Researched by Lawrence Charnell, owner of the NAHANNI and Kenn Whiteman, President of the Port Alberni Maritime Heritage Society in 2018 Imagine if you will that you have been transported back in time to 1941. Imagine as well that your mode of travel to Ucluelet on Vancouver Island consisted of a ferry ride from Vancouver to Nanaimo, a bus to Port Alberni and finally a five hour journey by steamer down the Alberni Canal. Roads that could have connected Ucluelet with the outsi

Flower-class corvettes were one of the premier convoy escorts of WWII, boasting a wide range of useful weaponry for engaging enemy submarines and aircraft, despite the class’ flawed structural design. The HMCS Alberni was known as a modified flower-class corvette and served as one of the most state-of-the-art convoy escorts during WWII. She was most prominent during the Battle of the Atlantic and the D-Day landings in Normandy, but was eventually sunk by a torpedo on August 2