Canadian Naval Technical History Association (CNTHA)

Preserving Canada's Naval Technical Heritage

We are pleased to welcome previous visitors and newcomers alike to the Canadian Naval Technical History Association's new website. You will find a number of changes have been instituted during our absence from the Internet - changes that we believe will make the site more interesting and useful to you - our visitors. First of all, we have made use of open source content management systems software that will permit CNTHA to provide a modern and more readily managed website.

Technical inputs wanted: CNTHA is looking for information associated with Naval ship systems and equipment starting in 1930. Our volunteers are processing such information for archiving by DND's Directorate of History and Heritage. So if you have some information tucked away somewhere you feel might be of interest to CNTHA and DHH, please get in touch with us. Send an email to the CNTHA Executive Director or to the Webmaster.  In addition, if you have a story to tell, we would invite you to join our Oral History Project and be interviewed. The transcripts from interviews thus far can be found on this site following the link above.

The CNTHA Forum: We all can exchange ideas and offer support for CNTHA and our Working Groups by entering our Forum. To do so, it will be necessary to "sign in" - an administrative step that will help control access to the Forum. Simply go to our Forum link on the Menu bar. The Forum page contains a link to the "sign-up" process and explains the use of the CNTHA Forum. There is no cost for access to our Forum and other more extensive information on this site.

Photo Gallery: Our new Gallery contains photos taken at CNTHA events and as contributed by CNTHA volunteers. As photos are received, this Gallery will expand to accommodate those photos. It is to be noted that captioning is very much a work in progress. On this page is a photo of a Patrol Frigate at speed taken from a presentation made by the CNTHA Chairman to the Ottawa Branch of the Naval Officers Association of Canada on November 3rd, 2008. The entire presentation is posted to this site under Other Publications.

CNTHA would encourage our visitors to let us know if there is a feature you would like to see included in this site and we will do our best to meet your needs. It is important to recognize that this site is being developed and operated by volunteers and thus there will be practical and financial limits to what we can accomplish. Send your emails to the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or put a note in the CNTHA Forum.