Liner Foods Inc., one of the largest fish processing plants in North America.

Answer: International Fisherman's Race

William H. Dennis donated a trophy for a race that involved working sailors. The race was called the International Fishermen's Race. The "Bluenose" was financed by Captain Angus Walters along with four Halifax businessmen at a cost of $35,000. The "Bluenose" completed a successful fishing season on the Atlantic Banks, proving that she was an excellent sailing vessel.

She won the 1921 Canadian trials over seven other competing schooners. The American trial winner was the "Elise" which was captained by Marty Welch.

In late October, two races were held and both were won by the "Bluenose" which brought the International Fishermen's Trophy back to Canada!

Answer: Struck a reef

On January 28, 1946, "Bluenose" the grand champion struck a reef in waters just off Haiti. She was terribly wrecked, completely beyond repair. All lives aboard the mighty ship were saved but her glorious era of sailing history came to an end.

Answer: As a memento to fishing schooners

"Bluenose II", was built in the same Lunenburg shipyard as the "Bluenose" was built. This sailing ship was launched on July 24, 1963. She was launched as a memento to the golden age of fishing schooners which had competed for the International Fisherman's Trophy.

The original Bluenose was commemorated on a Canadian fifty cent stamp in 1928. The original "Bluenose" has her likeness which can still be seen today on the Canadian ten cent coin.

Answer: Nova Scotia brewers

The Oland Family, John James and his wife Susannah, along with seven children, traveled from England to Nova Scotia in 1865. Susannah started to brew batches of an old family recipe of beer. Friends and neighbors of the Oland family convinced them to open a brewery, which they did in 1867.

This brewery opened in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and was called "the Army and Navy Brewery" due to the majority of its clients. Three years later John died in an accident and Susannah unable to manage, lost the brewery to a local Halifax businessman. Susannah later received an inheritance from family in England in 1877 and was able to buy the brewery back.

She renamed it "S. Oland Sons & Company." Today the brewery is known as "Moosehead Breweries" and distributes to fifteen countries, including all fifty states of the U.S.A.

Answer: All of these

The beautiful "Bluenose II" serves Canada as a goodwill ambassador, as a Lunenburg tourist attraction and as a proud symbol of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. In the summer months, she visits many ports around Nova Scotia. "Bluenose II" also sails, quite often, to other ports on the eastern seaboard. To operate the ship, funds are raised by charging for passage on this grand sea vessel.

There are public donations and also sales in the "Fisheries Museum Gift Ship" in Lunenburg, which is run by the "Lunenburg Marine Museum Society."

Answer: Stan Rogers

Stan Rogers honors both the "Bluenose" and the "Bluenose II" on his folk albums, "Turnaround" and "Home in Halifax." Stanley Allison Rogers is a Canadian folk singer, born in Hamilton, Ontario on November 29, 1949 and died in Cincinnati on June 2, 1983.

Stan Rogers made his U.S.A. debut in 1978 and appeared in folk clubs and at festivals. His popularity spread through the New England area, Chicago and Los Angeles. He had also performed in Scotland, representing Nova Scotia at the "Gathering of the Clans" in 1981. On his return home from the "Kerryville Folk Festival" in Texas, he died on an Air Canada DC-9 at the Greater Cincinnati Airport, when this aircraft caught fire.

Answer: Nova Scotia licence plates

Under full sail, the "Bluenose" is portrayed on the 1929 Canadian Bluenose postage stamp. She is also on two other stamps issued in 1982 and 1999. The "Bluenose" also appears on the current Nova Scotia licence plate. A generic schooner, shown on the reverse side of the Canadian dime, has been viewed as depicting the "Bluenose", for years.

In 2002, the Canadian government declared the image of the schooner, on the back of the dime, to be the "Bluenose".

Answer: Nova Scotian love of the word

Some examples of the name "Bluenose" include a Halifax, Nova Scotia based magazine called the "Blue-nose" (1853), a Digby, Nova Scotia newspaper called the "Bluenose" (1860s-70s), an express train operated by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway (1891) called 'The Flying Bluenose', and the Bluenose Gold Mining Company in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

Over time, the word "Bluenose" became a loved term which was unique to Nova Scotia and Nova Scotians. The term was really quite synonymous with Nova Scotia and its people. Due to the uniqueness and love of the word, "Bluenose" was chosen as the name for the vessel of Nova Scotia's dreams.